woah! thank you so much for releasing the mod again!!! Look forward to trying it out with my mates at a LAN party and maybe doing a youtube video if its playable enough.

First feedback which you can feel free to ignore is I got confused as hell with your downloads layout haha, but eventually figured out that the main download was in the middle of all those new and old updates lol, maybe it shouldn't be towards the middle of all the updates. I'd also recommend reversing the order. Main mod download first and then all the updates in order after it. Leave the old quickfix update at the bottom separate from the new updates with a extra message for people who might need that one though.

Suggested layout:

1 main 0.46a

2 0.46a-0.47a update

3 0.47a PBR update (and PBR required sins files next to it)

4 ---------- (separator)

5 old 0.45a to 0.46a quickfix

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Quoting TobiWahn_Kenobi,

reply 5278

done   

Thanks haha.

BTW I'm guessing the 1.93+ reference means steam users with the current version 1.95 will be fine too? Guess I'll find out soon enough lol.

Have you guys considered a ModDB page? I notice all the other big Sins Reb mod projects (Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, Mass Effect, Halo Prophets etc) use ModDB so Bablyon 5 and all your years of work deserve a presence there!

They host your downloads so you don't have to worry about dodgy temporary file hosts that disappear after a couple of years (eg mega). They host pictures and videos. Using 'articles' they have a dev diary blogger system as well which I use a lot for my mod projects as your articles end up on the front page in front of thousands of eyes. Your forums posts here with ship pictures could easily be combined and posted into these getting lots of attention (the work is already done it's just copy paste copy paste). You can also setup up control of the page to a team of admins so it's not just one guy (meaning if one of you drops out the others can keep running the page). As well as ModDB projects I also run on their sister site some IndieDB game project pages (FreeCol & Starflight Remake) too where I setup teams for the devs to all have control while I took care of the presentation/media posting that they didn't wanna deal with. So I've got plenty of experience with setting up ModDB/IndieDB pages and can offer advice and help if needed.

Sorry for delay. Ill subscribe to this thread to ensure I don't miss any more replies!

Cool! Yeah go for it mate. If you have any troubles let me know as I was able to recently regain control of the FreeCol project IndieDB page for the new team (old team was long gone so page was abandoned) so I could message the same admin who helped me out last time. Hopefully we have control as I notice whoever had control in the past disabled non-admin image/video/file uploads so we can't add anything to it without full control access sadly.

Oh absolutely. I certainly wasn't suggesting project activity move over there. Having a page there merely supplements what you're doing here and helps get more exposure and more exposure doesn't just bring fans but more helpers too! Plus forums on ModDB/IndieDB aren't that great anyway, this place is much better for chatting.

Anyway once we've got control I can help you guys make it look nice like I did for those other fan projects I helped out on. If you guys have a number of favourite/sexy screenshots to put on there we should use them. If not my friends and I got the mod working the other day and had a game (which I saved) so I can try and take some of my own HD screenshots if needed as I had a big EA fleet including the Excalibur titan while my mates had cool Minbari fleets with their gorgeous looking titan (nice work whoever designed that).

Speaking of my test game my mates and I had a lot of fun, although yeah we realised pretty quick that the mod is still in a very alpha stage as most of the AIs did nothing and we discovered that building certain things (eg Babylon 5 itself lol) seems to crash the game.

Quoting Blake00,

reply 5285

Sorry for delay. Ill subscribe to this thread to ensure I don't miss any more replies!

Cool! Yeah go for it mate. If you have any troubles let me know as I was able to recently regain control of the FreeCol project IndieDB page for the new team (old team was long gone so page was abandoned) so I could message the same admin who helped me out last time. Hopefully we have control as I notice whoever had control in the past disabled non-admin image/video/file uploads so we can't add anything to it without full control access sadly.

Oh absolutely. I certainly wasn't suggesting project activity move over there. Having a page there merely supplements what you're doing here and helps get more exposure and more exposure doesn't just bring fans but more helpers too! Plus forums on ModDB/IndieDB aren't that great anyway, this place is much better for chatting.

Anyway once we've got control I can help you guys make it look nice like I did for those other fan projects I helped out on. If you guys have a number of favourite/sexy screenshots to put on there we should use them. If not my friends and I got the mod working the other day and had a game (which I saved) so I can try and take some of my own HD screenshots if needed as I had a big EA fleet including the Excalibur titan while my mates had cool Minbari fleets with their gorgeous looking titan (nice work whoever designed that).

Speaking of my test game my mates and I had a lot of fun, although yeah we realised pretty quick that the mod is still in a very alpha stage as most of the AIs did nothing and we discovered that building certain things (eg Babylon 5 itself lol) seems to crash the game.

Thanks, will try to make time to find the email from moddb and get access again.

Thanks for the roses, minbari titan is my work, made after the mongoose model, slightly adapted. As for screenshots - we had quite a lot over the years but feel free to make new ones as ours are very old indeed.

Yes, the mod is alpha still (because there are still basic features and models missing) and yes - the AI is the crutch of the game. Problem is that the AI is really dumb. It cannot comprehend a modded research tree or some ship roles not present and is therefore inherently limited in what we can do with it. And is as a result of this very easy to break. When I started this mod I had grand plans for the research progression and wanted it to really feel like Babylon 5. But my first idea which 2 of our team struggled for years  to bring alive was a failure on so many levels. Due to my ideas and due to sins. Thats the reason some mods completely abandoned the AI to be multiplayer only.

My only idea to overcome this would be to have player versions of factions and AI versions of factions. Player versions could have a really interesting research tree and AI factions have a very simple tree that is only limited by the time research takes.

Perhaps  someone else has an idea and the will to implement it?

Quoting Hael-sose,

reply 5286

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Hello there. Sorry for the delay; crazy times we live in.

Working on the Narn Regime at the moment. Here's two new ships. Using the Remastered mod saves a lot of work btw.

edit - it's the Sho'Kos on top of the G'Karith

Love em!! Keep going.

I found the old email and asked for handing over the project profile

That tech tree looks nice. Since you are a pixel artist you couuuuld help us with the icons and 2D artwork for sins   

If you like.

Thanks for the offer to care for our moddb presence. I was given access to a profile but it was a deleted mod. I have requested access to the still active profile for sind from GameWatchers which hasn't been updated in 10 years. 

as soon as  I get Access I will give you rights to do as you please

OK  guys, I've now got access to both of the Babylon 5 Mods on Moddb using our assets. Please send me your handles/usernames or emails for moddb so i can add you.

I would like you to keep  

https://www.moddb.com/mods/sins-of-the-younger-races

and use

https://www.moddb.com/mods/babylon-5

to just link to the other mod and otherwise cleanse that profile

Thanks

I was pondering what model to use for the Narn colony frigate. I was thinking about a version of the Tal'Quith, which is normally a freighter, but I've altered it a bit for the colony version. 

I like it!

I think I do though its been several years. "If I were a password, where would I be...?"