YAY 1.80

*downloads hastily*  Uhh, maybe a mirror would be useful, the new website downloads at dial-up speeds... '

I was getting 45kb/s, which I suppose is old ISDN, but effectively still dial up. I guess Moddb are taking forever to verify the upload over there.

Posting so it's in my replies list.

*Edit*

Ryat, probably should make a note in the op that this is for Rebellion and that Trinity can still be found in the other thread.

Ryat, Just a little update from my end. Downloads were a little slow the other day as my Mediafire account was hammered by everyone getting new versions of everything. 100 DS downloads and I have not heard too much so that must be good, I hope. I have started working on some fixes for a new Rebellion download . (1) Ship Graveyard structure showing a (da) Texture is fixed & (2) Looking into why Bailknights weapon effects don't seem to be working. I have noticed that the Capital Ship and Frigate entity files don't use the Bailknights weapon particle effects. Is this on purpose ? Were they changed for some reason? I Did activate Bailknights with DS and saw no difference in it, might be a RAM issue but not sure. I might try and remove the Sol System Planets to lighten the load just for some testing on that.... Need someone to start looking into the maps. I noticed some of them were causing some crashing because they were referencing some meshes that are not in game. Do you know If some were removed? I think It was the CB maps.

 Last thing is if there is a large call for a non-DLC version, it should be fairly easy to do once this version is close too where you want it.

I will fix this.

Pretty sure that's hard coded.

Already fixed this one. (my error in PlanetShipGraveyard.entity....IsAsteroid FALSE    should be   IsAsteroid TRUE )

Thanks for the Info !!!!

I was playing this solo,and having some fun with it, but on Med/Random map about 2 hours in... I was getting frequent crashes... specifically during a planet I was trying to take out. (Used auto save to recover, no corruption atleast)

I didn't see any mini dumps. Although this is my fault likely from trying to combine Distant Stars with Real Capital Ships Mod on ricks (I did use updated 1.8 verison)

- Gorillix

I'm not sure if this is exactly the problem, but I have a lot of people who want to use your version of Bailknights and Enhanced 4X together, and I have to tell them they can't (or rather it won't work the way they expect) because of the way you have it set up. In Rebellion, all the particle effect names were changed, and thus all my frigate entity files use the Rebellion names. Your version of Bailknights simply changes all the entity files to go back to using the old names, which will cause compatibility issues with mods that change these same entities to do other things. Either the weapons effects will not change if you load E4X first, or you get game breaking bugs if you load Bailknights first.

If this is also the problem with Distant Stars, the ideal solution would be to rework your Bailknights mod so it changes the names of the particle effects to the new Rebellion names, rather than changing ship entity files. That way when you enable both mods together, the Vanilla particles will get overwritten but the gameplay changes to the ships will be maintained. While I realize Bailknights may have tweaked some ship entity files as well for visual purposes, as long as the particle effects are correctly named at least they'll be loaded correctly even if some minor details are off.

Some really good points here. Bailknights wont ever really be a mod that you can run with another mod because of changes to the entity files including Volumetrics Race specific explosions. I will look into renaming the particle files though.

As far as the incorporated Bailknights not working in Distant Stars, that has been solved. The version of DS that I downloaded and updated included an extra's folder that has all the Capital ship entity files that were removed for some reason? They just simply need to be added back in. El Problemo Solved.

Ah yes, but, someone must have changed this not to long ago because when I updated DS, Gas Giants, Military and Urban planets were set to "linked planet type Asteroid " and I changed it back to Invalid and in the research had to add the new DLC planet types thus it is now showing 11 entries. So yes Lavo and Stant123 are correct.

We were/are going to redo the Capital Ships to give them back their power. Rebellion changed a lot of their stats and added new caps and titans so we wanted to do a better job of balancing them out. So we just put in the baseline entity files as a place holder. Great catch and fix, I hope to get the stats on them rebalanced for DS soon.

Boy, its sure nice to see the whole gang all here in this topic.

And Draakjacht.

Planetary Defences were developed when Capital Ships were stronger (see https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/450023/get;3417523 ), hence the issue.

Research tree modding is a bit limited. True we could add a little more variety but it would complicate matters more then help.

Also, you can use Uncolonizable as a linkedPlanetClass type.