Star Wars: Sins of a Galactic Empire 1.0E (entrenchment)

Published on December 1, 2008 By EvilleJedi In Sins Modding

12/12/2009

Sins of a Galactic Empire (SOGE) 1.0e release for Sins of a Solar Empire Entrenchment
A Star Wars total conversion mod for Sins of a Solar Empire
12-12-2009

TEAM
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Models, textures, ship stats: Evillejedi
Abilities and tons of debugging: Psychoak (It would have taken another year without this help)
Swrebellion.com Web support and general debugging: Evaders
Interface icons: Ozwolf
SW Music: Pedro
Many many beta testers, many who didn't do a damn thing thanks to those that gave us valuable feedback!
Probably some other people I am missing, thanks

CONTACT
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Development website http://warlords.swrebellion.com
Development forum http://warlords.swrebellion.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=593&sid=d9baa3b5114c49929088ca5b1506e866
bug tracker http://warlords.swrebellion.com/mantis/view_all_bug_page.php
sins forum https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/331584

INSTALLATION
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The zip file should be around 225mb

Extract the contents of the zip file to your sins mod directory
Example for windows XP C:\Documents\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Entrenchment v1.041\
Example for Vista/win 7 C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Entrenchment v1.041\
open the game and go into options and select the mod from the list of available mods and then activate it.

THIS MOD HAS NOT BEEN TESTED WITH ANY OTHER MOD AND PROBABLY WILL NOT WORK WITH ANY OTHER MOD BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF FILES IT ELIMINATED TO BE STABLE.

The mod should be working fine if the only races you can select are the star wars races. If this is not the case you have not properly installed the mod in your mods folder.

NOTES
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This release is a compiled version of 1.0e, there are newer builds on the SVN, however these may be unstable or perform poorly, so download at your own risk

If you are in the beta test you will not need to download this file, simply update your SVN repository to get the latest version

This release contains fully playable factions for the Rebel Alliance, Imperial Navy, Confederacy of Independent systems and Galactic Republic

There are currently no star bases in the mod and the Civilian research has not been modified, it will be modified in the future

Since it is a total conversion this mod does not contain the stock races (advent, vasari, tech), this
decision is driven by the hardcode limits imposed by ironclad and by eliminating them makes the mod
much more stable. If you want the star wars races with the standard sins races check out
Star Wars Requiem at http://sins.imperial.cc/

If you would like to participate in the development of the mod we can definitely use your help!
However we are looking for skilled individuals to do development of many detailed aspects of research/ability coding and 2d artwork
and do not need general help. Please post on the development forum if you feel that you can help us.

Please check the development website for updates on news, new content or official patches

If you would like to participate in beta testing the mod you can post in the beta testing forum to get access, we are looking for testers
that will provide detailed feedback of items they find in the game into our bug tracker.

SOME STRATAGIES
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Planetary defenses are great starting elements to protect your planets, especially when upgraded, build lots of turrets!

There are a few planet hardening upgrades in the defense research, these are crucial if you want your colonies to survive.

Capital ships need to be protected before they gain a few levels, once they have a few levels they will become very potent.

The ranges for weapons have been greatly extended. If you want more epic battles move your ships into closer range and many
abilities and other weapons will be used by the vessels.
Remember even Admiral Ackbar thought that it was suicide to move so close to the imperial star fleet!

The Imperials focus on Heavy firepower, Ion weaponry and command and control. It is best to lead groups of star destroyers
with a flag ship. The Empire does not have a low cost colonizer, but the gladiator and ISDs are very capable. The Executor
really has no equal.

The Alliance is focused on survivability, the mon calimari vessels may not have a lot of firepower, but they will be able to
last the engagement. Mix the mon cal vessels with their other vessels for a mixed fleet and protect the Diplomatic vessels,
they have excellent high level abilities

The CIS starts off weak, but has some extremely powerful abilities after a bit of research, build lots of trafed II's at the
beginning and then progress to Lucrehulks with buzz droids.

The republic is based off of mass production of its vessels, use support vessels to supplement homogenous fleets and Lead the
fleets with a Jedi cruiser.

KNOWN BUGS
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Some abilities may not work exactly as described, may have conditional issues or may be over/underpowered. This is being worked
on and some of it requires Ironclad to release a new patch

Research costs have not been finalized, they will change in the future

Some ships may be unbalanced this will be addressed as we get specific bug reports

some descriptions are too long and cause the text to spill out of the description box, this is especially true on lower resolution
screens like laptop screens. We are working to fix this

On some ships it may be possible to zoom in to the point that the models mesh disappears slightly this is being addressed.

some vessels such as the subjugator and some fighters may have no texture or may have incomplete textures, this is being addressed
in future versions

Ywings are currently being displayed as bwings, this will be fixed soon

Some abilities or effects may require work, this is especially true of abilities like Sprint

Some icons are being reworked and will require some adjustments

Fighters fly through ships and bounce around, this is something that needs to be fixed by ironclad, it is an engine issue.

The AI likes to spam some ships, right now there is no fix for this.

Compatibility
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Entrenchment 1.041+ (until ironclad breaks it again)

model files and textures are compatible with older versions of Sins, however Ironclad made
many changes to the SINS code that require 1.041, if you want to backport the mod to a previous
version feel free, but it is a tremendous amount of work

Download Links
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http://www.filefront.com/15122655/SOGE1.0e.zip

Comments (Page 111)

1651

Ryuzaki777

on May 15, 2011

Yes error message quite a few actually.

1652

Ryuzaki777

on May 15, 2011

I have everything working perfectly I'd had multiple copies of the mod on top of each other... I'm assuming becuase when I downloaded SOGE 1.0 non beta it didn't add the files on to it as I'd hoped anyways everything is perfect, will be playing madly to find bugs. DDDDDDDDD I can't wait! I love doing this for you guys and for my own pleasure.

1653

Royalthief891

on Jun 01, 2011

i used the minidump fix, but it still crashes... do i need to reinstal the whole game?

1654

Lavo_2

on Jun 01, 2011

Royalthief891

reply 1653

i used the minidump fix, but it still crashes... do i need to reinstal the whole game?

No. If you are playing off of an old saved game (aka. one from before the patch) then that is your issue; simply start a new game.

1655

Royalthief891

on Jun 02, 2011

i did, twice.. first with republic and then cis. both times it crashed after about an hour.

1656

Lavo_2

on Jun 02, 2011

Royalthief891

reply 1655

i did, twice.. first with republic and then cis. both times it crashed after about an hour.

That makes no sense... Might I suggest signing up for the beta, here? I know it's a rather cruddy "fix" but 1.0E is simply unstable and I have no idea why it's occurring.

1657

Frobond

on Jun 14, 2011

love this mod....however everything is like epic epic tinny. i cant ever watch battles b/c everything is uber small and spread way out... there anyway to fix that

1658

Evaders99

on Jun 14, 2011

The size scaling of ships is designed for large SW battles. No, this will not be changed.
It is a huge effort to change the sizes of all the models.

1659

Frobond

on Jun 14, 2011

okay most of the time i feel like im having to watch zoomed out b/c the ships are like 100k apart when they fight and cant be seen on the screen at the same time till you zoom way out and cant see anything but the biggest cap ships.

im in no way a moder so for all i know this could be just as hard as resizing the models. however wouldn't it be the same sorta thing if you decreased the ranges at wich ships fight.. or would you have to change weapon ranges of every weapon to do that????

1660

Lavo_2

on Jun 14, 2011

They aren't 100k apart... That's impossible as the largest weapon range is 12000, excluding abilities.

1661

psychoak

on Jun 14, 2011

Exaggeration aside, its a legitimate problem though.

It's a natural result of having even marginally realistic ranges on weaponry. You can shoot someone from a quarter mile with a good scope, but you sure as hell can't make them out in detail without it. Either you play bumper cars with ships sitting on top of each other in a firefight, or you live with the reality that is perspective.

1662

Evaders99

on Jun 14, 2011

Hey Frobond,

Thanks for your thoughts. We do appreciate the feedback.

This mod is trying to keep some realism in space combat. Yes, I know, it's hard to do this in a fantasy game in a fantasy universe.

Most of the SW space battles generally involve ships duking it out at long range.
It isn't necessarily the way it is portrayed in the movies, where most battles are shown as starfighters closing a short range. Rather, this is more like naval combat.

This is the style that Eville Jedi designed. This is a game with an epic scale... ala, it isn't meant to be quick nor small.
This isn't EaW, Starcraft, etc.

Does this mean there are gameplay tradeoffs? Absolutely. Battles just can't be as engaging with 100 ships at close scale.
Keeping that game design in mind, I hope you see where we're coming from.
We'll always love feedback though, for anything we can change that doesn't change the whole game design.

1663

ZOCOM93

on Jun 15, 2011

Instead of making ships tiny, why not make everything else, like planets and gravity wells, bigger?

I've seen other mods do this and it makes it where ship models aren't eclipsed by icons to the point where you have to zoom in really close to enjoy them.

Otherwise, I like the mod, and will continue to like it until someone else comes up with another star wars mod that include Republic and CIS

1664

Whiskey144

on Jun 15, 2011

ZOCOM93

reply 1663

Instead of making ships tiny, why not make everything else, like planets and gravity wells, bigger?

They already did.

1665

Evaders99

on Jun 15, 2011

^^ What he said. There were several iterations of SOGE that played with scale and size. Ultimately what was done is in 1.0E and later

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