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 112)

1666

crazyewok

on Jun 20, 2011

I signed up to matis. Login crazyewok. Just waiting for a add...

1667

MuslimKid

on Jun 20, 2011

can you update it for entrenchment 1.051

1668

Whiskey144

on Jun 20, 2011

MuslimKid

reply 1667

can you update it for entrenchment 1.051

Harpo's mod updater is fully capable of doing so for you, if you, like me, chose not to join Mantis and get the SVN release.

1669

Evaders99

on Jun 21, 2011

Yes, the SWR server is down. Will let you know when it's back up.

1670

Evaders99

on Jun 29, 2011

Website, forums, Mantis page, and code repository are back online! Woo

http://www.swrebellion.com

1671

Heero_Miiyamoto

on Jul 02, 2011

Could someone re-walk me through the process of getting my SOGE Mantis ready? I had to get a new laptop. I was smart enough to back up all of my game data and mods....just not Mantis. So, yeah, kinda lost.

on Jul 03, 2011

on Jul 09, 2011

Evaders99

reply 1662

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.

yeah now that i look at it from that perspective and have played farther into the game and realized how big the fleets can be. i realize there is really many other ways to do it that are practical this late into development.

as a side note anyone play this online??? would love to play a few multilayer matches even if its against ai.

also i just signed up for a mantis account. how do i go about applying for the beta.. figured i play this mod enough i should help out where i can

Edit:nvm found it

1674

Lavo_2

on Jul 09, 2011

I'd love to do MP. It's really the best way to see if things work, more so than AI, as one can truly see things in action, and more importantly, it's fun!

1675

Heero_Miiyamoto

on Jul 16, 2011

Thank you very much, Evader! Now, if you'll excuse me...I've got some Rebel scum to take care of.

1676

Heero_Miiyamoto

on Jul 17, 2011

It's not working properly Every time I try to load the mod it just minidumps TT_TT!

Although, during the updating process, I did see a LOT of read flash by...

1677

Lavo_2

on Jul 17, 2011

Heero_Miiyamoto

reply 1676

It's not working properly Every time I try to load the mod it just minidumps TT_TT!

Although, during the updating process, I did see a LOT of read flash by...

I'm on revision 588 with checksum 869073851 and loading just fine. Can you tell me what revision you are on and try updating/running the mod again?

1678

Heero_Miiyamoto

on Jul 17, 2011

I'm on revision 588 and the checksum is 612399481.

Like I said, there were several errors that occured while updating it.

To be precise: the rusty planet texture and the crystal planet texture. it's saying that an unversioned file of the same name exists?

1679

Lavo_2

on Jul 17, 2011

With that checksum, it's clear you're missing a helluva lot of files. There's something very, very wrong on your end. Try updating it again, and if that doesn't work, you'll have to do a clean install of SoGE.

1680

Heero_Miiyamoto

on Jul 17, 2011

Still nothing. Remind me again how to do a clean install TT.TT

EDIT: Nevermind, I just took out the old file, made a new one, and updated it through SVN.

This is takin foheva! But I suppose that's beause great things come in massive packages, eh?

(sexual innuendo intended)

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