Where should I report random crashing/minidumping? Because I'm suffering both. Randomly.

Report it in the Beta Testing forum. Give as many details as you can, the more the better. Btw, the mod is something like 800 MB or so, iirc, which is why it takes awhile to DL.

Updating Diplomacy won't do anything to Entrenchment.

Hey guys thought id join in on the topic, gotta say, i love this mod so much, massive SW fan, and every week in my flat we have a lan game of sins, and this is our new mod of choice, ive noticed the seemingly infamous minidump error though, seems to always be much later in the game ive noticed when theres multiple ships/fighters, at most its 3 of us vs ai, and as i said the game runs like clockwork up intil the latter stages

If it helps the PC specs are as follows.

The weakest PC in the games is as follows, amd x2 5000+ 2gig ram + 7800 GT gfx card, the strongest is my pc, amd x4 970 cpu, 8 gig ddr3 ram, hd5750 gfx card.

Ive noticed when its just myself and my flat mate playing, (his pc is very close to my spec, but not as much ram) that the problem happens too?

I also tried the minidump i found floating around on the net, it made no difference.

cheers

1.0E is no longer supported; the minidumps specific to 1.0E have been fixed in the beta. However, I've tried something new just now, try and see if this patch helps at all. If it doesn't work all I can suggest is to get the beta. =/

I wonder, is this mod still alive? I've read there's a beta now, but last release happened some years ago, if I'm not wrong. I've also posted in "their" forums today (http://warlords.swrebellion.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=591) and got no answer yet. This mod still needs some things fixed. First of all the Y-Wing showing as a B-Wing is horrible really, but also in my opinion ship firing range are too high. Well that's not actually a bug, that's more like a "gameplay" choice, though just look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVrmoxzGD9U, look at Coruscant battle, look at how Republic and CIS capital ships are close; see Grievous's ship fighting against a Venator after Dooku's death, where cannons on the flanks shoot at the opposite ship at a VERY close range. I don't want the mod to have so much close range fights, but at least lower it, and set it at least as Sins vanilla standard, in which close range fights actually happen. If you put cinematic mode on during a battle you can hardly see the target a major ship is firing on, and it's even more ridiculous when fighter squadrons fight against each other: they shoot and hit but you can't even see the enemy fighter! Also fighters are way too fast, again, look at Star Wars Episode III opening scene and see how long a fighter takes to move through the whole Venator. If you pin the view on a TIE Fighter and see it moving across a Star Destroyer it doesn't feel like a huge capital ship is close to it. This whole stuff doesn't make the battle epics as much as they could be... I tried to find a way to edit this stuff myself, but I suppose I really can't unless someone tells me how to.

So, back to the main question, is the development of this mod still alive? It's a great mod, I enjoy it a lot and, if you put Star Wars music on the background while playing, it's really like being there with the ships in the SW universe, like you're living it. Not even Star Wars: Empire at War made me feel like that.

How would i go about trying to get into the beta mate?

I have no idea, I don't even know if they are actually developing the mod or they stopped it, that's what I want to find out because I love it...

As noted above your post, the mod team is still developing, and the current version is no longer supported. Furthermore, the "Beta" version is available forums, so long as you join up with the beta testing group.

WRT the gameplay choices, if you don't like it, don't play it. WRT your justifications via Episode III, you're ignoring the fact that the Battle of Coruscant was a special case. Grievous' fleet is escaping from capturing Palpatine (and presumably accomplishing other military objectives), and is then caught under the planetary shield, in a point-blank duel with the Republic fleet.

Considering the highly cluttered and crowded environment, is it no wonder that fightercraft would be moving slower than their maximum or nominal performance capabilities?

Essentially all work is done in the beta test - the includes the new races (NR and Vong), new maps, new planet types, new abilities, research tweaks, bug fixes. Hats off to Lavo and sloosecannon and others who are working it. However, we can certainly use more help and value the fans contributions. Absolutely JOIN THE BETA TEST if you want updates.

There's no release because it's not ready to be released. If the NR and Vong were polished and ready, we would consider it. But it's not... and that's not because there hasn't been work done. It's largely done by a small number of people, in their own free time. So if you aren't contributing, you really cannot complain. Getting added to the beta is super-easy - and we've made the download updates to real-time as best we could.

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On the battles, there is certainly room to work on. But absolutely portraying battles the way the movies do is unlikely, largely given those protrayals are largely small, close-quarter starfighters battles. To portray an epic scale that Eville wanted for the mod, we really had to go big

Whiskey144... No comment.

Thanks Evaders. In warlord forums... last posts are pretty much aged, I thought the mod was dead, considering the forum isn't much active, and last news in the website is dated March, if I remember well.

About the battles, I said I don't want them to be just like the movies, but I'd like to see maximum range shooting to be much less than it is now. The whole game atmosphere would benefits in my opinion, and would make the battles really enjoyable when turning cinematic mode on.

I will try to subscribe for the beta testing and, if you accept me, help the developers with bug reports and my opinions that touchy people think are accusation.

People who want capital ships with short range in space takes too much drugs imo.

Range is extremly important, that will always be true. You want to fire at your enemy from as far away as possibly and before your opponent fires at you. When i read short stories abouth cap ships engaging other cap ships from 500 meters im like "uhuhuhuhu" you will have advanced targeting computers and gargantuan guns on a huge space warship, why in the lords name would they want to engage eachother at point blank range when theyr guns prob can reach hundreds of kilometers. That would be like me walking up face to face with a guy i wanted to shoot, and only when my nose was pressed against hes did i fire my assault rifle.

People want different things ofc, its a matter of taste, but whats realistic will always be on the side of the people who want long range. Hehe.

Yeah that's true, but Star Wars universe was never meant to be realistic. And, as I said, I don't want to make capital ship combat so close ranged as SW III opening scene, as it is now though it makes the cinematic mode almost useless, if you want to zoom on a capital ship. Same applies to fighters combat. Making the maximum range as it is in vanilla version is fine to me, for example. Even if it was a bit higher than that would be fine, but as it is now the distance between enemy ships when they fight is way too much.

Also, I'm not on drugs...

EDIT: Finally, this mod main purpose is to simulate Star Wars universe space battles, not to be realistic. The priority should be to be as much as similar to that, to its movies first of all, and then going for realism. At least, find a good compromise between realism and spectacularity. Also, watching TIE Fighters one shooting X-Wings which are not even visible isn't realistic at all...