The mods great i love it...no crashs woo! Im curious though as to if there will be updates? considering that the mod is a WIP i understand I dont mean to say WHAT DAY or GIVE ME A RELEASE DATE! im just wondering if the mod is getting anything new. I read about a map. which is cool i downloaded that 200 planet map linked above. Awesome gameplay so far on it. Doing Republic vs CIS and the battles are HUGE.

On a side note...any reason why the gravity wells are so big? When I zoom to see the whole battle...i cant see the ships anymore. The ships fire so far apart...the ai loses a bunch of ships before they can engage as a whole fleet.

Oh well. Love the mod keep up the work! I hope this doesnt sound like im dissing you guys either.

Ya, we're still working on it. I'm going to get the new planets in before working on more maps. it's easier to make them once than to make em twice. and they're going to be big. like the core is the smallest. though i'll make a 40, 80, and 120 whole galaxy map for those who can't/won't play on 300-1500 planet maps. ^^

Note: the mod files are text

The new stuff is in the beta test - New Republic and Yuuzhan Vong. They are highly UNPOLISHED but they are there.

Let me know when you have something to checkin NovaCameron - if you let us to distribute your work in the mod

I will. but I have to figure out brushes first... I don't know the sizes. So I have to try and guess them. then to work on more textures.... yay.....

Well shit...im running your 200 planet one right now and its running with perfect perfectness No lag either with the massive fleets running around killing each other. I know its a WIP but what is here is awesome. I Just had a republic and CIS skirmish...and the lasers were flying. All the fighters exploding and ships looked like they were crashing into each other and exploding. Only thing i have a problem with is the AI tends to run instead of stand and fight but thats not mod thats the game. But that is fixed in the Diplo version of Sins...so hopefully you guys will go in that direction.

looking forward to playing on a real complete SW map. I might not be able to run a 1500 map on full grpahix but i can do a 300

lol good. glad you like it. ^^ keeps me motivated to work on my planets so I can build up the whole galaxy.

The AI running can be fixed easily. keep in mind you'll have more plant textures to load soon... so we'll see how well large maps work. I hope it doesn't crash. lol I rammed sins plus into SOGE for fun and it was sweet, not too laggy. So I hope to blow SinsPlus out of the water with my planets.

Bahaha I used sins plus planets when it was a add on instead of required to play on Sins plus. They are pretty good and if you say yours are gonna be better then by golly lets see it

Well even if i have to load more textures the only problem i see is the 2gig limit. Which i hope...will either be fixed in a patch!? *please please please sins gods!* Or in a sequel. Sins and its tons of great mods keep me entertained while other games are starting to stray from modding community. Total war... >.>   I spend HOURS on this mod and i put 3 into the map you let loose so far. Gonna show it off to my family when they come to see what new games they should buy

Happy MEMORIAL WEEKEND!

just a thought, but have you guys considered working on adding in the old republic and sith empire from the KOTOR age?  With The Old Republic coming out soon it might be a good source for ship types. 

Another thing, I think the hyperspace speed should be turned up.  The only good star wars maps are going to have most of the well known planets and the best are going to be like the one thats on the download page now that have around 400 planets.  Its just impossible to feasibly patrol or move around such maps if all the planets are say in one system like many of the maps which makes that one system the galaxy.

and have you guys thought of a way to implement the imperial shuttle? perhaps the scout or trade ship?  Being such an iconic part of the empire it deserves to be added in somewhere.

another thing, nova have you thought about adding a yavin/bespin/endor variant gas giant?

the moons will be seperate planets from the gas giants. I'll make a huge mesh for the gas giants. I mean like HUGE. I hope to put in different planet sizes but i'll have to do more research on density, size, and composition. The current mesh is good for dwarf planets, like yavin 4 and endor's moon. So i'll put in Moon, Normal, Huge, and Super. Ice and Gas Giants get their own giant mesh.

We need to finish up the NR and Vong before moving back. But I have maps planned for wars going all the way back to the tionese war. Then once we get enough source material for Eville he can make new models but that will be in the future. The ships are slow... I know. Slower than they should be.

http://www.filefront.com/16597923/Gameplay.constants

Here. I made the ships faster. It works for my maps. They close way faster so they can use more of their weapons before dieing. So it's a bit more fun. You can move ships into point-blank range pretty quickly, and then watch the fireworks.

Shuttles not so much... Eville has trade ship designs but they are low on the list of things to do.

And that's the point. You CAN'T patrol. You have to think bigger. This is the galaxy, not a little valley where patrolling makes sense. You have to rely on turrets and light picket ships to hold attckers off till help arrives. That's what fleets are for, smashing attackers once they attack. You may succeed or not. Besides the temporary loss of a planet is just an annoyance on these maps. Unless it's a major hyperlane hub, like Brentaal, Corellia, Denon, Coruscant and the like. The loss of those major planets can really hurt your strategy.

Eville has models for the KOTOR era ships. But given there aren't a whole lot of them... and the fact they would be severely underpowered, I don't think they will work in this mod.

Gotta finish the other races first

Well we could make them cheap and spamable. Plus we COULD make our own... Once SW Old Republic comes out we can use those as a basis for KOTOR era ships. General ship design doesn't change much in 300 years. But the Great Hyperspace War or Tionese War era ships would be impossible I think.

oh yeah I'm more excited about new republic and vong but it was just an idea

I love that idea though of having the different planet sizes, sounds like this mod is really moving from amazing to awesome!!

Really though, guys even though there are some minor bugs here and there this mod is amazing! You guys have out done yourselves.  Best star wars RTS I've played haha

another question, nova, is there anyway to play on these massive maps without the game slowing to an utter crawl? even with the graphics turned down to nothing?

Turn off trade ships and skyboxes. You get a ton of trade ships after an hour or two and they serve no purpose. Makes finding your fleets easier to. Skyboxes in Sins are not realistic tbh. Just turn it off and use the deep space skybox. Those two things should give you a bit more room for your comp.