Over the Christmas holiday I got a copy of Sins of a Solar Empire from Steam with the DLC expansions included and now I’m looking for some cool mods for it. I got Distant Stars, which is ok…it allows for more levels for weapons and capital ships, though the capital ships aren’t nearly as bad ass as the old Capital Ships mod from the first game. What I’d like is mods that maybe give new ships or new skins, or add other features. They can be either for the original game, or any of the expansions, since Steam lets me choose which I want to play (I haven’t found anything fun in the Diplomacy expansion, but that’s what Distant Stars mod wants so that’s what I’ve been playing mostly). I saw some early info on some kind of Star Wars mod, but it didn’t look like it was done. Same with a Battlestar Galactica mod. Something along either of those lines that anyone has played and knows that it works would be great.
No takers, ehe? Ah well. For anyone interested, I found this one (it’s a mod that adds two new races, Empire and Alliance, to the game). It’s a Star Wars based mod. I haven’t tried it yet, so can’t say how it works, but I’ll give it a shot tonight.
Well, the mod looks cool, but it crashed within about 15 minutes on the first load. I’ll try it again, but looks to be unstable, at least on my system.
Last post…promise. ;). On the off chance anyone cares, there is a patch to the Star Wars mod. Basically it’s working fine now. It’s pretty cool. You can play any of the existing races or Alliance or Empire, as noted. The tech tree for the existing races are the same, but there is new stuff for the new races, and different ships and structures. The biggest thing is the mod needs something like the capital ship mod, as the capital ships are weak just like in the standard game. But it’s cool getting some of the iconic ships from Star Wars. Plus there is Star Wars theme music.
Over all I still like the Distant Stars mod the best so far, as it seems to add the most, but the Star Wars mod is pretty cool as well.
Sins of a Solar Empire is on my “haven’t played it but mean to” list. However, on another forum I saw people recommend the “Distant Stars” enhancement mod and the Sacrifice of Angels II total conversion mod (a Star Trek themed mod that lets you fight a Second Dominion War). And also this site with a bunch of Sins mods.
Ok, I lied…not my last post (I’ll post if others post to the thread). Thanks for the links DT…appreciated. That Star Trek mod looks way cool…I’ll give it a try tonight. I agree with that other board you are talking about…Distant Stars has been the best mod I’ve tried so far. It has a lot of extra levels for various aspects of the tech tree (you can level hull hitpoints, and weapons types 6 or even 8 levels per type instead of the usual 1 or 2), and it has some other new stuff like new planets and such. The capital ships are still a bit weak…I really wish there was something like the old capital ship mod where the ships take 5 times longer to build but they are massively tougher.
If you haven’t played I’d definitely recommend the game. To me it’s one of the best and most addictive RTS 4X type game out there. I’m having a blast getting back into it while I wait for Skyrim to get some DLC and modding love.
Loaded up the Star Trek mod. It’s pretty cool so far (though it crashed within about 15 minutes…I think you need to load a mod, then get out of the game, then reload the game. That seems to have worked for the other mods). It’s a bit disconcerting sending out the old Enterprise (Constitution?) class ships on suicide scouting missions though. I looked over the tech tree before the game crashed (and just for the Federation) and it seems cool enough, though a bit light on the armaments and heavy on the touchy feely type tech. From what I saw you can play the Federation, Romulans, Klingons, Borg and The New Order (I assume a modification of the existing race in the game).
