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Reply to Obama just cut off funding to NASA??? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="Anthony R" reply="106" id="2523428"] The first miners on the moon will almost certainly be speaking mandarin If things keep going the way they are we'll all be speaking Mandarin soon. Unless they have better uses for us, like organ harvesting. [/quote] Yeah--and about the solar power (via microwave) to earth satellites...guess what else they can be used for? Frying other satellites in space, disrupting communications, possibly impacting wea

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Thanks harpo--let me play with it a bit and I will tell you what I want to do in the maps if I can't get a handle on it. Not faulting your experience at all. I deleted my template in my map, copied and pasted yours in, altered the template name and template and group number totals and--didn't work. Same with most. There is a GF version 1 map sample on the forum that works fine if I copy the entire map. If I edit a single item in it, the entire map ceases to wor

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I started doing them myself--I am aware GF can't render some functions (like the crash if you select planetracetype). I have done a merge--used GF then hand corrected. I have cut and pasted verbatim and cut and pasted with editing. There are several maps with working templates--for example--I can run the template Voruk's Labyrinth but if I edit or alter one character after pasting it in, it ceases to work. One from the wiki I can paste in as it is an entire world f

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

No, I am selecting FALSE for use default templates and then placing a custom template at page bottom and pointing in the planet desciptions to it--but it seems some form of the default templates seems to be "persistent". Not sure what I am missing. I want a map not a mod so others can play it without having to run it as a mod. I am getting the normal "militia" mix of ships in several of my attempts mixed in with some of the custom ones I want present.

Reply to Rant about ignorant arrogant players in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

My goal is to get good enough to To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentation of their women. Then I will be happy.

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Well...your template pasted in over my own template and rechecked at planets for group numbers and all, caused no ships to spawn again. I have gotten ALL the ships for ALL the sides to spawn as on one side, a mix of the ones I specified and militia (apparently) mixed with my custom choices al on each planet's player side but not JUST the ones for the specified race/tech. I haven't reinstalled yet but this is ridiculous. I wish I had saves of the ones I lost be

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Thanks--I actually made some progress just before this post. I set three groups for spawns relative to technology type and it worked--only all of the units appear rather than just the race specific one. I think I know why. I'll take your template as my past ones got sucked into the vortex with my vanishing ironclad folder today and reengineer them. Very helpful sir. kudos to you, kudos I say!" I think it may be info regarding the planet owners

Reply to Strange Things Are Afoot At The Circle-K in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Perhaps my time traveling disrupted the system. I'll ask Rufus to go back and do a temporal anaylsis of the machine's past. Be awesome to one another dudes.

Reply to Strange Things Are Afoot At The Circle-K in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yes to all the above. I had been using Galaxy Forge stand alone on my desktop and then just manually moved the maps there when they were done but when I had the Entrenchment suddenly stop seeing new maps I decided to move GF to the specified directory--no problem. The the folder vanished completely off my computer (along with the two maps I had in it). Puzzling because I have had no issues up till today. I'll uninstall and delete registry entries and the like then try a cl

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I got them working somewhat but it is on and off. They partly work--sometimes fully then stop. It seems the default templates in the entity files are overiding the scripted ones. I'll keep plinking. I have a 6v1 map and a 2v2 that require set starting bases. Only way I could make it happen and keep balance for the maps was to start at non standard worlds. I am trying to get the following to start at seven dead asteroids (I have them starting the

Reply to Help with GalaxyForge in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Green stars do exist...Blue, Green, White, Yellow, Orange, Red (in that order from hottest to coolest) are broad color categories (to keep it simple). If you want to get fancier, google/wiki "star spectral classes". Thanks for the weighted answer--was wondering too.

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I am still having mutiple issues with templates not working but on an off note, I created a map where players spawn with no homeworld at dead asteroids. I was told this isn't possible? If I can get the stupid templates working I'll upload it. Galaxy Forge doesn't show all the drop down options in the differnt fields in the template and will not (so far) save any edits in the map file that I make. About to do a clean reinstall see if that helps.

Reply to Strange Things Are Afoot At The Circle-K in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Lol--yeah...that's a thought for sure. Usually the vanishing folder is a trojan or worm type problem but I am fairly confident that isn't the case with mine (I do pc repair and build/installs freelance for years now). Things are rapid enough in that world now to never be sure though. I am interested if anyone else has any experience with things I mentioned though.

Reply to Rant about ignorant arrogant players in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Everybody can and should play with and how they like--but do it with people of a like mind. Meaning don't pretend to be a noob so you can get a noob you can crush to play you [smurfing]. Don't be a hypocrite and want only to play the best players but then let a noob in to even teams then snuff him and spit him out without a thought. Use a pass protected game good for both of you. If you are really good and you play someone who isn't--instead making it an atte

Reply to Obama just cut off funding to NASA??? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Great reply (heh--I don't smoke anything). I am talking about Mars from the standpoint of the science skeptic who would say, "What good does it do to go there?". I watched four hours on the Martian rovers. I think it is awesome But those opposed to space "exploration" for pure science and see it as a waste can be given more "practical" things that they can see the benefit in. I forget the name but a commercial space investment company a few yea

Strange Things Are Afoot At The Circle-K in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'm running XP(pro) and I went to \application data\ironcladgames etc. and saved a Galaxy Forge created map there--no problem. I then then planned to go to the game to see if it was indeed seeing the game file but wanted to check the name I gave the file. I returned to where the save folder location and the "Ironclads Game" folder was...gone. vanished--poof! My thought was, "No way" and I did a file search for the map I had saved (followed by a wildcard sea

Reply to Obama just cut off funding to NASA??? in Everything Else Sins Forums

You will not in your life time see Obama say, "Let's go to Mars.". Period. The Constellatiion program was a bloated technocratical debacle from its inception but its "there" now and that wasteful rocket is exacly the thing you will need for a Mars mission. I'd much rather see a small lunar expedition than watch a Challenger accident on Mars where people suffocate or starve to death because we did it as an experiment for "Wow" rather than build up to it as part of an actu

Reply to Rant about ignorant arrogant players in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

There are a lot of us here who play for fun. It's the teenage kids with lots of time ganging noobs with their buddies for laughs that causee a lot of this stuff. As to the guys who only play with each other--that's their little world they live in and it makes them proud. My suggestion is just to ask if someone wants to play a freindly game in chat and offer to start or ask someone to start a server. I have a couple of times. My first run in with these guys is

Reply to Obama just cut off funding to NASA??? in Everything Else Sins Forums

Short sighted to call space exploration and development "a waste". It is genuinely the next frontier and absolutely will generate a return in industry and resources--if anyone ever lays the infrastructure for these things. Budgetwise, its a drop in the bucket. The eight billion we are spending on a high speed rail connection would fund the shortfall in NASA's plans for the next three years. As to the poor and needy...a weak US economy is not helping any of them.&nbsp

Reply to Fixing the Forum in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I liked dominion too...and here's an example of exactly what I am talking about. Some one started this http://sinsmodding.dreamhosters.com . It's relatively new but it has definition and is starting fresh on a specific topic. Very helpful.

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Thanks! I hadn't found that one--very helpful. Galaxy forge does a good job usually of creating stable maps at least. I'll go tinker much now with the template part and see what I can get from it.

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Right--I was aware of those (but haven't messed with them). Just trying to get a basic cusom template working. I'm working on a map with mod-like qualities but that is simply a standard map so it can be played regardless of version. Thanks for the reply.

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Me either but every time I assume something like that it's usually followed by an "Oh Duh!" moment ;) Good to know.

Reply to Looking for Roleplay/Long game/Big maps in Multiplayer Organizer Sins Forums

I don't know if you mean me or Reaper but I'd like to hear from Reaper myself as to how its coming with his (If you meant me, thanks). I have mine almost done now. I am adding in planets and arranging them so each key system has its own flavor. I have a point value for each empire's resources and the strategies for each empire will be different. I have a couple of websites I manage and am going to create one just for the map I make. I can consider letting playe

Reply to Template Issues in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Thanks for the reply. I haven't used GF for a template yet as I wasn't sure of all the parameters required. I assumed by taking a working template and editing it one item at a time I could get a better understanding--no idea why that is not working. I'll try the GF idea. I haven't been modding or making major changes--just trying to get a simple custom template patterned after simple examples working. Unless they deal with entity files for custom-made items,