Sword of the Stars

[VieVentar]

Anybody else out there know of this game?

The original came out in 2006 I believe, and the EP Born of Blood came out late last year, well I had the original game way back, played it on and off, rather enjoyed it. So picked up the collectors edition the other day, since it came with Born of Blood and a Novella based in the SotS universe.

Its vastly better than the original game, and that's quite something for me to say since I was virtually obsessed with it when it first came out. Of course the limitation of one planet per star is still there, but now its got a bunch of new weapons, economics, threats and a new race. Though admittedly I'm not a fan of the Zuul since they need constant expansion to remain in the game.

Also quite a few mods out there, despite a community of modders no larger than perhapse 20 or so. Even threw together a basic mod of my own, and begun looking into creating a trek mod for it. I can do the tech tree work I believe, I can probably get away with doing the weapons and coding for the ship sections. But I don't have the patience for meshing unfortunately, so I guess I'll get no further than creating the background bits and bobs.

Anyway, anybody else out there got it?

 

[Syf]

I have not played it. But if it's moddable, I'm sure others around here may have.

 

[Lord_Trekie]

I've played the demo but not the full version of the game, my PC could barely handle that so I doubt that I'll buy it until I build a new pc...

In retrospect though the demo was quite fun, I always got my rear kicked...

 

[Sqweloookle]

Got it, not as enjoyable as I thought it would be but then again it takes time to play and unfortunately that time I put into roleplaying elsewhere online.

 

[Excelsiors190]

i got it and BoB love it calnt get away from it but when i wonna mod one of the files to chainge the likelyness of getting a tech my pc freezes the file is to big id like to see a star trek mod iv seen a battle star galactica but id prefer star trek or maby even stargate

 

[VieVentar]

Excelsior, to mod it you need to create a new .gob file, which is just a 0% compressed zip archive, and add it to the the sots.ini.

[Modules]
Mount1=Broadside.gob
Mount2=sots_local_en.gob
Mount3=sots.gob
[Locale]
Language=EN
CurrentProfile=Profiles/Profile_Vie.ini

That's my current sots.ini, note that the mod .gob should be added before both the Local and main Sots.gob files, otherwise they override the mod for some reason.

You can also mount folders, saving you from having to create a gob file. Make a folder, with your mod inside of it, in the main sots folder. Then add a new Mount1 line like this

Mount1=Broadside/

the / must be there or it wont register it.

Hope that helps.

 

[Excelsiors190]

erm how do i do that ^_^

 

[Lord_Trekie]

Find your sots.ini file, should be in the base Sword of the Stars folder you installed to, then open the file in notepad and edit away just as VieVentar suggested. But remember to make a backup copy of the sots.ini file before you begin making changes...

 

[Excelsiors190]

oh lol tnx

 

[VieVentar]

Ah... ..forgot the whole "Backup everything!" warning.

My bad.


But anyway, that's how to get started, just remember to keep all the modified files in your mod folder in the same folders as in the sots.gob file. ie, maintain the file directory architecture, and you'll be modding away in moments.

A good one to start with is to create proper lasers, replacing the pulce ones in game with beams. Looks a lot better, and more colourful, especially with early tech stages of the game.

 

[Excelsiors190]

well i only wonna edit tech asin make cloak tech more likely for the terrans than liir and even wid all the help i still dont understand im well im a bit slow when it comes to learning i have to read over n over again to understand it

 

[VieVentar]

Ok then, open up sots.gob, go to the "Techtree" folder, extract the file "MasterTechList.tech" and place it in the main sots folder. Now create a new folder, call it "Mod" and another new folder, call it "Techtree". Put the "MasterTechList.tech" file into the "Techtree" folder, then put the "Techtree" folder into the the "Mod" folder.

Now, go to that file again and open it with notepad, look for the following lines:

tech
{
name 		"SLD_Clk"
allows 		"SLD_ImpClk 	RP:100000  	Human:30 Zuul:50 Hiver:20 Tarkas:30 Liir:70"
allows 		"WEP_ClkMine 	RP:120000  	Human:20 Zuul:50 Hiver:30 Tarkas:60 Liir:50"

ship 
	{ 
		section DECloaking
		section CRCloaking
	}
}

the "Speciesname:Number" bit is the one you want to edit, its a percentage chance of getting that tech. So if you set the Human number to 100, Humans would get Improved Cloaking 100% of the time.

 

[Excelsiors190]

---what do i open sots with coz notpad wont let me it says its to big its file size is 992MB (thats probably the reason i only has 27GB out of 200GB left)---

^^
ignore
i know now
and i know what you meen by extract lol i was so confused

i did my cloak edit now humand get it more likely than usual and to get it to work a have to put mount 3 Techtree/ in my sots.ini??right??

 

[VieVentar]

well you need to edit the existing lines, turning them from mount1 and 2, to mount2 and mount 3. The new line should go in the mount1 line. And the new line should be Mount1=Mod/

 

[Excelsiors190]

well now the file looks like this

[Locale]
Language=EN
[Modules]
Mount1=sots_local_en.gob
Mount2=sots.gob

so can i please have a more detailed explanation coz i diddnt understand it very well sorry

oh im useing the BoB expantion if it help of chainges anythin

 

[VieVentar]

Right, change those two lines so they read:

Mount1=mod/
Mount2=sots_local_en.gob
Mount3=sots.gob

 

[Excelsiors190]

ok i did that it looks like this now

[Locale]
Language=EN
[Modules]
Mount1=mod/
Mount2=sots_local_en.gob
Mount3=sots.gob

but it didnt work i made it so humans get 100% chance of getting cloak but when i played thier was no cloak