Ah I see;

76157214

is the checksum.

Yes it's the only mod enabled. I will reinstall.

I have downloaded SoA203E1 in an attempt to update it with 3e.101

SoA203E1\Textures\Curry-cl.dds. Corrupt.

So, I redownloaded Sins, Entrenchment and the Converted file from

http://www.gamingvault.net/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=137

Graphics have been put down to medium, and then low. Still minidumps from 2 or more AIs.

Hello SOA2Team,

First off I want to say that you guys have a very nice mod, the models look great and the sound effects are really nice. I’m a long time Hugh fan of the Trek Universe and have been waiting for a good trek game like this for a long time.  Sins is a perfect engine for this mod.

Please don’t take this wrong in anyway but I have cone concerns and issues with some of the things I have seen in your mod thus far.  First off I’m unsure as to why you all decide to use the Unity for the template of the Federation when the TEC seems to be more fitting.  This is especially noticeable with the Starbase, and Ship Yards.  The TEC style is more fitting and matches up to how many of the Federation ship yards look.  You guys went to a  lot of trouble making new ship models so at this point maybe you are also making some new ship yards and a Fed Starbase?  If not in my personal opinion I would have used the TEC.

Another issue I ran into was the lack of repairing that seems to be in the game, your repair ship does not repair unless forced to by clicking on the desired unit needing repair.  I know how to fix this; I had the same issue in my mod when I gave the repair ability to my Carrier.  If you all don’t know how to fix it I’ll tell in a later post.

The Starbases Armor seems to be very low. The 3rd wave of pirates came and the wasted my Starbase like it was a starship, I see that you have increased the attack power of the pirates by a lot.  Starbases should never be able to be taken down that easily.  Again I realize that this is a ongoing beta. So this is an observation.

Tech tree research, while I do understand you are trying to make it more challenging, I was kind of taken back at how some of the tech was in the Tier 8 part of the tree.  Especially the Upper elite Starships, Is there really a need to be putting those Starships at a tier 8 research?  Personally I would rather have those ships more readily available early on.

On research gain, don’t you guys think that only one level of research is kind of lacking on phaser upgrades, armor levels, Photons and laser tech? I think each of those should at least have 2 levels or research, one level seems way too little and pumping it up 2 levels does not really make a big difference. And if all races had the same levels this does not throw off the balance.

There was a few other things I noticed but I’ll let this stand ad is for now, I, looking forward to hearing back from you guys.

Again this is a really awesome mod so please don’t take my comments out of context. I’m merely seeing some things that I’m concerned about.

Sorry for the green text, but Stardock uses some funnky way of doign their text and if you spell check it and paste it back it totally messes the whole format up.

Thanks guys!

Strange, just played a large multi map, and no minidumps... I give up.

will the romulams be able to cloak a starbase that would be cool

Hey,

Thanks for the info, but after reading Skimmers post, I cant help feeling that this project my suffer others also quiting. This would be sad because you guys have something really nice going.  But if what you all say is true that everything will be replaced that would be awesome. 

Rick

He needs a break BADLY with good reason judging from the last few pages here.

I just pm-ed him, and told him to take a breather for a while. Step back, and collect your thoughts, and if you decide to continue then great. I always said RL comes first. Myself getting stressed over this is one thing, but my TEAM getting stressed thats where i draw the line. You guys are treating this project like it is an EA, or Relic game, and demanding it to be flawless. IT IS A FLIPPING MOD. Made by Amatuers! Who dont know how to code c++. Who can barely understand how this game works!

I honestly think that the patch 1.041 is unstable. I think this because ever since i patched i have been getting dumps playing the VANILLA game. Ether when i exit, or randomly duing play. Just like you guys are playing the mod. I will send my vanilla dumps to IC to see whats going on. It does it on both my machines. One machine has 4 gigs of ram, but i downgraded it back to XP 32 bit. The other machine has only has 1 gig of ram so i think its the 2 gig ram bug coming back to haunt us. That is SINS fault. Not the mods. I am testing this theory right now to confirm this. You guys should be too.

Update 0.3E2 is not scrapped, but it is gonna take a bit longer than expected due to the circumstance. Plus we are going over the converted download to see WTF is going on. Some get the no curry texture bug. while others who download the very same file do not. That tells me you got a corrupt download. Re-download it again, and if it doesnt work you will have to wait till we figure all of this nonsense out. Remember we are NOT programmers. We are a bunch of guys like your average construction worker who got together to do this as a HOBBY on our free time. Lets treat it like a hobby, and cut my crew some slack.

I am very much looking forward to REAL CLOAKING SHIPS.

Especially since I the Romulans.  They're so passively agressive and cunning.  The Klingons are fun, but the Romulans are easily my favorite "enemy" as far as Trek goes.  I can't wait to play them.

Darksxx:

One of the Curry's textures in the original archive *is* corrupted.  This is known and was fixed with the patch.

Confirmed. The Curry texture is STILL bugged. It will be fixed in the next update. It is missing its specular channel. It is not a game crasher for me, and i get no error on dev.exe for it. That doesnt mean another person with an "older" card, or maybe even the newest card wont have crashes.

Not having a team color, or specular channel in a texture should NOT be a game crasher. It just shows up as whatever team color i chose throughout the whole ship on my game (another bug we thought we fixed). The curry texture is the correct resolution (1024x1024).

Textures being odd sized however just may be the game crasher, and i know we got some odd sized textures. They didnt crash the game before, but since the game updated there has been some issues with the odd sized textures. So again we will go over every single texture to make sure they are compatible, and in the correct resolution with the updates.

I still suspect it is a problem with patch 1.041 itself. We didnt have any of these issues (except the curry bug) before the new patch.

A tool that will translate the jibberish that are the minidumps will most certainly help us all (not just SoA 2)