Whoa! 2 visits from Blair!  Take him up on it!

Anyways i have given my crew some time to figure out whats going on with our dev build of the mod. We are getting gs vector crashes. No error crashes, etc etc. If the problems keep persisting i will have no choice but to deem our dev build totally unstable, and nuke it from orbit.

I already started the process of completely rebuilding the mod from scratch using the 1.041 files as a foundation instead of converting older versions over.. Adding/Importing 1 file at a time, 1 model at a ime, 1 texture at a time, and testing it thrice over to make sure it all works. I already found another corrupt texture, and its the hud texture itself... u know the pretty lcars u see on screen. Dont ask me how it got corrupt. I am digging thru my cd's for a backup of the original psd. That was just porting the Federation core player files over without adding any models or weapon yet. So no doubt there will be more where this came from. I have no clue how this got so screwed up.

We have to assume the worst. The download we have above is no good, and will be removed. Sorry guys, but these things happen.

We are in the process of fixing everything. Once that is done we will post a new download. I know it sucks, but have some patience. We are on it.

almost have it corrected stress !! 

I'm going to start looking into the AI. Doing several very long galaxy takeovers on my own, then gonna play with enemies again. If it is the AI crashing it I'll try to find out what it is that's making them so very unhappy.

The mod has never been cancelled. Tho i do fess up to losing my cool several times during this mods run. Looking back i laugh at the infamous "major stress meltdowns". I could be worse... i could pull a christian bale on ya Oy! You got the Romulans in, ... OOOOOOOH GOOOOOD FOOOR YOOOOUUUUU! But half the ships are F***ing Backwards!!

Indeed this mod has been a lesson on patience. Just when we think we got it all together.. blammo!

Imagine what the dev's went through to "create" the game. We are just changing artwork, and mechanics.

Regardless of what happens. Be it we fix the existing mod, or we start it over again from scratch the mod will continue. Jtaylorpcs says hes got the existing version stable, and i am waiting to get the fixed copy to test. If it fails then we start over. Tho we are in far better shape for doing that than say like last year when we all were tripping over ourselves trying to figure out how stuff in sins worked.

If the stable version indeed works then we need to figure out why the textures are corrupting on us, and fix that problem. I think it was just one download of the dev copy too many, and an internet hiccup during transfer. Thats what they make backups for

I said in one post ages ago that as long as i am on the project as a project leader or otherwise the mod wont die. FFS's i founded this thing. Do you honestly think i would let it go that easily?

iv had no problems with it

If you're still interested, this seems to cover MD5 checksums and give the link to the freeware.  Seems as easy as installing a small utility that has context menu checking.  Archive the mod, create the checksum, and each time it's downloaded just check to see that they match.

http://www.wheatworks.com/how_to_use_md5_checksums.htm

I've been playing the latest patch and mod with no problem at all.  Haven't seen any corrupt files or screen dumps.  Guess I am just one of the lucky ones.  I'll keep on enjoying the file until he new one comes out

Great job guys!  I wish I had the "know how" to contribute on the mod! 

OK  can report that the developer copy is now stable!!! 

Ill go over all of the dev copys textures today, and replace any corrupted textures with backups, I will do the same, and replace 0.3e.101's corrupt textures. ill reupload 0.3e.101 tonight if i can with an updated readme as well.

EDIT: I fixed 0.3e.101 faster than i thought. The one dev.exe error that harpo reported is still there from conversion. I dont know how to get rid of that without rebuilding that version of the mod. Which is pointless because 0.3e.2 is close to being ready.

Here is the fixed 101  SoA 2 0.3E.102  Main topic updated as well

Fixed:

Replaced all mod textures with current dev build backup.

Team color issue: Fixed. You can now have team colors enabled with no effect on mod ships.

Curry: textures corrupted, and missing specular map. fixed

Akira: Odd sized texture leftover from old version. fixed

Kimal Odd sized texture. fixed

Miranda. Corrupted, and missing specular map. fixed

Phaser platform: had -da, and -nm textures swapped. In correct locations now

Skin_Tech: The Lcars texture is corrupt, and i have no backup so that one will have to be done over. The current texture works.

'IF' you get a corrupt opening movie just delete it. we are making a new "better" opening movie using the SoA 2 lore.

All other issues with this version will have to wait until we release 0.3e.2

Downloading the update now.  It's probably already known, but you have to be a member to get the new file.  I have no problem registering with ModDB, as it takes all of 20 seconds, but some may have an issue with it.  So I dunno if someone wants to put up a mirror or something.  At any rate, keep up the great work!

are the romulans now activated ?

Sweet.  Now we have a Star Trek game to play on ICO again! 

Also... I just noticed there seems to be a mysterious "entity" orbiting an asteroid here:
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/starskies/games/Sins%20of%20a%20Solar%20Empire/SoA2-EasterEgg.jpg
You guys really are too much.