Thats what I was missing. since I couldn't find any research tree mod tutorials, I assumed thats all I had to do lol.

thanks alot Fire., its working now wonderfully.

Edit.

Ok, I'm a moron, I launched the game, and for SOME reason, it does not load the mod, so I leave the game thinking, "hey, it loaded! that must mean it worked!" the mod was not loaded.

I've ran the game in Dev mode, and when I try to enable the mod, it gives me a error in the file "PlayerPhaseLoyalist.entity"

Text FileArchive missing Label.

File: C:\Users\Serial Fox\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.031 Dev\fgbjnhf\GameInfo\PlayerPhaseRebel.entity
Label: entityDefName
Line Number:221
Line Contents:    starBaseInfo

And It prompts me for a action such as breaking the proccess, or skiping. skiping does nothing, its like a open bracket or undefined loop in a program. , errors start at line 221 and continue to the end of the entity file.

Alright, I think I have most of it sorted out, everything seems to be linked correctly, my counts HAVE to be correct. and now I'm only getting  error, the original one, and only one prompt, i click skip and the game does a normal minidump and then exits.

Text FileArchive missing Label.

File: C:\Users\Serial Fox\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.031 Dev\fgbjnhf\GameInfo\PlayerPhaseRebel.entity
Label: entityDefName
Line Number:221
Line Contents:    starBaseInfo

I've tried deleting the file and moving a fresh copy over, but every time it gives me this one error.

clueless^^

My apologies for my extremely late response.

I have attempted to add to the total research subjects number, it starts at 147, so I tried adding one or subtracting by one, but both times it failed.

Im thinking its a open and endless loop in the file, as the line it indicates has not been changed, its the first field AFTER the research defined subjects area.

i honestly dont have a clue whats causing this, im pretty sure my math is correct, assuming adding one extra research subject equals adding one number to the total research subjects field, lol.

I see, well i downloaded a original copy of the referance files, and replaced the PlayerPhaseRebel.entity in my dev game folder with the original from the referance rules, I only added one line

 entityDefName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_WEAPONDAMAGE_WAVE3"

                          This is right under the other Wave 0,1 and 2 research in the file.

and I also changed this...

        researchInfo
        count 148 (ORIGINAL)

        To

           researchInfo
        count 149

thats ALL i changed, and it keeps giving me that one error.

Text FileArchive missing Label.

File: C:\Users\Serial Fox\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.031 Dev\fgbjnhf\GameInfo\PlayerPhaseRebel.entity
Label: entityDefName
Line Number:222
Line Contents:    starBaseInfo

EDIT.

I just tried localizing the problem, and I found that the error in the player.entity file will happen even if NO changes are made to it, as long as you modify the "entity.manefest" and add the research .entity file to the Gameinfo folder. quite odd, perhaps something is referencing the player.entity file OTHER than the Entity.manefest?

I expected as much. I added one line to the player research count in the player.entity and modified the count there, and added the new research to the entity.manefest, and modified the count there. it all should be linked correctly.

I'm guessing, that I need a modding tutorial. I've looked, but has anyone seen a research modding tutorial, or are those nonexistant?

Only tutorial on there is http://soase.x90x.net/?i=modding/UI-ResearchButton.html from ZombiesRus.

 EDIT:

Here is the thread with up-to-date direct links 

[Tutorials] Modding, Modeling, Texturing & Converting
https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/376221