Forest worlds should have a bit more health than normal terran worlds, due to the fact that they are completely covered in forests and foilage, which would slightly postpone any toxic effects from nuclear attacks from space etc, if you know what i mean
And perhaps a tiny bit lower popcap than terran planets (hey, its hard building cities around trees compared to an open grass field/savannah etc)?



AWESOME mod btw
I do wonder something, which i hope you will add sometime.. More stars..
We now have red stars, yellow stars, blue stars and green stars.
Could it be possible to increase the grav well for them? Relative to their type?

White Dwarf
Would have a tiny grav well, and a small mesh. Still has to be clearly white tough, not grey, obviously
Yellow
Same as the one ingame currently.
Neutron Star http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star
Insanely tiny, as small as a city, but a gravwell like a normal star. Perhaps some sort of uber-tiny blue/violet mesh could represent it? With jets from the top-left and bottom-right if possible, rotating in 1 sec, fast as hell..
Green (some stars, our own sun included, emits some green light as well, tough our eyes interpret it as white because its so luminous)
Same as the one ingame now. Slightly bigger gravwell than a yellow or neutron star?
Black Hole
A "normal" sized black hole, gravwell of a size between Green stars and Red Giants. Perhaps borrow the wormhole effect, or since there is no star to feed on, it should be completely invisible. Hence basically just a gravwell with no star at all Or a tiny black sphere or whatever.
Red Giant
Much bigger mesh than the Yellow or Green stars, much bigger gravwell.
Violet (some white stars emit ultraviolet light, even tough we cant see it )
Pretty much the same as Blue Giants, just for some color variation.
Blue Giant
A bit bigger than the Red Giant gravwell, tiny bit bigger mesh?
Wolf-Rayet Star http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf-Rayet_star
Pretty much a giant star with such strong solar winds that it rapidly looses its mass, until eventually collapsing into a black hole. Ingame it could be represented by a somewhat big mesh, a bit smaller than a red giant, but a new wild chaotic corona effect wisping around

I also have not seen any of the new planets except in the galaxy builder. Hope you can fix this soon because the new planets look great and the new bonuses really continue to diversify the game. Also wanted to say the two new urban planet textures are amazing, hopefully you can continue to add more planet textures. That said great work.

To somewhat patch Uzii's new update, go to his...

GameInfo folder, then open up GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef

Find the lines...

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planetType
designName "WeightedNonIce"
designStringId "IDSGalaxyScenarioTypePlanetWeightedNonIce"
orbitBodyTypeCount 20

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You'll see a bunch of planets listed under orbitBodyTypeCount.
Add in... Don't forget to increase orbitBodyTypeCount by 4.

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orbitBodyType "Industrial"
orbitBodyType "Military"
orbitBodyType "Toxic"
orbitBodyType "Paradise"

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Then repeat with some of the other planet types, such as "WeightedRandom" and "WeightedColonizable".

There are probably another few areas to add them in, even not add them in depending on the selected type, but I really just added them in to a few of those for a quick fix.

Hope this helps until Uzii gets back.

I'm a little confused, so 1.2+ is not fully compatible with 1.03?

Right, this is going to be a big post:

@ ArtificialIdiot
No idea, sorry man. I suspect not, but I could be wrong. The best thing I can suggest is try it. If it doesn't work, no matter. If it does then great. After I've sorted out a few things, and it doesn't work with 1.02 anymore, I will release a 1.02 compatible one.

@ brokenguns
Strange. You don't need to copy in the texture files like before, that may cause a crash. But other than that, I can't really help you, it loaded up fine on my PC. Might I suggest downloading again and deleting all Sins Plus folders, then install it again, from scratch. Also, you may need 1.03 in order to play S+1.2.

@ eviljim
Yes, I admit, I forgot that. I will add them to the relevant categories and update later. Thank you for the info.

@ Baleurion
I changed the Forest worlds for S+1.2, and I do agree with the increased health, good point. However, they already do have a smaller pop-cap than Terran worlds, so that will stay the same.

Stars are something on my 'To look Into' list. I will probably change their abilities, different stars with different Anti-Matter regen bonuses, and possibly their move radius, but making new stars is not a priority at present. Maybe in the distant future.

@ Zelfster and Komrade117
Yes, you are correct, and as above mentioned, I will update that minor snag soon.

And thank you Zelfster for that little temporary fix, much appreciated.

@ Bubb9
I hate to say this, but clearly you have made an mistake somewhere. I, and others can use this mod without those errors with 1.03.

Double check you have installed everything correctly, and make sure you are definitely using 1.03.

@ Fullmetaljester
Simply: Sins Plus 1.2 is compatible with Sins of a Solar Empire 1.03.

Complex: However, any changes made by 1.03 to files used in S+1.2 will not effect the game as they should do. Say 1.03 changes the Terran planet max pop-cap to 300, instead of 280. You will not get that change in S+1.2. You will still have Terran planets with 280 as their pop-cap. But, if the change was made to a file not altered in S+1.2, then you will get that change. These will be unit stats changes etc. I hope that makes it clearer.

@ Deckard666
Please make sure you have installed it correctly, and are using Sins of a Solar Empire 1.03.

Thank you all for the feedback, I will alter 1.2 now to incorporate the new planets into random maps, and slightly increase the planet health of Forest Worlds, probably by 1,000.

Edit: Sorry missed Radtoo
@ Radtoo
I will look into that, thanks for the link. And yes, I was not entirely pleased with him using my textures, just slightly altered for his planets. Although he gave me thanks on the Stardock forum, he didn't in this one. But, to be honest, I wasn't overly impressed by them, they seemed very... odd.

Uzii,

Any plans to update your wonderful mod to include changes such as these from the 1.03 (and future) patch?

@ Lurker1336
Ah, I don't use Gimp, but it sounds like its using the Alpha channels with the texture, and not separately like Photoshop does. Search Google for a way to view the Alpha Channels and RGB Channels separately, maybe in different windows or boxes.

@ jdhas
Well, I didn't want to type more, but seeing as you asked;

The files modders use are in text format. The files the game uses are in Binary, this includes files from patches. We as modders can not edit the Binary files from this game and therefore need to be given the text format equivalents by the devs. These are what make up the 'Reference Data' folder in the Beta Mod Tools download. So, whereas we (the modders) have the reference data from 1.02, the game is now using 1.03 files and their changes.

Put simply, there is no way, at present, for use to edit the 1.03 files. We can use the Binary files, but if our mod has changes in them, we must use our files from 1.02.

I hope that makes sense, its just a matter of time before the devs release them, so bare with us/them

@ Deckard666
In that case, it appears you must have 1.03 installed. I'm sorry, and I will try to get a 1.02 compatible S+1.2 out soon.

Edit: I am uploading 1.2a now, this has to fixes mentioned above (random maps/forest planet HP)

Edit2: Here it is, Sins Plus 1.2a
Link:
Rapidshare.com

Basically, the only changes are the addition of the 4 new planets to the 'Random' Categories of the GalaxyScenarioDef file, and a slight increase to the Forest world max health. Enjoy.

I will now start work on a 1.02 compatible version. This may take some time, but should be done either today or tomorrow (GMT). Also, the forum is going to be fixed soon, which will be infinitely better than all these odd posts, for which I apologise.

*shudders* I hate double posting, but this is the only way to get the first post change noticed. BUMP!

The first post now contains the new link to S+1.2 and has some info on the new planets.

Oh, and for all you modders and anyone else who hasn't been able to update their first post recently, its fixed now. Thank you... whoever fixed this (devs/mods/forum techs?)

Edit: Ha, didn't actually double post after all

Unfortunately, as it stand, we cannot include more than one custom planet type for research. I'm not sure why, but it is a pain in the ass. Hopefully the final mod tools will fix this, when they are released.

So; The Toxic is in the same category as the Barren world, asteroid, etc, and can be increased with Improved Tunneling. The other 3 are closer to Terran planets, and so they are covered by that research. I know this slightly favours the TEC, as they can upgrade once more than the other 2 races, but it shouldn't effect gameplay that much.

And thanks for the positive comments

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I had yet to encounter a Paradise planet last night... stinkin' bad luck lol. Anyway, I have a question about it. Its stats are quite low so I'm guessing it comes with some trade income bonus, yes? Sort of like Forest planets (which I definitely like how you made come with that Valuable Timber bonus right off the bat.)

So, possibly similar to an Urban planet and Pirate base, you'll be building lots of trade stations at it? When I get home I was gonna look through the files to see which bonus it gets but I'm at work so I figure I can save myself the trouble of doing that and just ask.

Hey do I need to erase MOD v 1.1 after having installed patch 1.03? And do I have to erase MOD 1.1 before intalling MOD v1.2a??? How do I do this? THnks