Advanced User Settings Explained AND Defined!! Rebellion Update

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OK I'm sure 85% of the people in this forum know where to find this file diplomacy.user but, for the last 15%

C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

at least for 7 users and pretty close for XP so you'll figure it out, I believe in you..probably

diplomacy.user  is the file you want to open in Notepad

Now here's MY diplomacy.user and all it's changes

TXT    <-----irrelevant
Version 204   <-----just as irrelevant
PlayerName "BadTune" <-----Says Player if you're lazy
PlayerThemeIndex 3    <-----The icon you picked
PlayerPictureIndex 107  <-----the 3 faces you picked
PlayerColorIndex 3        <-----your color, I think this one's yellow...or orange
LastGameAddressConnectedTo ""    <-----LEAVE IT ALONE
LastGameHostPortConnectedTo 6112
GameHostPort 6112
GameBroadcastPort 6000
EnableUPnPPortForwarding TRUE
VideoAdapterOrdinal 0
VideoIsWindowed TRUE   <---self-explanatory
VideoRefreshRate 60 <----Self explanatory
VideoFullScreenWidth 1024   <-----Self explanatory for ALL the gray here
VideoFullScreenHeight 768
VideoWindowedWidth 1024
VideoWindowedHeight 768
VideoMultiSampleType 0
TextureCompressionEnabled TRUE
TextureQualityForShipColor 1   <-------detail quality 0-5 0low   5highest   I play low end settings as you can see
TextureQualityForShipData 1
TextureQualityForShipBump 0
TextureQualityForModuleColor 1
TextureQualityForModuleData 1
TextureQualityForModuleBump 0
TextureQualityForPlanetColor 2
Gamma 0.500000
SoundMusicVolume 0.000000
SoundEffectVolume 0.080000
SoundDialogueVolume 0.050000
SoundUIVolume 0.000000

VoiceChatVolume 0.210000    <----steam chat option


SoundUseHardware FALSE
SoundStopWhenWindowLosesFocus TRUE
ChangeMusicVolumeInBattle TRUE
SoundStreamBufferSize 2000
IcoServerAddress "ico.stardock.com"
IcoServerPort 6100                <------things you have no business messing with...unless you're trying to break multi-player
IcoIsAccountNameSaved FALSE          Unless you have experience, know what you're doing, have a private server
IcoAccountName ""
IcoShowChannelPlayerChanges TRUE
IcoShowFriendChanges TRUE
IcoHostGameOnProxyServer TRUE
CalculateCheckSumTickFrequency 50
CalculateCheckSumDetail 0
SaveCheckSumSnapShotsInGameTickFrequency 0
SaveCheckSumSnapShotsOnSave FALSE
IsCheckSumLoggingOn FALSE
IsAutoRecordOn FALSE <--SHOULD have been an in-game setting. No more recorded games ALL THE TIME
IsAutoSaveOn FALSE <-----it makes hamburgers.......seriously....self-explanatory

IsCloudSaveOn FALSE <------Steam's online save junk...in game option


AutoSaveTickFrequency 900  <------didn't change this but I'm running out of colors, rate of autosave(in seconds)
GS_CREATE_GALAXY_FOR_FRONTEND FALSE  <---No more planets/stuff at game start, just deep space background(Me likes)
GS_MAX_NUM_DIFFERENT_PLANET_MESHES 5       
GS_NUM_WEAPON_FIRE_TARGET_VERTEX_PICK_ATTEMPTS 3
GS_EXHAUSTTRAILUPDATEINREALTIME TRUE    <----nothing apparent as far as I tested
GS_HIGHESTSCENARIOCOMPLETED -1
ModName ""   
PrimaryPath ".\"
SecondaryPath "..\..\DataSource\"
ShowIntroMovies FALSE <---No more "iron clad, star dock,Diplomacy motion logos" just solid images cutting load time
ShowOpeningCinematic FALSE <----------THIS is for the cinimatic"we hate envoys" movie DIFFERENT FROM ^ that one
NVPerfHUDEnabled FALSE <----I have a better clue on what jellybeans are made of than this thing(clarification:no idea)
MeshMock FALSE        <--------------------I think it could be the highlight mesh option, dunno though
ShowAsteroids FALSE
ShowElevators TRUE              <------more blue, yay, stuff i don't need to explain, it's in options in game
ShowDustClouds FALSE
ShowPlanetRings TRUE
ShowDebris FALSE
ExhaustTrailDetail 0.430000
ShowConnections TRUE
ShowInfoCards TRUE
ShowGravWell TRUE
ShowNames FALSE
ShowTeamColors FALSE
ShowMainViewIcons TRUE
ShowMeshPlayerOwnerIconAlways FALSE
ShowMeshTeamColor TRUE
IsEmpireWindowStacked TRUE
MaxEmpireWindowStackSize 50 <--Mines,strike craft, everything, now will be 50 instead of 10 on the empire tree save space
AlwaysShowEmpireWindowFleets TRUE
ShowEmpireWindowFleets FALSE
ShowEmpireWindowBackdrop FALSE
ShowEmpireWindowAllies FALSE
ShowEmpireWindowEnemies TRUE
AutoPinPlanets FALSE
AutoPinCapitalShips TRUE
AutoPinFrigates FALSE
IsAutoPlaceModuleActive TRUE
IsCameraZoomToCursor TRUE
IsCameraFreeRotateEnabled FALSE
AreMouseButtonsSwapped FALSE
ShowUserInputOnInfoCards TRUE
ShowTacticalGrid TRUE  <------------that's right, I build in the squares, bite me I like lines!! >=O
ShowCargoShipMainViewIcons TRUE
AlwaysAutoPlaceExtractors TRUE
InvertCameraHorizontalRotation FALSE
InvertCameraVerticalRotation FALSE
ShakeCamera FALSE
LastUsedPlayerDefName "PlayerPsi"  <------it knows what YOU were last session
SaveStats TRUE <--Saves your game options (quick start/pirates active/income speed and such)
SavePlayerStats FALSE <-----End game statistics....turn this off..it just makes a useless save file, unless you keep records
SavePlayerEconomyDetails FALSE <----same as above
IsGameServerMigrationEnabled TRUE
UseColoredSkybox FALSE
UseDeepSpaceSkybox TRUE
EnableAutoStrafe TRUE
ShowQuickNPCWindow TRUE
AutoStrafeAreaSize 2
AutoStartGame FALSE   <------Will start a game instantly by previous settings/records(probably not recommended)
MultiPlayerMaxPauseCount 10
LaggingPlayersToleranceForDropping 500
IsTextureBackgroundLoadingOn TRUE   <----ICO's "When I should drop 'em" settings for online. again, touch at own risk
IsWatchedFilesOn FALSE
IsPostProcessSceneEnabled FALSE
IsShipBrighteningEnabled TRUE
MaxParticleCount 6000
MaxParticleSimulationsCount 2000 <---- This little orange section has to do with the amount of weapon fire, debris, stuff
MaxAsteroidCount 10000                       floating about on screen at any given time (vanishing SFX happens after this MaxDustCloudParticleCount 5000           limit has been reached and such)
LastSinglePlayerSetupTab 1
LastSelectedScenarioName "DS-Voruk's Labyrinth" <--little bit of DS love here lol
LastSelectedBuildSpeed 1
LastSelectedCultureSpeed 1
LastSelectedIncomeSpeed 3
LastSelectedFleetSupply 1            <-----It knows what your last session settings were
LastSelectedResearchSpeed 3
LastSelectedShipPhysicsSpeed 1
LastSelectedAreTeamsLocked FALSE
LastSelectedArePiratesActive TRUE
LastSelectedUseQuickStart TRUE
LastSelectedDiplomaticVictoryEnabled FALSE

LastSelectedFlagshipVictoryEnabled FALSE
LastSelectedHomeworldVictoryEnabled FALSE
LastSelectedResearchVictoryEnabled FALSE   <----added with Rebellion, in game victory types
LastSelectedOccupationVictoryEnabled FALSE
LastSelectedAlliedVictoryEnabled FALSE
LastSelectedVictorySpeed 0


LastSelectedNumberOfVictors 1
LastSelectedDiplomaticPointsSpeed 0     <------ Removed in Rebellion
LogOutput FALSE
ShowErrors FALSE      <---------Stuff used/changed for modding....and some useless things I highlighted and colored
ZoomSensitivity 0.400000
SavedGameFileFormat 1
RecordedGameFileFormat 1
TiledScreenShotSize 5
LastSelectedIsBlackMarketEnabled TRUE

UseSystemCursor FALSE
FilteringType 0
ShadowQuality 0          <-------more rebellion additions, also in game changes
PlayCount 23
IsPlayerNameSet TRUE


And that's about the size of it, if you have questions about what some of this other stuff does, I dunno, only tested what I changed and some of it was just in other places buried in the forums so I'm probably as cluseless as you. Enjoy, hope some of the changes helps with the modding out there too ^^ especially for the mines   More editing to come, I added colors this time!! 

IT HAS BEEN COMPLETED!!!! sort of, enjoy your advanced settings

 

Legend:  Changed Values           In-Game Settings           No Idea of True effect   Record of last played settings  

  Particle display amount           Iron Clad Online DON'T TOUCH             Modder Stuff

Additional Notes: MaxEpirewindowStackSize  For the love of God keep this in 2 digits

Updated Notes:  Now with 70% less eye strain than before, yay=D

UPDATES FOR REBELLION: Ok, This STILL works, the settings file is just in a different place. Look under C:\user\USER\My Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins Rebellion\Setting and open rebellion.user in Notepad or Notepad++ The layout is EXACTLY the same as above.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

:omg: ... ... ...  \o/ !!!!

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Wow that MaxEmpireWindowStackSize is useful, good find. The show intro movies is an in game option btw.

Offworld Trading Company
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

nope, that's for cinimatic

ShowIntroMovies FALSE <---not in game, stops the iron clad, star dock and Diplomacy Logos at opening

ShowOpeningCinematic FALSE <-----in game, that movie about walls and armies and fleets and everyone getting pissed at senators

 

try it, you'll like it

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Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Very nice sir!

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Thank you very much sir! =D how'd you like my suggestions on your mine mod experiments?

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting BadTune, reply 3
nope, that's for cinimatic

ShowIntroMovies FALSE <---not in game, stops the iron clad, star dock and Diplomacy Logos at opening


ShowOpeningCinematic FALSE <-----in game, that movie about walls and armies and fleets and everyone getting pissed at senators

 

try it, you'll like it

Ah, well I stand corrected. I commend you for actually taking the time to go through and read everything in that file. ;)

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

no problem, and the Exhaust one i pointed out I'm kind of wondering if it represents the decay rate of the trails because the length setting that you can play with in options is this

ExhaustTrailDetail 0.430000

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 6
Ah, well I stand corrected. I commend you for actually taking the time to go through and read everyt

 

I have too much free time anyways, might as well help out somehow, also, added some more "defining" to it all, more "what's this bit wall of text mean and why do I have to look at it" friendly so to speak (it's colorful now) anyway, check out the orange section i think that might interest you a little GoaFan

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

and that was the final update,probably.

It's as defined as I can get it unless I missed some things but if you know it and I didn't add a note, or want to know it specifically and I was unclear leave a post here and I'll see if I can answer it. For now I'll say it's done ;p

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

LastSelectedIsBlackMarketEnabled is at the bottom because it was a change/upgrade from the user file in Entrenchment.

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Lavo_2, reply 10
LastSelectedIsBlackMarketEnabled is at the bottom because it was a change/upgrade from the user file in Entrenchment.
ahhh that makes sense. you can't really just throw it in there somewhere as you please. Well that's cleared up but it still looks lonely at the bottom ;p

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

I guess I never answered here before...  Strange.

Quoting BadTune,

IcoServerAddress "ico.stardock.com"
IcoServerPort 6100                <------things you have no business messing with...unless you're trying to break multi-player

Or trying to get the game to connect to a different service automatically.  An associated change to the string file could change the button label to say the name of the place you changed that too rather then ICO.

Quoting BadTune,

AutoSaveTickFrequency 900  <------didn't change this but I'm running out of colors, rate of autosave(in seconds[probably])

Yes, in seconds.

Quoting BadTune,

GS_MAX_NUM_DIFFERENT_PLANET_MESHES 5  

Sets the limit on the number of meshes allowed for each planet.  So far, I've only seen 3 for a planet, so that mean's we have room to grow still before needing to play with this.  Actually, we couldn't play with it before because of the memory crashes, but now we can, so...

Quoting BadTune,

GS_NUM_WEAPON_FIRE_TARGET_VERTEX_PICK_ATTEMPTS 3

Every mesh has vertices.  The weapon has to pick one to hit it.  It get's three chances to pick one.  Usually only needs one, but not always.  Strike craft in a turn taking autocannon fire for example...

Quoting BadTune,

GS_EXHAUSTTRAILUPDATEINREALTIME TRUE

Thought you would have played with this one by now.  My guess is that the trails will be choppy as they update rather then flow smoothly.

Quoting BadTune,

GS_HIGHESTSCENARIOCOMPLETED -1

Probably for the tutorial or an old setting left in before it was decided on not having a campaign...  Or a setting intentionally put in if it was ever decided to add a campaign.  -1 in Sins typically means don't use, unlimited use, or user select.

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

I did try the exhaust update false, does nothing, I answered it in some other thread, think it was DS lol I edited my post. But yeah, tried a few things and there was no change, kinda disappointed. I think the GS section has to do with that first generated "galaxy" for the menu background, the first option in the list of them gets rid of any animation/planets/moving behind the UI completely, all you get is the star background

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

Nice job BT but some colours are hard on the eyes. Might get weebled. 

Weebles wobble but they dont fall down.

Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting BadTune, reply 13
I did try the exhaust update false, does nothing, I answered it in some other thread, think it was DS lol I edited my post. But yeah, tried a few things and there was no change, kinda disappointed. I think the GS section has to do with that first generated "galaxy" for the menu background, the first option in the list of them gets rid of any animation/planets/moving behind the UI completely, all you get is the star background

Thanks for the tip on this. I'm playing around in the GalaxySenarioDef based on that line, that it generates galaxies from scratch each time Sins is run, and I've successfully "edited" the backdrop on boot to only use Asteroids as "planets" and always have a blue star. The backdrop uses the Random and WeightedRandom to generate the backdrop. It also uses RandomStar to generate the star.

Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top

no problems, and maybe bright blue, green and red are a tad offensive on the eyes ^^; I'll switch them out for some earthy tones in a sec lol

 

EDIT: Recoloring completed, now with 70% less eyestrain than previous version!! it it now 2.0 ;O

              "SHH! don't speak ill of him!! he may appear behind you!!" "who?" "Bucky O' Hare, Scourge of the toads" "ugh.....you were drinking toner and redbull again weren't you" "was it the stuff in that red can and that blue and white one?" "yes" " there were empty before I drank them"

 

Reply #18 from Sins Forums Top

S H A M E L E S S  B U M P ! ! ! !

sorry, this post was falling back in the pages lol, not that it's overly important but I've seen some recent posts in other threads asking about stuff that can be changed in here ;p

Bring on the Necroposter comments! I can take it! *flexes and fake balloon muscles deflate*  

Reply #19 from Sins Forums Top

Hahaha.  You always seem to amuse me.

 

You couldn't handle me trash talking you.  ;P

Reply #20 from Sins Forums Top

True, but there would always be the chance I'd ignore it completely too ;p

Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top

WOOT!!!  What's a good max particle count?

 

MaxParticleCount 6000
MaxParticleSimulationsCount 2000 <---- This little orange section has to do with the amount of weapon fire, debris, stuff
MaxAsteroidCount 10000                       floating about on screen at any given time (vanishing SFX happens after this MaxDustCloudParticleCount 5000           limit has been reached and such)

 

what of reducing maxAsteroidCount to 5k and dust to 3k?

Reply #22 from Sins Forums Top

Really depends on your PC, just play with it and see what works for your rig. If the asteroids and dust doesn't have to be there at all if you really don't care for it.

Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top

One year later, i still see a few comments floating about on how to change some of the things in here. Oh well, figured out  where rebellion's file was hiding so might as well update it. Enjoy all you newcomers who want to figure out how to do some "fine tuning" to your game settings.

Changes do not alter your checksum for mods, nor does it make steam bitch at you and reinstall 'cause it's suffering from perpetual PMS. Anyway, enjoy, tell a friend, share the goodness.

Reply #24 from Sins Forums Top

^Any interesting additions worth mentioning in Rebellion, for those who don't want to reread the whole thing? :P

Reply #25 from Sins Forums Top

yeah but they were all in game option menu things so I waited till today to update it, was too tired to stare at settings at 2am xD