It's taken a little longer than we thought, but it's ready

You can direct download Alpha 1 from here, or preferably from ModDB here, or SSC here.

This is our first proper release, so it's still pretty rough, and there will be a lot of problems with it, but hopefully people will enjoy giving it a try. There's a decent amount of new assets, and Shadmar has done a ton of work adding several graphical effects and the new transit drive system.

And a big thanks to the Pioneer devs, for all their work on the Pioneer engine, and for helping us out now and then too.

PS If someone wants to help put together a Linux or Mac build that would be great as well. 

PPS loading times are a bit longer than in Pioneer, and for now loading save games is a bit borked, but will be fixed for the next release (which won't take so long )

Hello to everyone that still enjoys playing this wonderful classic game, several of us at the Emperor of the Fading Suns Steam Group are starting a new PBEM game and are looking for committed players to join, if you are interested please send me an email at bryanjosephmills@gmail.com.

Also, here is the link to the Emperor Wars Mod, (in it's final version a combination of EFS 1.4, Reality Mod, and Emperor Wars) if you have any problems running it please let me know.

Please remember Emperor Wars is the most advanced Mod out there and the Church, League, and Symbiots are really aggressive but it is a lot of fun.

EFS – Emperor Wars Mod Full.zip
http://www.mediafire...gz9mrujkbv488tc

Background on Reality and Emperor Wars Mod

I thought I would provide some background on the Reality and Emperor Wars Mod.

I loved playing EFS back in 1997, and really enjoyed the Nova patch.

In 2012, I rediscovered and first found that someone had created the Reality Mod, which included units from the Emperor of the Fading Suns Books printed by Holistic Design.

It included new units such as the Vorox, Brother Battle, Sanctuary Aeon, etc.

EoFS Reality Mod: https://sites.google...ite/efsreality/

This got me to thinking wouldn't it be great to have a Historical Game map based on the Emperor of the Fading Suns Books "Survey of the Known Worlds"

EoFS Noble Fiefs: http://store.holisti...ndex&cPath=1_12

So, I went to work with the EFS Map Editor making the Historical Map that I also wanted, which includes all of the details and accurate landmarks for each Known World. After weeks and editing I finished Emperor Wars.

EoFS Emperor Wars: https://sites.google...warsfadingsuns/

It is a combination of Reality and an accurate Historical Map of the Known Worlds.

You can download the combined files here: http://www.mediafire...gz9mrujkbv488tc

If really makes the game much more fun, and I hope that you enjoy it.

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Happened to find this model on the interwebs and thought I would see what it looked like in Pioneer...

I can't find enough B5 models to warrant trying to do a full B5 mod 

Snatch up this great game for 75% while its on sale at Gamersgate.

$5 is the current price.

"Starshatter: TGS is a space simulation mod designer‘s dream platform .Because Starshatter: TGS
was designed from the ground up to support so many different play styles – from space fighter
combat to airborne strikes to starship battles to fleet tactical encounters – you can use it to create
mods for just about any popular science fiction universe that you like ."

Hello to all space pilots,
my mother tongue is not English, I use google translator to try to express myself with all of you here in these lovely forums.

After reading the previous sentence in the game manual. I started trying to modify the game to my liking with the mods I downloaded here.
Found here also an excellent tutorial on how to modify or create a campaign, written by Wdboyd.
My first task was to try to modify the campaign number 2 - Operation Highland with all spacecraft exchanged for other spaceships from Star Wars Saga and change some things in the campaign for balancing issues and different style of play. I'll talk about that later.

After many problems encountered in the campaign, and have found solutions to almost everything I wanted to achieve. had a mission in the game that did not work well, and I thought that was my mistake, because I have changed so many files. But the report file generated by starshater_d.exe gave me the solution to the problem showing me the file with the error.

There are 2 files that prevent the mission from functioning well.

FS_Escort_02.def - if you play with the ship stormhawk.
IS_Escort_02.def - if you play with the ship Falcon.

The error is at the beginning of the file.

"MISSION_TEMPLATE

name: "Harmony Run"
type: ESCORT_FREIGHT
system: Solus
region: Trellis
degrees: true

alias: {name: A1, code: player_carrier}
alias: {name: A2, code: player_squadron}
alias: {name: FC1, elem: "Trellis-Solus"}
alias: {name: FC2, elem: "Solus-Trellis"}
alias: {name: FC3, elem: "Solus-Kalon"}
alias: {name: FC4, elem: "Solus-Kalon"}
alias: {name: HS, elem: "Harmony"}..."

"alias: {name: HS, elem: "Harmony"}" - is this line in particular that the error lies.
element "Harmony" does not exist. It's "Harmony Station".
After modifying this element, the mission began to work properly.

But this error is strange, I think he was not present in previous versions of the game, and the proof is in toturial campaign creation, written by Wdboyd, where he talks about these files and the error does not exist there.
Quoted from toturial.

"MISSION_TEMPLATE    //"The usual listing requirement here."
name: "Harmony Patrol"      //The display name
type: PATROL               //I think caps were used here for easy visibility rather than programming requirements
system: Solus
region: Solus
degrees: true                //note here the degreescommand line that we normally use with ship or weapon mods
alias: { name: A1, code: player_carrier } ///alias is just what it means…below you will see the code A1 used multiple times. The code:command tells the program whom that actually is.
alias: { name: A2, code: player_squadron }

alias: { name: FC1, elem: "Solus-Kalon" }         ///FC stands forfarcaster.
alias: { name: FC2, elem: "Kalon-Solus" }        ////elem: is short for elementand is looked for in the OOB files that the campaign def activates.
alias: { name: HS, elem: "Harmony Station" }  ///here HS is obviously short for Harmony Station "

The last line don't have the error!!

I for "my" campaign, solved the problem, I think this could be easily introduced in mod SS_Reborn.dat

For now I test the campaign number 2 with my changes and everything seems to work fine. I will soon do the same with the campaign number three.

My next post will be to ask for help and advice in the development of ships, I already have many models extracted from another game, and managed to put the models in the game successfully. I just need to know some details about some things.

Be well,

I thought I'd just drop that there. Friday it'll hit the shopping shelves

/Edit: It is out now!

Microsoft has announced it new XBox http://www.pcmag.com...,2419328,00.asp looks like it may be an epic crash and burn.

So yeah, I was pretty much missing in action on these forums recently, in no small part because I was preparing this: http://www.kickstart...factory-wingmen

I think that the rewards are actually some pretty good deal on their own, without the adding benefit of saving an indie studio So let me know what you guys think, and if you could help spread the word around, I'd deeply appreciate it. I think that combining the most popular genre (MOBA) with space sims could help the genre as a whole be more recognized, but of course I'm quite biased on the subject

Hey Guys, 

  I have been thinking of a new post about the game design and art. I would also put Development plans here and art.

Thanks,

Julius

Some Quick Links:

http://www.facebook.com/SystemNetworks

ART

Which is better? The Blu Ship Or The Green Ship?

//PS I would be putting Visuals Design Dev plans UI and jobs tomorrow

Im loving the models but has anyone tinkered with or made any model ships for the new Pioneer that they would be kind enough to share? Im struggling to find them among all the threads

Best wishes,

Mike.

Fairspace Has Been Updated http://www.ssisgame.co.uk/fairspace

Ships have been rescaled to improve the graphics during combat,  This helps show of the engines normal mapping.

Hyperjumping distance is severely reduced when inside of a debret field,  You can still jump in but getting out will take time.

Looting missions within nebulars are now fully enabled, These will provide better than normal tech units for your ship's.

A red X is now shown on the map where you last died, This is to aid you in recovering any dropped loot during combat.

Cap ships show transparent when in freelook, This is to aid in combat.

Another Hud update, Feedback would be appreciated on this.

General interface update with a few effects thrown in here and there.

Some star systems have been adjusted and items have been moved around a little.

Mall has been removed as it served no real purpose.

Regards Bobalot

Something like Apollo 18 with space and horror thriller. Will probably be an interesting watch.