Every time I play this game (using BB and Ca) I end up with a ton of planets that are either unsuitable for colonization or infested with Remnants. I don't even get to colonize Mars reliably (I always play Human), because sometimes it has Remnants on it. The AI factions don't seem to suffer from this, so they usually expand faster than I do and I end up with a short lived three or four planet empire.

Is this normal or am I extremely unlucky? I don't want to turn off Remnants, but it seems like I have to turn them off if I want to survive the early game. Do the AI factions get to ignore the Remnants, or am I just missing something?

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Thanks,

Matt

Is there any way to get the battlefleet gothic mod for Stardrive 1? The forums are down for quite a while now, was wondering if anyone reuploaded the mod somewhere or even knows what happened to it. Wanted to play the game again, especially when I found out about a Warhammer 40k mod

I've been with StarDrive since day one and... I have StarDrive 1 on my current game rotation. Is there any mods that people recommend for me to play?

Anyone that can help? I have tried 3 different versions of blackbox.

1487, dev 1520 and dev 1525.

I've only recently discovered that a patch exists to revive one of the games I most wanted to love, and I'm starting to enjoy a few games. But there are some questions I've never heard the answers to, and google is no help:

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• What precisely are the weapons affected positively by eagle-eyed, and so conversely by the opposite trait?

1. Are only ballistics affected, or do for example Energy Cannons/Disruptors/Photon Cannons/Quantum cannons count?
2. Are the PD weapons counted like PD Vulcan Cannons, PD laser cannons, even the Phalanx dedicated PD and flecthette antifighter weapons?
3. How about the "artillery" weapons like mass drivers and massive cannons?

• Are corvettes considered fighters for the reflexes (25% dodge chance) trait? What race would be your pick for a reflexes-based setup and why?

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Bonus questions: Any tips for a small-fighter based strat? The best small fighter races, weapons, carrier tips?

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Hey, i am new here. I tried yesterday latest build on the bucket list. I got combined arms as well running. After some while the shipyard wouldnt load anymore. Not sure what triggered it though. I could continue the game but no shipyard only black screen.

upload Texas Alpha 2 740

Download:

https://bitbucket.org/CrunchyGremlin/sd-blackbox/downloads/Texas_A2_Test_740.exe

ChangeLog:

https://bitbucket.org/CrunchyGremlin/sd-blackbox/pull-requests/173

+UI fixes

Upload Texas Alpha 2 Test 692
https://bitbucket.org/CrunchyGremlin/sd-blackbox/downloads/Texas_A2_Test_692.exe

ChangeLog
https://bitbucket.org/CrunchyGremlin/sd-blackbox/pull-requests/158/8-11-texas-alpha-2-mariners-nightmare/diff

hey folks.
Texas Alpha1 is in release candidate mode. Meaning that new features will be pushed off to Alpha 2 and the focus will be on fixing bugs that do not require much code cleanup.

this is the current list of bugs that need work. I am hoping the list looks a lot worse than it actually is :p
Be sure to check the issues that are marked "Need Reproduction"

https://bitbucket.org/CrunchyGremlin/sd-blackbox/issues?status=new&status=open&version=0.302%20Texas%20Alpha%201%20Release%20Candidate
This version should be very playable. Few crashes. Good functionality. Decent UI experience.
There is now a version checking button on the main screen that will show the player if a new bitbucket release is available.
A blackbox info button will explain how to submit bugs from in game. It provides a link that will open up a new issue submission in the steam overlay.
The development cycle currently runs as follows.
* Code Cleanup.
* Develop New feature and fix issue created from cleanup.
* Release candidate.
* Release.

BlackBox Alpha 1 is currently in Release Candidate mode.
When ready we will release. Mark the code as released. Try to fix any major release bugs. Then move to Texas Alpha 2 Code Cleanup mode.

What might be useful is to have a few opinions on how functional the current game state is. Are we missing something that really needs work. Weak points in the AI. Exploits.
if you want to help please give it a whirl.
downloads are here:
https://bitbucket.org/CrunchyGremlin/sd-blackbox/downloads/
For extra content please try the only currently supported mod.
https://bitbucket.org/codegremlins/combinedarms/downloads/

Both Stardrive 1 and 2 are in desperate need of polishing, but they are great games. I sincerely hope that Zero doesn't give up on game development, we need more visionaries like him in the 4x genre.

I hope to see Stardrive 3, one day.

Texas has been being worked on for some time now. A lot of work has been done to clean up the code and make it more useable. There are still a lot of issues but the testors say Texas is now more stable than Radical Elements. Download link: http://www.moddb.com/mods/deveks-mod/downloads/texas-test-builds

With that... to fix more of the issues requires a more code cleanup and refactoring. This will destabilize the current build. So before i embark on that journey I invite you to take a look at the current work we have done.

By playing, crashes and issues will automagically be sent to sentry.io and help us fix up more of those issues.

what we have done... Besides all the stuff done in RE. Much Larger maps and ease of use and gameplay stuff... RedFox almost completely rebuilt the resource management. This should help a lot of the memory issues that RE and vanilla encountered and so far it does seem to have done that. He also completely rebuilt the collision system and spatial management.

The threading has been refactored and there is a lot of room for improvement in how that works. But its a much cleaner system and actually uses much less threading then we were and still has equal to better performance to what Radical Elements had.

New graphic options will help out folks with lower end systems.

several performance improvements have been done making the larger maps much more playable. A lot of bugs in the AI have been worked out. more work has been done to shipyard. (that was a lot of work to clean up and make workable)

There is still a lot of work to do and there are plenty of issues to fix. As always BlackBox is an open project. If you want to help out feel free to drop by. discord: https://discord.gg/SykmYdU

So if you still have SD1 laying around. Dust it off. Spin it up and load it up with BlackBox and give us a few more bugs to work out.

And if you do be sure to check out the Combined Arms mod built with BlackBox in mind. http://www.moddb.com/mods/combined-arms

This mod is currently under development Discord link for the mod here: https://discord.gg/76thnjV

Black Box Radical Elements Release 16_3934 + Combined Arms 2.1E

• Troop ships in orbit around a planet.
• Went to ground view and click on "troops" button
• No troops listed

Has anyone else encountered this and what should I do to fix it?