Sins of a Solar Empire v1.19 and Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment v1.05 updates were released via Impulse in preparation for the upcoming release of Sins of a Solar Empire - Diplomacy.

WARNING: These updates will invalidate existing save games!

Gameplay / Balance:

• All Factions -
  • Beam weapon damage is no longer over-applied in cases when the damage duration is equal to or greater than the update period of the damage system. (aka - fix for the Illuminator mystery damage bug)
  • Fixed AI not autocasting ultimates.
  • Fixed where the AI wouldn’t start building anything until awhile after the game started.
  • Improved the AI’s building in general.
  • Fixed bug where AI would incorrectly send an incomplete attack force.
  • Improved the AI’s ship building selections.
  • Reduced the AI’s building of siege frigates.
  • *Entrenchment Only* Improved the AI’s building of minelayers.
• TEC -
  • Arcova scout frigate DPS reduced by 15%.
  • Sova’s Rapid Manufacturing ship and structure build rate bonus reduced from 300% to 250%.
  • Embargo can no longer cause a player to lose less money if their planet being affected by Embargo has negative income.
  • Fixed bad triangle on TEC Kol Battleship mesh.
• Advent -
  • Seeker Vessel DPS reduced by 20%.
  • Improved autocast condition for Antimatter Rechargers.
  • Fixed Illuminator damage bug (see above).
• Vasari -
  • Jikara Navigator DPS reduced by 15%.
  • Ravastra Skirmisher DPS increased from 10.5 to 12.
  • Skirantra Carrier’s Scramble Bomber ability revised -
    • Now spawns 1/2/3 squads per use instead of just one.
    • Antimatter cost changed from 50/40/30 to 50/50/50.
    • Cooldown changed from 40/30/20 to 35/35/35.
  • Fixed Phase Gates from not always behaving correctly.
  • Fixed Siege Turrets sometimes not firing at the planet.
  • *Entrenchment Only* Phasic Trap level 2 properly fixed.
  • *Entrenchment Only* Improved auto-cast condition for Nano Weapon Jammer.
  • *Entrenchment Only* Fixed erroneous effect for Jam Weapons.
  • *Entrenchment Only* Vasari mines reference their proper explosion effects.

Graphics and Effects:

• Fixed disappearing particle effects / particle effects not appearing at all.
• Infinite lifetime particle effects now die off if you aren’t looking at them and resurrect when you are.
• Lots of finite time effects have had their lifetimes decreased to something reasonable.
• All travel particle effects are now infinite as intended.
• All muzzle and hit effects are now finite and have reasonable lifetimes as intended.
• Various particle effects that were incorrectly infinite are now finite and vice versa.
• Deleted some obsolete particle effects.
• Fixed bad triangle on TEC Kol Battleship mesh.
• Fixed bad phase cannon shell textures.
• Fixed flickering phase cannon shell.
• Fixed erroneous effect for Jam Weapons.
• *Entrenchment Only* Vasari mines reference their proper explosion effects.

Modding:

• Additional reference sanity checking for abilities and buffs to make it easier to debug new abilities at run-time. Abilities and buffs used by entities will output an error message if they specify a non-existant buff for creation.
• Increased maximum number of meshes allowed (400->800).
• Increased maximum number of textures allowed (1000->2000).
• Warning - Just because the engine can now reference 800 meshes and 2000 textures doesn’t mean there is more memory available. The overall limit is still 2 GB of RAM. Use at your own risk.
• ConvertData is now statically linked to its dll’s so there is no more conflict or erroneous conversions on some machines.