First of let me say, i like this game a lot, and have played it for countless, and i mean COUNTLESS hours. But there's something i don't quite understand.
Sins Plus (by Uzii) has 11 different planet types, with each one being a little box of excitement to find and colonize.
One person, Uzii did most of the work on the mod, with credits given to others for planet skins and whatnot, but I must say, just little things like a couple extra planets make this game so much fun all over again. It's a shame that i can only play it against pitiful AI.
Balknight's Graphics Mod makes the vanilla effects look downright pathetic. I mean, this guy did an amazing job with particles and effects. I'm sure a full development studio could have done what they did in a couple months, but with a couplehundred manhours adding up to a week of departmental work.
These are just my two personal favorites, because i like the gameplay mechanics of the vanilla game, and these two mods don't attempt to edit that (too much).
Most mods that i've seen in other games, change the way the games look, such as battlefield having desert combat mod, or homeworld adding extra ships, but i have never seen a game overhauled so nicely by a few select people, in a way that has nothing to do with "taste," it's just so much better in every way.
I guess what i'm saying, is that thanks to the amazing modders in this community, many which i havent mentioned, (i mean Balknight's working on another civ, and there's this guy overhaulin the game with 3 new civs, but that's off on a tangent...) I feel like Sins of A Solar Empire could be so much funner if these aspects were included so that they could be played against other online players seamlessly, without having to get a whole group of people to get the exact same merged package that i created out of my own preference.
Thank you devs, and modders. This game is AWESOMEE, but what do you guys think?
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