From the sounds of it the problem is that the ship DESIGNS, which the shipset calls upon, are not in the proper folder.

The ship designs would have to be in the: steam/steamapps/common/galactic civilizations III/designs folder, because the game will not see them in the mod folder without mods enabled.

I think I figure it out. Rebuilding the fleet style has worked. I was able to assign the same exact ship design to every fleet slot except one, the ship design did not show up, I believe because it wasn't the right size, so I used something close and saved the fleet style and it worked. I've already forgotten exactly which fleet slot it was, but looks like I'm going to have to go through each manually, which I am going to do.

I had to remove two abilities from the faction as well as change the ship color template, set the starting ship to survey ship, and change the star system to the random one for minor races. Aquilaran Hegemony is the only one I've completed. I'm trying to keep the traits that most match your civ descriptions. 

I'm happy to provide the files back to you if you're interested in distributing a no mod required version.

EDIT: Just did the Arachnid Empire and it also worked so looks like this is a good solution.

yep   

Well now... it has been a long time no?

Just an FYI I am looking at GRM and it's compatibility for 3.10 and the new DLC. So far, looks like you can use GRM 8.5 without serious side effects (crashing), but it isn't up to date.

I'm working on that now, if anyone has any feedback/information on changes that conflict with GRM, I'd love the help.

Thank you!

ShipClassDefs.xml and StarSystemDefs.xml, needs updating to prevent crashes from the new DLC's. (StarDefs, PlanetDefs, PlanetArtDefs also, if these are changed by you too, Gauntlet)

One bug: Parasite event, first episode is to choose cure/weaponize/etc.

Second has an issue: {STATCHANCE}% Malevolent check instead of a number.

SaladinTheKind's 100 (plus 12) custom races pack

compatible with 3.1 ?

GRM required, would anyone with experience comment on its merit and homogeneity with GRM .

THANK YOU

jj

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Well... I'm excited for the next expansion and I'm trying to be hopeful that this time, they will full integrate the various features of GC. I really think at this point, they should just roll everything into one proper instance... meaning that if you buy Retribution, you get everything else (mercenaries/crusade) and its all in one proper directory inside the files... and more importantly the features of all of them are enmeshed. Things don't feel cohesive enough in my opinion. Also fix the battle system.

Example of a new ability... 

"Isolationists" meant to be used as a combo of Paranoid and Xenophobic...

+50% to Military, Social, and Research

+3 Fighters at Starbases, Shipyards, and Colonies

-25% Growth Rate

+1 Penalty to Shared Borders

Obviously, Xenophobic is pretty broken, that is why this ability isn't TRIPLING social and research production. I also removed the unadvertised influence penalty (it was very minor) and the growth and credit bonuses were removed... growth became a penalty (they can't risk overpopulating if they want to expand carefully and avoid contact with other races). The shared border penalty is because other races will obviously take affront from the isolationists refusing to deal with them and because they are "suspicious" that the isolationists will always be building up for wars.

Yup. Though I'm probably going to wait to release for retribution?

Gauntlet,  

GREAT NEWS on the NEW RACES, BUT...

The 4 choices for abilities is better, all we had to do to use it with other mods is change ONE NUMBER from 2 to 4 in globaldefs

 separating out the abilities made the mod BETTER .. why reduce choices ??...many of Saladins 112 are using 4 abilities

as far as Xenophobic.. just lower the modifier to 2

new abilities is great though.. it gives more latitude.. a player just has to limit himself to 1 pick or 2 and not 4

looks like SD took one of my suggestions and made HYPERGATES !!!

but they might have ruined the TECH tree ... we will see

Looks like the game is going for DRASTIC changes and will wipe out all compatibility anyways

Ill keep an old copy to play with  3.2... seems stable enough.. and try out the new stuff cant fight all the changes I guess , Im one of those guys that doesnt like to change much...

THANKS BUDDY !!  

JJ

Ah , I C

So the changes to this entry keeps breaking MODS !!   now I know why modders get frustrated and quit

Are there other things to change in globaldefs besides ability points ? I have not compared every line of the entry.

What other lines need changing ?

<CustomFactionAbilityPoints>4</CustomFactionAbilityPoints>

thanks

JJ