Best mods?

[some (momi)]

Hello,

I've been a fan of SotS since it's release, though I haven't played it as much lately. I've recently reinstalled the game, and shortly thereafter learned that mods are available -

Which mods do you guys feel are the most developed/balanced, and/or best?

I don't know where to begin with all the different ones, and the Kerberos forums don't seem to have a compendium of the different mods (centralized) anywhere.

Thanks!

[Fulano]

My personal favorite is the E4X mod. It fixes some things, adds some nice features, balances some things. This is mostly because I only play this game from time to time and don't want to re-learn the bigger mods that completely change the game or add new races.

Moddb seems to be one of the more common places mods are stored for this game.

EDIT:
Not E4X, cripes... I meant Blue Templar's Balance mod!
E4X is for Sins of a Solar Empire... too tired...

[some (momi)]

@Fulano Forgot about checking moddb, thanks! Additionally, it's great to hear a preferred mod from a person who actually uses such - hadn't heard of E4X before either, will definitely have to look into it.
Cheers!

[Kursah]

I've heard lots of great things about BSOTS, but have yet to try it.

My ongoing mod collection for the past handful of years just upgrades the visuals a little bit, but doesn't modify the actual gameplay. Here's the list from my mod folder, I had to download them from the SotS Kerberos forums.

- HiRes Textures mod
- HiRes Planets V3 mod
- HiRes Skybox 3.0
- Planet Mod V3.4
- Solar Systems V2.0
- Modded Ships.txt for increased viewable distance in combat.

I can try to dig up where I got them from.

[Fulano]

Huh, when trying to find links to those mods I found a page on the wiki that revers to a ton of mods I've never heard of:
https://wiki.swordofthestars.com/sots1/Community_Mods

[jahg84]

BSOTS is an epic (read long) mod with lots of added weapons, ship sections and associated technologies. The fission era in particular is stretched out and expanded. 99% complete and well done. It scraps the sadorandomizer method of replayability with assigning each race its own tree(s) that have been fleshed out to generally contain all needed counters. Or you can decided to go up a different tree on your next game, as its mostly handled in 4Xs now. In any case you probably want to play it with a big map, and not rush to get the most out of it.

Most mods are minor changes. Some (ACM?) are complete redos. BSOTs is generally an expansion with more tiers of tech to go through.
Good luck finding links to download a lot of those mods.

[Iron Dice]

Wow, BSOTS is awesome. I just got it working, and it's impressive work. Thanks for the pointer!

[BumpInTheNight]

I am enjoying the BSOTS mode, thank you Jahg84 for bringing it up! Came from a long pause after playing this game with the ACM mod for years.