Why not describe the issue in a post?  It's possible that someone else has already addressed it with a mod or that there's an easy fix.

VERY much more efficiently actually. It's the last piece of the puzzle to a long standing and very much 'desired to be discussed' issue that if solved, would really open up the possibilities..

So this is about playing games on maps with huge numbers of stars where individual planets will not shrink down when you zoom out?

There is hope! I received a reply from Mr. Fraser. He is looking into the issue on his personal time in the next or following weekends. He said coding wise it looks like it shouldn't be too hard of a fix but implementing it onto all three versions of Sins would be the more difficult part.

So, there might be another patch coming which would, amazingly in conjunction with the Sins Optimization project, allow for large system play, finally. ' We'll see.

~Reuben

I have recieved word back from Mr. Fraser that he has indeed made the appropriate change concerning the planet and zoom issue. He has mentioned that he won't be pressing Stardock to release the patch until things calm down due to the soon to be launched Elemental game. He says that a new Diplomacy build needs to be created and placed on Impulse.

I asked him about the Sins Optimization Project and hope to have an answer back. I will keep everyone posted. There IS hope!

 yay there alive 

I kinda thought Stardock had our dear IC crew shackled and working on a new project .

Good to know they're still spending their spare time to polish sins out. If anything moves forward, it would be well appreciated.

Although I can already see those posts, saying that "you fixed that and you didn't fix XYZ ?!!! that sucx!!" etc.

"he won't be pressing Stardock to release the patch until things calm down due to the soon to be launched Elemental game"

Well this might be bad news because from early indicitions, it looks like the Elemental game was released about 8 months sooner then it should have been..  So if he has to "wait until things calm down", it could be a LONG wait..

       I think Stardock and Ironclad has to realize there are different audience's that don't love all their games. Just because Elemental is their top priority, you don't stop all interaction with your other properties. They could have a contest for modders, with the best model, slipped in the vanilla game, or update the front page or keep active in the forums.

       I'm a Sins customer, I did'nt feel the desire for Demigod or Elemental... so basically I've been left in complete darkness about the future of Sins and there is no reason for that. It makes no sense that we have to wait for a patch to fix the uber pirates and bland diplomacy tech tree so we can patch elemental for the next year. Thank god for SOGE and Reqiuem.

       And btw : when you own the company (ironclad) it's not spare time, your not an hourly employee, your always on the clock, like a cop. It must be hard to be in the business with EA out there with AAA titles and unlimited funding, but you could at least keep one schmuck ( lol) on the payroll to keep us informed and entertained, regardless of the flavor of the month.( Elemental).

Could I send you a preview of my post so you can approve it?

1. I didnt realize continuing the thread in the direction it was headed was hijacking.

2. Since you achieved your goal (contacting Mr. Fraser) why dont you close the thread?

very very small graphical one, only apparent if you play a certain mod.  dont worry about it.

if you are just buying trinity, worry more about pirates.  actually you should prolly just turn them off for a while. cause they hurt.

o rly? i thought it was the "certain planets dont quite appear at a mid-zoom state if there are too many planets"

herm.  either way, its not that big of an issue.