Well hello all. Recently bought the trinity pack while it was on sale and have to say, I love the game and would have bought it if it were 50 dollars (Now Call of Duty...there's a game that's worth maybe 20 dollars...). Anyway, after two days of playing I already had downloaded the Requiem Starwars mod for Entrenchment, and that got me wondering, What exactly is the difference between Sins, Entrenchment, and Diplomancy? The all seem the same with some differences, and then there's Trinity itself. What is that? How is it different? At this point, I had just been jumping around the different games (I think? I dunno what they are) and hopefully would be able to load my saves in the right version. Not that big a deal, never went very far with most of my early games, except in Entrenchment when I played as the Empire.

So to start with, a little explination about the differences between the expansioons would be good.

Second, I'll go ahead to say that there are very few games that I own that I haven't modded. Sins took about three days. After some trollin' on teh internets I found a number of Sins mods, a lot of which seemed to be in a perpeual state of unfinishedness (or maybe its was just my lack of ability to navigate the ModDB site. Am I the only one who thinks its designed rather haphazardly?). Yet there are many videos of people using such mods, especially this one graphics one that looks really cool, with lots of lasers and junk like that (If I were in charge of creation, I would have started with lasers!) And really cool looking explotions. Vanilla Sins is fun and all, but dammit, if I'm going to explode, I want to go out in a huge bang.

So second, mods. List 'em if you know em'.

tl;dr New Guy here, just go through the motions.