Download BlackBox - RadicalElements_RC_0503

Stardrive BlackBox Feature list for 1231 Radical Elements build. (there is more than this I just dont have it all written down) I reccomend getting the RC(Release Candidate) version when i get it up here. You can check out the latest RC build on the bitbucket site. General Game Things Larger Maps. Many many crash fixes. troop management improvements. troops will autoland on planets you send them to. orbit a planet with a shift right click. planets will auto resupply troop ships. solar system info expansion will show special resource marker and player troop counts. Large Access Aware exe to reduce out of memory issues. money based on population rather than production. Much better ship targeting code. Reduced volume when warping and launching troops. Performance increases. more multi threading. AI ship count limiter allows the game to have more ships for the AI and adjust the ship performance load for your system. AI improvements AI will chose techs by what it needs and will choose ship techs that it can use and give it the best ship. AI will manage its troops better. AI will use more diverse fleets. AI can use carrier designs. Fighters will return to carrier when out of ammo. Fighters will more effectively return to carrier when warping. Fleets will stay together when formation warping. AI can build defensive platforms ship sensors effect target picking radius fighters use carrier sensor range freighters can flee from combat many mod only additions mods can run entirely from the mod directory. Currently only McShooterz StarTrek:Shattered Alliance fully utilizes changes to the mod abilities. Transporters, Racial Specific Tech, and a lot more. Moddb.com More automation controls. Auto Taxes Auto Technology New Espionage screen more info about other empires New spy code. Testing versions can be found here: Bitbucket.org So what is black box? its a decompiled recompiled version of stardrive. It contains fixes and enhancements to the basic game while trying to keep the game as close to vanilla as possible. Ideally you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between regular stardrive and balckbox stardrive but... things might work better in black. Might have more controls. freighters might behave more like expected. might experience less crashes. might have better game performance. And there might not be any "might" about it. it does a lot of these things and more. Mods can be run all from the mod directory. ( some assembly required as most mods are distrubted with vanilla in mind) right click enemy planets to land troops, from troop carriers too. Fighters will return to carriers when out of ammo or badly damaged. and more.feature list Version 1 BlackBox is Coded by: McShooterz The Doctor General Axure CrunchyGremlin allium_sativum and Special thanks to The Devek The folks that worked on Deveks mod. and of course Zero. and the great number of folks giving ideas and giving feed back. (Contribute to the game and you can have a system or spy or even a ship design named for you.) I just want to play the mod Crunchy! Great! The process is simply: Run the downloaded exe. Adjust the default install location if needed. run stardrive from steam as you normally would. STEP BY STEP INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS Set your game completely back to vanilla. IE if you installed a mod revert back so that vanilla runs. if you have never installed a mod you can skip the revert to vanilla section. How to revert to vanilla or Nuking from orbit... Its the only way to be sure. (warning: This requires basically downloading the game from steam again): go to the stardrive program folder. usually something like: Program Files(x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\StarDrive delete the "content" folder. go to steam. right click stardrive properties. find the option that lets you "verify content" do that. your game should be vanilla after it replaces the gigabyte of data in the content folder. When installing normal mods do not overwrite content folder items with the mod files. mods content must exist all in the mod folder for it work right with blackbox. properly formatted it will. all the mods in the mod super pack are formatted this way. go to the download section and download the test version. extract the zip into the the game directory usually located in Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\StarDrive Note that all current releases are self extracting executables that will default extract to the standard steam location. if you have a non standard install adjust the path shown in the exe as needed. Overwrite files if asked. To Uninstall follow the revert to vanilla instructions above. This mod should be compatible with normal content mods but please dont install them as you would vanilla SD. The mod should run entirely out of the SD mod folder now. It just needs to be formatted to do this. Most SD mods require overwriting of game files. We removed that need and not reverting to vanilla or overwriting game files with a new mod may result in inconsistent behavior. If you find a mod that doesnt run right solely from the mod folder contact us. Here: Bitbucket.org It is No longer compatible with Deveks Code mods but... You Dont need that. just run this. BlackBox has all the deveks changes and a lot more. THE SAVE GAMES FROM THIS MOD MAY NOT LOAD IN VANILLA SD. But I havent tested that. They may work. Vanilla SD saves and Vanilla Modded SD saves will load in this mod but saving again may break compatibility with SD vanilla.

Credits: CrunchyGremlin