I am currently using Sirian's ships if that helps. Much nice quality sprites compared to vanilla DW in my opinion.

http://stephan.gestalter.at/html/page_183_2.html

Getting back into this game now that I have some free time in this new year. Anyone have any requests for small visual tweaks like this mod?

ORIGINAL: Serenitis

Some leaders seem to spawn without any skills at all.

I've just updated the mod to version 2 which fixes this issue.
All characters are now guaranteed to have some skills.

<t> Hello everyone, indeed I haven't logged on since DawnPatrol's reply - so had no idea this was going on.<br/> <br/> Firstly, yes - I probably should have asked the original author, but my laziness is to blame and I honestly didn't think it would be a problem due to it being a non-profit mod. I re...

Definitely interested in this, I'd love it if you were to send me an early build to test

<t> Think you've hit the nail on the head there. Almost everyone recommends playing a standard game with automation turned on, and then slowly turn them to manual as you start learning the mechanics.<br/> <br/> Like yourself, I found the opposite a lot more helpful, not to mention much more immersiv...

Osito, did anything become of your Milky Way Galaxy mod? I remember a thread on it a while back, but you ran into some difficulties...

<r> Excellent, I love it. And goes really well with these alternate "hovering" ship symbols as well<br/> <URL url="http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3871739&mpage=1&key=ship%2Csymbols&#4081573"><LINK_TEXT text="tm.asp?m=3871739&mpage=1&key=ship%2Csymbols&#4081573">ht...

Do you have any screenshots of the mod in action? Cheers!

Thanks for the reply, I'd love to see the high res PDF of the first manual page!

<t> Looks and sounds amazing! And very interesting that you're using DWU as a kind of test bed for your own game mechanics. This makes me think: Are you making a kind of spiritual 3D successor for DWU? If so, that's very exciting.<br/> <br/> One request from me, can you upload higher quality images ...

<t> I like your experimental UI a lot. I tried to attempt the same thing a while back, but slow progress as there are a LOT of icons to skin - and also not all graphics are moddable for example the custom new game screens. I'd definitely try out your version though if you are able to update every si...

Keeping an eye on this one

This is awesome. Noticed you managed to merge AI, lower range and speed and extended universe mods together. I'm doing something similar myself, making sure components and research elements are merged correctly. Did you run into any problems yourself?

Great

After playing DW:U quite a lot, it's fast becoming my favourite space 4X to replace my Stars! addiction

Yes, the menu options at the bottom are accessible via the function keys.
Eg. File = F1
Options = F2
Start = F3

etc...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Osito<br/> <br/> Yeah, I think I'd probably still play Reach for the Stars, if I had a way to transfer it from my floppy disk! Although if I did, I might think it wasn't such a good thing after all.<br/> <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Osito, here's a little present ...

Thanks, hope people find value in these kind of visual mods

<r> If you zoom into a star you may have noticed that its corona animations become very pixelated. This mod fixes that by adding a gaussian blur to the animation and also significantly brightens up the star by toning down most of the dark "sunspots". As a bonus I also added a similar edit to the bla...

<r> Greetings Distant Worlds players!<br/> <br/> Today I thought I'd participate on the forum properly and contribute a little character mod I've been working on.<br/> <br/> I'm sick and tired of seeing every character use the same race image, so I went on the hunt for a character portrait replaceme...