If you really want the sound to play, I guess you could create an ability with autocast on, 0 AM cost, and a ridiculously long cooldown (we're talking 6 hours+ here, just to be on the safe side), and have the ability simply play the sound you want. It's a very dirty solution, I know (it takes up an ability slot + the player could be confused by an ability that is always on cooldown and doesn't do anything), but like I said, if you really want the sound to play...

I checked it out and tried a few more diff combos but still no dice.  I don't understand why this doesn't work.  Maybe I am misunderstanding the exclusivity type?  Wish I could figure this out

The ability itself is already a toggle.  The ability is toggled on to engage the defensive field making the ship invulnerable.  What I am trying to do is make it so that if the ship fires it's weapons through the field while it is active it removes the invulnerability for a short duration.  So the ability toggles buff #1 to self which then apply's buff #2 to target "onweaponfired" which applies aoe buff #3 that it supposed to remove the invulnerability from the Titan for a few seconds allowing the enemy to fire at it.  Logically it should work but it isn't.  

I'm only using the "CannotBeDamaged" modifier so the Titan is still able to fire it's weapons.  With a buff chain like this I assume ApplyBuffToFirstSpawnerNoFilterNoRange goes all the way to the beginning regardless of how many "chains" there are.  Is this correct?  If so I will try using that for buff #2 again with some of the other combos I have tried since I first attempted to use ApplyBuffToFirstSpawnerNoFilterNoRange.  Thanks for your assistance, been working on this off and on for a week now

Hallelujah I GOT IT!  I am not exactly sure which change/combo worked as I made several at once based on a few ideas I had but it is working.  Now just need to figure out the right balance.  Thanks for all the help guys!  Still looking for some help with the shuttle model if anyone is willing.  So stoked right now lol

If it's two colonizable planets you're looking for, I think that's impossible; the best you can do is put the two planets' gravity wells extremely close to each other, possibly with a dummy, invisible object that buffs ships so they have instantaneous phase jump chargeup speed.

If you're OK with having one of the planets uncolonizable, you could always turn it into a "dummy" object (like a structure or neutral extractor) with a giant model and huge collision size.

Nope. You need to have at least one star, though it doesn't have to be connected to anything.

ConvertData_Rebellion.exe is a command-line application: you need to run it in Command Prompt. If you've never used Command Prompt before, there are quite a few tutorials online on how to do the most basic stuff eg. changing directories, program syntax. If you run ConvertData_Rebellion.exe by itself in Command Prompt, it'll display the program's syntax; the text you're seeing in the "black box that flashes" is the said description about the program's syntax.

And of course, "The system cannot find ConvertData_Rebellion.exe".

Well... shit.

You need to make sure the ConvertData, the files you want to convert, and the command prompt window are all in the same folder.

I was doing that wrong as well. Terrific!

I'll have to fix that, thanks again GoaFan

Close.

"ConvertData_Rebellion entity CAPITALSHIP_TECHBATTLESHIP.entity CAPITALSHIP_TECHBATTLESHIP.entity txt" should do the trick.

You may also find this bat file easier to use. Put it and the ConvertData_Rebellion.exe in the same directory, double click "Convert.bat" and it will automate all the command prompt commands to convert all the entity files in that folder.

Based on the stuff you've been trying, the command prompt tutorials you read must've been quite bad. The batch files should do the trick for now, but they're a bit inflexible without .bat editing knowledge, so it's not a bad idea to still know how to execute the commands manually.

Command prompt works with one directory at a time: this is the directory you see to the left of the blinking cursor (directory = full folder structure). For any command/program you enter into command prompt, it will search both the Windows folder and the current folder for said command/program and return an error if it doesn't find anything. "start ConvertData_Rebellion.exe" would run the "start" command with the arguments "[current directory]\ConvertData_Rebellion.exe". Thing is, the "start" command has quite a complicated syntax and isn't required for ConverData to function, so you're better off just simply running ConvertData_Rebellion.exe to begin with.

Contrary to what GoaFan said, you don't need ConvertData in the same folder as your files, though having them be near each other cleans up your arguments a bit. If you have ConvertData in Directory A and the .entity files in Directory B, you can go about multiple ways of converting the .entity, for example: navigating to Directory A via the command "cd" and running
'ConvertData_Rebellion.exe entity "Directory B"\foo.entity "Directory B"\foo.entity txt',
navigating to Directory B via the command "cd" and running
'"Directory A"\ConvertData_Rebellion.exe entity foo.entity foo.entity txt',
or just simply staying put and running
'"Directory A"\ConvertData_Rebellion.exe entity "Directory B"\foo.entity "Directory B"\foo.entity txt'.
If Directory B is simply a folder inside Directory A, you don't even need to type in the full path: for example, if Directory A is C:\Users and Directory B is C:\Users\Public, if you navigate to C:\Users, entering in "Public\application.exe" is enough for command prompt to know to look in the Public folder within C:\Users (the current directory). This stuff is command prompt 101, which is why the tutorials you read must've been quite horrible if you were unaware of these concepts.

Following ConvertData's syntax (running the program without any arguments will show the full syntax), you can also do things like outputting the converted entity to a different folder and/or giving a different name to the converted entity as well; with a bit of improvisation, you should also be able to edit and tailor the ConvertData batch files to your needs.

PS. Sorry if I seemed annoyingly arrogant by not giving you a straight answer; when it comes to using tools, I prefer that people actually learn all necessary foundational knowledge before moving on to using the tool: sequences and series before calculus, conditional statements and loops before objects, command line navigation and basic use before command line programs. Sure, it might seem like a waste of time, but when you need to use the tool in an unorthodox or unexpected way, you'll get stuck without the foundational knowledge (and "learning the foundational stuff when you need it" is slower and more painful than simply starting with it from the getgo).