Good luck to everyone!

Great work people, best of luck

just one question, how do we view the 4 honorable mentions?

Hey, just curious about the honorable mentions as well.  Are they in addition to the eight finalists?

Thanks, 

Joe 

Hey, thanks for picking me as one of the finalists!

Never thought that anyone would be interested in a species of sentient crystals

Glad I didn't submit any of my other more conventional species.

Awesome! I'm a bit shocked I made it in as a finalist but certainly not disappointed

If anyone is curious as to the Orphica Enclave's traits/abilities and doesn't want to download it, here's a pic:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/71512473/images/OrphicaFactionChoice.jpg

Quoting Ronnar,

reply 7

Never thought that anyone would be interested in a species of sentient crystals

I liked your idea a lot, I thought it was pretty original. Reminded me of those big blue crystals from that Stargate: SG1 episode if you're familiar with it.

I'm also having trouble with the Kuja (at first I thought it was the ship designs, but I'm pretty sure I have them set up right)... all the other factions are working, so I'm not sure what I did wrong.

Kuja Faction

Thanks for including me.... 

But the submissions were done before Beta 6 and the game version 0.9 made a small edit to the way ships were called... making my mod not work.

So for those of you who want to try my faction:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/0628u52xavqsafc/Kuja_Faction_WithShips.zip

Because of how the mod system checks for custom ship designs, to get the mod to work, you'll need to copy the designs into the program folder location for designs. 

For no custom Ships:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/72eebh4ibn1g7jw/Kuja_Faction_NoShips.zip

The other submissions look great, too.  Win or lose, it was fun making this (and I'm still developing it).  And once Steam Workshop is integrated, I'll have an updated version of this on there. 

Edit: Stardockers, any chance we can replace the downloadable file for the submissions with updated ones which work properly? 

I haven't looked at all the submissions but several have a mod folder in them. The directory structure doesn't look consistent in the zips.

But, you find that zip that has subfolders (Game, gfx, text, etc) in them.  And unzip that and place into your Mods folder.  Does that make sense?

Can you point to a specific one?  I'll try to give instructions based on that.  (I noticed that the downloadable file for my submission has a different structure the other ones.  I don't know why they didn't just make it all uniform.... maybe it is because they had to convert some from those who submitted a game-created faction, as opposed to an xml created one).

As an example, I looked at the Favixi by pendrokar.  

In the zip there is a Favixi folder, then two zips inside. The one numbered 0000130 seems to be the "newer" of the two.  Inside that zip are the folders that are relevant.

I created a folder in my mod folder called Favixi.  Then I moved the folders inside 00000130.zip into the Favixi folder.  And that should do it.  When I start the game and select new game, the cute purple hamster is an option.  (Unfortunately, for whatever reason, maybe something incompatible with Beta 6, if you chose the race and start a game, it crashes).  

Thanks Dumhed--got the Kujo working with your update. Cool stuff!

Still having trouble with the Favixi...

After reading your readme I got the Kujo to work.   Wow.  Reading is Power!   Thanks.

Perhaps that is how I should approach the others.....you think?

EDIT:  when I download the other three: faxvi, judgement..., and mirrion..., I get a faction file and the pictures for the submission, not the portraits etc, that go into the factions file.

So those I can't handle.   Can someone give me a slap upside my head, what am I missing?

So I can use mirrion and judgement  with only the faction file itself is what you are saying.   I will try that.   I have the other working now except faxvi, like you.  Thanks for your help.

Been trying some things with the Faixivi data but haven't gotten it to work.  Perhaps someone has had success with this?

OH by the way you must be right; the other two factions work fine so far.