Thank you so much for this mod. It has allowed a friend and I to enjoy playing.

I have one question for you about setup. If I have the no round limit option selected, what changes? Are more tiles added into the pot somewhere, or what exactly please.

Are GCDS and Ancient minis planned to be included eventually?

Hi Carriath!
There are 6 seats / colors available on the table and players have to pick one of the available ones. I always thought this is standard tabletop simulator behavior. Black, to the best of my knowledge is always reserved, otherwise I would have definitely added black, especially as the Orion faction in the physical board game is using black game pieces.
Can you maybe link a mod that works the way you would like me to implemented this one? I promise I will take a look!

Partial workaround. If you do start with 6 Players, one of them choosing black, and then on their turn have them change colors, you can play a 6 player game

More on that card, Just a card next to the rules that says... You have to pick these player colors, this way because TableTop Simulator reserves black for GM. These buttons do this... just a little image explaining the automations you've put in?

Kay, amazing mod. BUT, MAAAAJOR glitch in the hotseat mode, and maybe others. It took me more than an hour to figure this out, your mod locks the player colors to the token colors in the game. Worse, there is no handy "How this mod works" card that I could find telling people this.

Unfortunately that appears to rule out a 6 player game entirely as Tabletop simulator locks the Black token to the GM. We were pretty confused because we had players who wanted to be purple and orange, and it would not go to their turns no matter what I tried.

As a quick fix, can you please add a card explaining the neat little things your mod does? Like the buttons?

Then in the long run can you unlock player colors from token colors? I do get that having the player color match the token color can be helpful, but I think the boards and tokens in front of the players does it well enough.

@Kataya thank you for the kind words! I added alliances to my ToDo list, but things are very busy right now, so please don't expect an implementation soon.
Developments are a 1st edition mechanic. In the 2nd edition some of the effects are now re-balanced and covered by Minor Species (e.g. Ancient Monument), other Developments became Discovery Tiles, such as the Artifact Link. I currently do not plan to include the 1st edition implementation.

Amazing mod thank you ! Would it be possible to add the developments cards and the alliance token ?

Small Update: Pyxis Unity now have a custom control board for resource management, bringing them in line with all other factions.

@Okizime, thank you for the suggestion! I will look into it, but I can't promise anything, especially because Expanded Galaxies is the one expansion I don't own.

Would it be possible to also add Expanded Galaxies expansion at some time in the future? Really would like to play this with a large group and alliances seem very fun. Thank you for all your efforts in creating this board!

I've found a way around this (thanks to previous comments). Pull out those tiles before confirming setup.

Amazing mod! However, I can't seem to find a way to always have the advanced blueprints - as the only option is randomization.

Does this mod have sprites for npc ships?

will you ever add the 3d models made by SynthDark? orbitals are really cool

@Borek Thank you for bringing up the tokens for the turn order variant. My group mainly plays with the variant where the second player who passes defines whether turns go clock-wise or not.
I simply forgot to include tokens for the Turn Order Variant. This is easy to add, I'll try to get the tokens in over the weekend!

Pyxis Unity is a faction from the first edition that has not yet been officially released for Second Dawn.

Why are there no tokens for the Turn Order Variant for expansion races like The Exiles? And where did the Pyxis Unity race come from, as far as I know they weren't part of any expansions I've seen

@Kay Many thanks for the update!!

We experienced the same bug as David where the turn order vanished. I managed to turn turns back on and it all worked again though! Thanks for the mod, it works well :)

It took a while but the Enlightened of Lyra can now be selected as a playable faction. Enjoy!
All expansions are now fully covered and included.
Please let me know if you have feedback or further improvement suggestions!

Hello David, I will try to look into it this weekend. Thank you for the report!

We experienced an odd bug where after we finished the first round and hit "Next Round", the turn order star vanished and never returned.

Thank you John fort the kind words! Life is rather busy right now, but I hope to have the last expansion faction implemented before the end of the year.

@Kay - Hello. I/we fully appreciate this is a free mod you create in your own time, and we really appreciate it. I'd just like to know when you roughly (won't hold you to it :) ) when you think you'll be able to add the last new race to the game? Thanks John

@mmpgamer During the first round more tech tiles are being drawn according to the number of players (14 tiles for a 3 player game).
For all the following rounds the number of tiles is lower (6 for a 3-player game).

The number is also modified by rare / unique tech tiles being drawn. A rare tech tile does not count against the number of draws. If the draws for the 2nd round include 3 rare technologies, the total number of draws will be 9 (6 regular draws for a 3-player game + 3 rare technologies).
That's the reason why the numbers might appear random.

@BasLikeBoss: Starting materials have been fixed and are once again correctly setup according to the starting resources of each faction. Thank you very much for letting me know!

Played a 3 player network game. Seems like we got a random number of tech tiles each round (7 to 10), when I thought it was a consistent 14 for 3 players. I'm just going by the chat log, so maybe I missed something?

No matter which species I pick the starting materials is always zero. Easy to manually fix but curious bug

@Freakman Thank you letting me know! It is fixed now.
@Haruspex I somehow missed your comment, Eridani will now always receive their control board during setup!
@Alexander Individually selecting GCDS, Ancient or Guardian variants will no longer interfere with the game setup afterwards

seems I can't flip colony ships at all - using 'F' or right click submenu does nothing

@key cool, no stress. 😊

There is a bug: when you select Eridani Empire during setup, their table lacks a big counter with three circles for population and resources.
P.S. Thank you for your work!

@Alexander It's on my list of improvement ideas, but things are rather busy, -I'm not sure when I will get to it... :((
You can choose the *non-default* variants before the setup and simply take them out of their containers without affecting the setup.

Love this mod!
Is there any way to choose what ancient, guardian and GDCS to use for the game after setup?

I tried choosing before running the setup but that seems to break the setup, at least for tech in a 2 player hot-seat...

@Sir Gdank Thank you very much for the feedback! The sector tile is fixed.
I also made sure that a discovery tile that is manually placed on the Magellan player board will snap into place with the correct rotation.

@Sir Gdank Ideally the discovery tile will even be placed automatically during setup, that's my plan for the next update. ;-)
I will look into the starting sector as well!

@Kay Thanks for the continued support and updated. Two points of feedback on Wardens. 1. Their starting tile doesn't seem to fit the hex correctly - seems misshapen (was sitting at green). 2. Anyway to get their extra discovery tile to snap to the right place on their board? Thanks again!

Sweet!

The Wardens of Magellan have been updated based on their stats from the new Seekers expansion.

@Neelde44 I am already working on it

Is there a plan to include the new Seekers expansion as well? There seem to be 2nd edition updates for two of the 1st edition factions now!

@Kay Thank you! My real life Order for the expansions just been posted, can't wait to play this online and in real life.

Thank you for creating this, I am so grateful. I'm a new player and thanks to you I can practice this great game :)

I just added the "Outcasts" expansion.
Both the Rho Indi faction as well as the Exiles have been updated to the 2nd edition of Eclipse.
Enjoy!

Amazing! I own the board game, and this mod automates almost all of the setup and Inbetween rounds maintenance.

@Sir Gdank I definitely plan to include the add-ons, once they are released

Are you going to Add Outcasts and Seekers when released?

Really enjoying this version. (I have the physical board game also.) I just struggling to figure out how you pass? I don't see the option, and when I hit "Next Round" it puts out the new techs, but then I cannot ever advance further than the first player up. Am I missing something? Thanks

@Kallin You can manually select specific versions for Guardians, Ancients and the Galactic Center *before* performing the automated setup.
The bags storing all variants are in the same positions you will find the selected tiles after the setup.

great mod! is it possible to find the tiles for NPCs? I know there is the randomize difficulty option, but what if I just want a level 2 guardians, everything else level 1?

Thank you for this mod. I have played 10+ games of 4 to 6 players and it is great.
I am just waiting for having the races expansion in TTS https://en.lautapelit.fi/product/45705/eclipse---2nd-dawn-outcasts-eng