See the Setting-up Mods page for more details. The game features a sandbox mode, allowing the player to choose different types of solar. The playing field is a 3D web of planets and other celestial objects in the orbital plane of one or more stars. Sins supports mods internally, and the developers have went to great lengths to support modding, even incorporating numerous bug fixes made by the community into the 1.2 patch for Trinity/Diplomacy.Ī common category of mods are total conversion mods, which use the framework of Sins of a Solar Empire to depict a conflict set in a different franchise. Sins of a Solar Empire is a space-bound real-time strategy game in which players control one of three different races: the industrial TEC, the psychic Advent, or the alien Vasari. Numerous mods are available for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.

Mods (short for modifications) are a variety of fan-produced content that alters the game.

Mods work by simply providing the different files to use. The engine will attempt to find the files it needs in mods before searching the root game path.