Music Overhaul
I've compiled 60 tracks from various movie scores and other sources to (hopefully) improve the gameplay experience. I took parts from movies like Kingdom of Heaven, 13th Warrior, King Arthur, Gladiator, Alexander, First Knight, Braveheart, LOTR, Conan, a few from Two Steps from Hell and others.
Extract into SSHIP folder, then go to data/sounds and delete events.dat, events.idx, music.dat and music.idx. Save-game compatible.
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New Byzantine settlement textures
I've been playing around with the settlement textures trying to create more realistic looking Byzantine settlements. Also notice the new ports and a unique Byzantine watchtower, reworking of the NE model.
Credit goes to Aura for his Theodosian wall textures.
Extract byzsettlements.rar into your SSHIP folder and overwrite. Save-game compatible.
No region borders on mini map
This is a very tiny addition that removes region borders on the radar map.
Copy the descr_sm_factions.txt into the SSHIP data folder and overwrite. Save-game compatible.