Stainless Steel 7.0 Lost Files release this year

[Arshak I]

Uh oh..

[Tintin2]

Is this still on going?

[Ego123]

Has anyone heard of any updates on this? I hope this wasn't the ultimate fake news of 2020

The thread was created by Germanicu, impossible to be just fake news.

[a1aska]

Has anyone spoken to him since then? Jonesing for an update

[Rinhood]

Why do this? Why give me hope...

[Korsan82]

So this is dead again I guess

[b0Gia de Bodemloze]

Let's have faith.

[lookclap]

why not can see the photos?

[lookclap]

Hi guys,

it's still bugging me, that SS 7.0 has never seen the light of day, despite great amount of time our team contributed to it.
This is why I have started a salvage project intended to release the content that had been developed and agreed on by the development team between 2011 and 2014.

Stainless Steel 7.0 Lost Files
ETA: 6 weeks (beta-ish)

I am in no condition to provide full support, integration, bugfixing etc, that is why I am counting on integrating/bugfixing help from this great community. Nevertheless this is the closest we will get to 7.0.
Luckily I dug out all contributions and integrations by gracul, I have all the mods I developed, so code-wise we are good.

So what kind of content can you expect?

1. Full Preview I features

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Preview I: Gameplay Features


Stainless Steel team proudly presents new line of gameplay-enhancing modifications deeply rooted in medieval history. Bringing you more fun every day.

Great Discoveries

Great Discoveries let you recreate paths of most daring naval and land voyages, shaping your own history of exploration. Features: - 3 sea and 2 land exploration directions - 14 landmark discoveries recreated - everything based on historical travels and art - prestige, titles and income attributed to each journey - possibility to rewrite history and speed up some game events - triggered by owning certain regions and maintaining fleet on high seas

Autonomous Regions

A bow towards sovereignities that fell victims to game engine limitations. Features: - Reenactment of 4 Autonomous Fiefdoms at player's disposal - Granting partial independence results in large variety of possible bonuses, depending on region's historical background

Advanced Missions and Rewards

A whole range of totally new customised missions and rewards opening exciting gameplay-enhancing possibilities. Directly utilised in some of below mentioned modifications.

Papal Investiture

As expressed by the entire crusade movement, The Pope is desperate to keep political supremacy in christian world Features: - When in need, the Pope will ask you to lead a purely punitive expedition against Pagans or followers of Allah - The sole purpose of such endeavour is death and destruction - Varying rewards and bonuses - From time to time His Holiness, when feeling such urge, may ask you to return crusade target in order to fulfill obligations towards the Holy Church - You will be greatly awarded... or punished for not doing so, this will affect your position among other christian rulers

Terminate Crusading Army

During crusades period the problem of each non-christian ruler was not if, but when a pack of greedy, yet zealous individuals makes land at their footstep, now is the time to show them the power of Allah... or Perkun. Features: - Rewarding missions for targetting invasion forces - Randomised goals and rewards

Golden Age

Every civilisation reaches its peak at some point, you can ensure it occurs during your rule Features: - each exploration stage and great building constructed brings you closer to your goal - your population will benefit from greater productivity, growth rate and trade income once Golden Age starts

Spoils of War

New complex Spoils of War script awards player for battle victories.Features: - new system of rewards : attacker gets more money - winning with odds against a player gives additional funds, particularly when heavily outnumbered - the bigger AI army is, the better rewards - when scoring a heroic victory against much bigger enemy, additional reward from The Council may be granted

Leader Development

Specifically constructed to award adventurous faction leaders Features: - achievement tracking - a range of innovative and most satisfying rewards - rewards get better with game progress

Privateers

An opportunity to invest into shady, yet profitable entrerprise Features: - Player can issue letters of marque to a privateer - A share in bounty will be issued to player - If privateer is caught, your reputation wil suffer

New Background \ Loading Screens and Art

2. 80% - 100% of Preview II features

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Preview II: Gameplay Features II

The Stainless Steel team proudly presents the second line of gameplay features. Remember folks, this is not everything we have!


Re-emergent Factions


Interactive Festivals


Ally Assistance


Controllable Inquisitors


Godlike Difficulty


Autopillage

3. New Economy Script (tested over nearly 3k turns)

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

FRSM01 is the choice, I hope the content is at least vaguely clear, tested on autoplay and monitored via scripts and Debugview)Attachment 362958

4. Gracul's Bugfixes, integrations, features as per list

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(internal communication)Attachment 362957

5. New setup and installer (Steam-compatible)

Later stage:
6. Community bugfixes
7. RC/RR 2.0 integration
8. Content by Kahvi and HoTW
9. Other content

More details to come in the following weeks.

Regards

CAN you post or upload all the photos again ,I could see it on the web here . thanks

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I could not see the photo ,can you upload it again,thanks

[b0Gia de Bodemloze]

[lookclap]

Can you upload the photo of Knights Hospitaller and The Knights Templar sent before ,again?thanks

Last year I can see the photos ,but now ,I can not see it on the site here

[Sete]

Is this still happening? I got a couple suggestions.

[Just let me post]

We believe

[Used2BRoz]

Late to the party as usual.
Didn't notice this thread when it was first posted.
S.S. 7.0 was always assumed to be a mythic object, something that one might hope to find, but was told it was never going to happen.
I've forgotten most of what I knew about modding -but would be happy to test and suggest improvements etc.
My wishlist be short :

A simple all-in-one installer that installs everything needed for the base game.
Make it simple to add mods, bug fixes etc.

erm that's about it.

[Sete]

My couple suggestions would be a change for Aventuros, they should not be a Tercio Unit but a 2 handed sword (Montante) one.
For historical reference:
From the mid-15th century onwards, the lower and middle-ranking leadership of Portuguese expeditions and of the resulting overseas outposts were the fidalgos – gentlemen descended from the old knightly class. The importance of such men was highlighted by Azurara (Gomes Eanes de Zurara) during the second half of the 15th century. His Chronicle of the King Dom João I described the force assembled to attack Ceuta, the most enthusiastic being younger men who ‘ardently desired to acquire the merits of those who had given them life [their fathers], and following their example, to furnish proofs of their courage and loyalty’.

“Success led to a rapid expansion of a class known as the ‘nobility of service’, so that by the 16th century numerous fidalgos from minor and often poor aristocratic families would hang around the royal court, eager for a chance to show their worth. Consequently, the Portuguese government was able to employ large numbers in its armadas and overseas captaincies, their exploits filling the 16th century chronicles and literature.”
Nicolle ill. Embleton 2012 p13-14

So now that we established that leadership was from Nobility let’s look at their conduct:

Crowley 2015 p228
“The military code of the fidalgos valued heroic personal deeds over tactics, the taking of booty and prizes over the achievement of strategic objectives. Men-at-arms were tied by personal and economic loyalties to their aristocratic leaders rather than to an overall commander. Victories were gained by acts of individual valor rather than rational planning. The Portuguese fought with a ferocity that stunned the peoples of the Indian Ocean, but their methods were medieval and chaotic and, not infrequently, suicidal.”
The historian João de Barros summarized its consequences for captains and commanders: ‘that in decisions about whether to fight … so that honorable deeds may be done, even if dangerous, they must not raise objections based on the personal safety of their lives.’ Henceforward prudence was impossible. No one felt able to refuse an engagement, however rash, without accusations of cowardice. Only bravery of the most explicit kind would suffice. The honor code of the fidalgos was accentuated to the extent of an emphasis on hand-to-hand combat over the distant destruction of cannon fire."

Crowley 2015 p278 (describing fidalgos at Goa, 1512)

“[T]he nobles wished to wield their enormous two-handed swords in heroic single combat, winning booty and polishing their reputations…”

Fidalgos who were nobles, clad head to toe in an expensive full set of armour, always at the top commanding positions, and also formed the veritable “spearhead” of assaults. Most notably, they wielded some scary two-handed swords the Portuguese called montante which in the right hands was capable of cutting an un-armoured person (arguably the most common kind of foe the Portuguese faced in the east) in half, if the chronicles are to be trusted. But because they were nobles, they weren’t bound to any kind of uniformity when it came to arms or armour, so it varied; they also used shields, broad swords and halberds. Rather uniquely, these nobles were accompanied into the heat of the fray by personal servants who would carry their weapons and fight alongside them.

Also Portugal should have Grand Carrack as they were the main Naval power until 1580.

[b0Gia de Bodemloze]

Hope to not need to wait 10 more years for the next update.

[RomanSpoon]

What the hell happened? Is Germanicu5 gone?

[Korsan82]

I mean... Ok.... this mod is for free and we don't pay a single cent to the creators.

But what is the point in making such a post and then just disappear again? We are not in a demanding position or something as we already long forgot about this. But I really would like to know the reasoning behind such an announcement if there is no plan to actually release anything even close to the given timeframe of 6 week(ish)?

I find myself comming here too often just to check for news. I think I have to stop this.

[Sweyn78]

Just found this today. Seems 6 weeks has now turned into a full year. Fingers crossed we hear something eventually.