Modding Diaspora

A long time ago Diaspora started off as a mod for a game for Freespace 2. It has since grown, evolved, split off from the original team and in many other ways completely changed. But we've never forgotten our roots. So we know that there will be people out there who want to mod Diaspora in the same way that we started on Freespace 2.

The Diaspora team respect those of you who want to do this but we do have a few requests.

• Please don't try to undercut us or step on our toes. We know you want to play with the Galactica, we know you want to see the Pegasus in game. We're working on it but quality takes time. Please don't release quick and dirty versions of the ships from the show. The Diaspora team intend to make every single ship seen in the show.

  If you have the talent to make those ships well, apply to join the team. We really need talented modellers and having two people end up working on the same ship just ends up wasting someone's time. Any time we spend working on a Galactica model, only to have yours be as good or better, was time we could have spent making something else instead.

  If you can only make a poor quality version, or convert someone else's from a different mod/game, please don't release it. People will assume it's official and it could get us into a lot of unnecessary trouble.

• Feel free to work on your own designs. The Diaspora team will however, be happy to help you if you want to make your own Battlestar Galactica style ships or if you want to alter ours. If you check our forums you'll also find links to the FS2_Open modding community who can also help you learn how to mod the game.
• Try to avoid code forks. If you're a coder, you really should avoid trying to go it alone. The SCP would probably love to have you on board and you'll soon find that trying to maintain your own codebase separate from ours ends up being far too much work.

Beyond that, have fun.