You could try modding out the vanilla races, and perhaps your least favorite of the Star Wars races.

Which is funny because what he has in the image is an Imperial Lambda Shuttle

Thats what i mistook it for. They do have very similar shapes and the fighters are very tiny so it was easy to get them mixed up.

If anyone wants to modify the stock races to have higher hull shield and damage values I will include that in the future if you send it to me.

How bout get rid of the stock races alltogether

Super Star Dread shields and hulls don't regenerate past a certain point when upgrades are applied to them, they stay at the base stats from what I saw

Some bugs(?) I have found:

- Random minidumps during combat when I zoom in during combat, playing as Imperials vs rebel alliance.

- The repair platform cannot repair, and seems to have the wrong shield regeneration ability. Its ability doesn't restore shields, but envelops a friendly ships causing damage taken by that ship to be split and redirected to the repair station. This may be intended but it seems extremely unlogical.

- When a carrier uses his 'spawn additional bombers' ability, a bomber from the original Sins race spawns. (in the case of Imperials a Vasari bomber)

- Certain research objects fall outside the research window, making them unable to get researched.

Some balance stuff:

- The imperial missile cruiser is overpowered for its cost. It can eat any other cruiser for breakfast while costing less.

- Bombers do too little damage. They should be slower and more vulnerable to fighters to compensate for a damage increase.

- Pirates are somewhat unbelievable. Wave after wave of huge fleets, they pale the rebel alliance in terms of ships and manpower. The time between pirate attacks should be longer.

- Less ships should have the AOE anti-fighter ability, as it makes fighters/bombers fairly useless. When a pirate fleet jumps in my system for example, guarded by 4 hangar defenses, my 12 fighter and 12 bomber squadrons all get annihilated in seconds, posing little to no threat to the pirate fleet.

plz explain "minidump"

I've been on forums for a while but havent figured that out yet...

'Minidump' is a file created by the game upon crashing. Used to find out/fix what caused the crash by Ironclad. Modders do not have access to the file contents.

Played 3 hours of Alliance versus 5 other Empire races before I minidumped.  I had all the other players as Empire since that faction seems to be rock solid stable.  This way, being the only non Empire,  I could be ~100% sure any minidumps would be something I personally did.

GLITCH REPORTS:

1.  What I think caused the minidump was when I tried to use the MC40 Cruiser's Ion Canon (first time I tried to use it).  It was almost dead and I tried to get one shot off with the Ion Canon and the game minidumped.  OR it could have something to do with the MC40 being destroyed while I had the target icon for the Ion Canon up and was trying to target an enemy ship.

2. The Imperator's 'Demo Bots' ability doesn't actually show up when you sink ability points into it.  It also wastes the points you put towards it.

3.  The Alliance Military Tech Research section 'Substance' was 'squished' against the section above.  I couldn't research anything lower than the Nova Canon in that whole window.

4.  The Alliance Civilian Tech Research section 'Materialism' had the top buttons 'squished' against the 'Perception' window.  I couldnt' research Fortification, Tactical extra slots, the reddish orange ring thing, Hardened cities or planetary shield upgrades.

BALANCE REPORTS:

1.  Seems that I generally don't use frigates or most cruisers (just not as cost effective as Cap Ships)....of course, against a human that likely would quickly change.

2.  Fighters do far too well against frigates/cruisers/caps/platforms.  They really should only be useful against fighters, bombers (ESPECIALLY), trade/resource ships, constructors and colonizing frigates.

3.  Bombers might need a +5% bonus against medium/heavy/very heavy armor targets.  Maybe also slow them down a bit compared to fighters.

4.  I still don't like how ships can regen antimatter during combat.  This tends to heavily favor the defender.  Besides, how do the supply ships deliver AM while the shields are raised?  No Star Trek Teleporters allowed here!

MISC THOUGHTS:

1.  Eternal Dragon mentioned that shields and hulls on SSDs don't regen.  I think they do, it just feels a lot longer than other ships because of the massive values involved.

2.  I am fine with bases being bigger than the ships.  That is generally how it is in the StarWars Universe anyway.

3.  I really don't like how the cap ships end up with ability points that can't be used.  It is really distracting once you get huge fleets and you are trying to upgrade the caps.

I would imagine that you are planing on tweaking the abilities to have multiple levels = we'll have a use for all our points.

7.  It might be a good idea to have Max Shield Recharge give a 500% shield recharge bonus and last 2 minutes (no way to interupt).  This would simulate manually rerouting all power systems into the shield generators.  However, the penalties of using this ability should reduce engine/weapon/ability power to ZERO (no need for the extra damage penalty).

Would make for some interesting decisions for when to use it.  It would also be unfortunate if somebody chooses to use this ability just before the enemy shows up = they can't fire back or move for 2 minutes.

QUESTIONS:

1.  Do the different fighters and bombers have different values in terms of speed/manuverability?  I know they do in terms of hull strenght and weapons (you can see that simply by hovering the cursor over the units).

2.  Any chance on seeing a Sovereign or Eclipse type Dreadnaught for the Empire (or pirates lol)?

3.  As it is, is there a chance for weapon fire to miss against any ships besides strikecraft?  I was just wondering about the value of the Targetting Uplink ability.

4.  The Alpha Strike ability shows as having a 0% PENALTY to weapons cooldown rate....is this what it is supposed to be?

5.  The Saturation Fire ability shows as having a 50% PENALTY to weapon cooldown rate AND a 75% BONUS to speed and a 25% BONUS to acceleration....this can't be right, can it???

6.  Ion Bolt shows as actually giving the following BONUSES to targets hit:

-0.8 per sec Antimatter recharge BONUS

-150% Ability Cooldown rate BONUS

-75% Shield Restore Rate BONUS

-75% Max Speed BONUS

-75% Acceleration BONUS

Is this how it is meant to be?

It's bugged I tell ya BUGGED! mmmm I think your right on that shield and hull regen thing there, though I never had the chance to find out when I was playing empire cause the game mini-dumped while I was about to take my 4th or 5th planet, not sure if I was about to zoom in or not... also... for empire, on it's scout ship, the very first frig you use for it the shield animation is wacked it's standing on bottom to top, basically the front end of the ships shields points UP and the bottem DOWN. I see that and go WTF?

Let me start by saying "WOW!" That was one of the most amazing mods I've ever played. congrats Eville, you've outdone yourself again. And now, I have to ask, why can you only play one map? Granted, it's a wok in progress, but the only way I can play other maps is to delete all the other ones and then restore them once I have started. I don't know if it's just me, or if someone else has had this problem (have skim read through all the posts, but I could have missed something). Oh and before I forget, one more thing. Why do Victory II class frigates (cruisers) not join up with all the other ships when you create a fleet? Once again, I know it's a work in progress, but just as an FYI.

Keep up all the good work, and I can't wait for the Entrenchment release (because that's no moon...),

Shauny B

...Its a space station.

You copy the galaxies you want into the galaxy folder of the mod. Or you can just delete the mods galaxy folder.

I think its the litle triangle cruiser you talkin about so if it is, the reason Victory II star destroyers dont join the fleet is because its a colony ship. The colony ship for normal sins is the same way.

And Eville, i have a deathstar 3ds file with textures of it, endor and tatooine if youre interested.

Well, maybe with the new ship scale, it might be possible for a Death Star...but it would still be pretty awkward to move around and would have tons of pathfinding/collision issues.