First off I'd like to say DAMN, this mod rocks!!  I absolutely love the direction I see your are taking with this.  It's Mini dumping too much for me to play good games right now but just when I start to get upset I have to remind myself your not even to a 1.0 release yet.  So yea,  I can't wait till its solid.  I was going to write a couple suggestions/questions but then I realized I got no business making suggestions on an unfinished mod nor should I ask questions when I haven't read 26 pages of posts on the subject so well just leave it at, "I can't wait till its done!" 

You are officially my favorite new fan krunkert

We do obviously take suggestions, but we appreciate the time it takes to go through these posts so we don't repeat ourselves. I'm sure the minidumps will get resolved, Eville is hard at work on it.

If you feel like something hasn't been addressed before or isn't resolved, just ask.

This pretty much says everything I was going to.

I really cant wait for this one. What I do get to play before the mini dumps is enough to really get me excited. Once this goes to Entrenchment (if it makes it there) I will sure be there with you.

Wish I knew something about coding so i could offer some help Lets just say you have all the positive thoughts I can send your way....hope it helps some

thanks for your work

Alright, after over 2.5 hours of playing a custom map with 189 planets and 4v4 (alliance v. Republic v. Empire v. CIS), I hit two minidumps.

Minidump #1:

        situation- beginning of an engagement between Alliance and Republic, zoomed in on a lvl 5 MC80 heavy star   

cruiser as the fighter squadrons from both sides converged on eachother.

        ships involved-

         Alliance: 4 MC80 HSC (3@lvl4, 1@lvl5)x5 x-wing, 4 MC30 missle cruisers, 8 Assault MKII, 10Heavy corellian gunships.

         Republic: 3 dreadnaughts, 9 Acc. II, 5 Centax, 3 Victors, 5 Vindicators, 8 CC-2200, 2 Carracks, 3 Bojef, 2 Consular

Minidump #2:

                  situation- after rebooting, I had zoomed away from the battle. Onceit was eveident the enemy retreated, my MC80s started bombarding the planet while the other ships and fighters busied themselves with the orbiting strucutrs in the area. Then a Consular Cruiser dropped in and I zoomed in on it. As my fighters closed in, BAM minidump.

I hope this helps even a little. I'll keep playing so as to find anymore situations.

Played several hours on Gateway with 5 AI Empire players and me as Alliance.  This is the first time I played with any race besides Empire without expiriencing ANY minidumps (well, I had two while exiting the game...but who cares since I was done playing).

The only difference between prior Alliance player games and this one, was that I DIDN'T build any MC80A capital ships.

Oh, the Alliance also kicks the Empire's rear in terms of ship quality and abilities.  I tried beating the other 5 AI players on Gateway with everyone as Empire, and got my rear handed to me every time.  However, the Alliance sliced their way through Imperial fleets like nothing.

One Independence Star Cruiser, escorted by 1-2 Mon Remonda Cruisers and a few MC30c Cruisers = dead Imperial Fleet (unless it is truely massive or has allied support).

Between battles, having the ability to maximize shield recharge rates also gives the Alliance ships a much longer lifespan.  Not having to pump out the replacement ships really goes a long ways economy wise.

I do prefer playing as the alliance, but i have noticed two things:

1. X-wing squadrons apparently hate me enough to refuse my orders to attack enemy squadrons. Instead, they simply go after that squadron's host ship. i have, though, on occassion caught a glimpes of some X-wings going after enemy squadrons on their own. Now, i know the X-wing is more attack-fighter than pure fighter, but was the balance shifted more towards attack-bomber, perhaps? I'm asking because, when I produce ships like the MC80-HSC, who's fighter compliment consists of X-wings AND bombers, I only produce X-wings for previously mentioned reason...that and simply because they're X-wings.

2.the Mon Remonda, liek the Imperial class IIs seem to have a common issue: Upon jumping into an enemy gravity well they simpy sit there. Granted, any ship that comes within range of the guns gets thoroughly perferated, and the fighters and bombers do launch, but that's it. However, the Mon Remonda does angle itself to face the charging AI and, once all enemy ships are destroyed, does sometimes actually move in to bombard the enemy planet. Now, while I doubt you, Eville, would have given these ships a 'dick captain' program ("you all can attack me if you want, but I ain't movin. You'll get close, but my guns will rip you apart without giving you a chance to even open fire. Why? Because my ship is awesome, and your little bath-toys are just floating pre-debri."(This is what i imagine the program would be 'thinking')), what do you suppose the issue is?

As I do prefer to check and see if anyone else is experiencing the same thing i am.....is anyone else experiencing the same thing i am?

im having exactly the same problems aswell as there not being a y wing mesh at all?

note the 'list of things notto report' up in the topic description. It is a list of issues and bugs already known to Eville and co.

But yes, there aren't any meshes for the y-wings, ARC-170s, and various other strike craft.

EVILLE, PLEASE READ THIS

I am quite well aware that what I now suggest could be interpreted as presumptuous, and most likely displays an astonishing lack of even the most basic understanding of how SoSE works, but I would like to suggest a rather large change to the basic structure of this mod.  In short, I would like to see culture become the most important feature of this mod.

To my knowledge, culture percentage can affect ship stats in the form of shield mitigation, and I am presuming that it can affect other stats as well.  If this is not so, than just stop reading this and have a good chuckle at my expense.  All I know for sure is that there is some kind of boost “in friendly culture” for shield mitigation.  It would be best for the purposes of my argument if this boost was proportional to just how friendly the culture is, instead of being a simple true/false scenario.  I know that capital ships, at least, have a culture spreading and a culture repelling affect, and I also base some of my ideas on the assumption that this affect can be applied to frigates and cruisers at will.  Assuming these things, I now make my argument.

I came to this view as something of a fanciful epiphany, but become more and more convinced that it could work as I think on it.  Currently antimatter recharging is accomplished by placing ships near logistics structures.  This is a noble attempt to represent the need for fleets to be supplied, but is somewhat unwieldy and forces an unacceptable amount of micromanagement on the player.  If culture percentage can affect any stats, then I suggest that antimatter regeneration be directly related to the culture of the gravity well a spacecraft is occupying.  This means that your ships will regenerate antimatter in friendly gravity wells or (hopefully) in enemy gravity wells penetrated with friendly culture; giving them a significant edge in combat, and (if culture bonus really is proportional to the percent of culture) that the effectiveness of fleets fighting for the core worlds would increase as maximum allegiance goes up nearer to the capital.  This could also be used to make the game more challenging for large empires, with poor logistics at the end of long supply lines, and give smaller defending empires more of a fighting chance.

(Note: I’m pretty rusty on my Star Wars lore, so feel free to criticize me on my characterizations of the factions)

This culture-based antimatter regeneration offers a range of new options to differentiate the factions.  The Alliance could gain greater boosts from friendly culture and have more effective propaganda spreading, this giving them more of a guerilla feel and forcing disproportionate responses from other factions in order to deal with Rebel propaganda, thus tying up resources that would otherwise be put into world-conquering fleets that the Alliance really shouldn’t be able to match toe-to-toe.  The Republic could gain similar advantages, just to a less degree.  The CIS could be something of a middle ground, with some mildly-evil tendencies balanced out by their fighting the oppressive Palpatine Republic.  The Empire, of course, would need the most culture support to operate and be extremely susceptible to enemy propaganda, allowing you to make the Empire’s ships qualitatively and quantitatively superior to everyone else’s, but still balance the game.  That brings up one of the greatest benefits of using culture more actively: It adds another way to balance out the factions.  All cries of “but the Rebels could never beat the Empire in a fair fight!” will be forever silenced because they won’t have to; they’ll just make the fight unfair.

My second assumption, that any ship can spread culture, is actually quite crucial to this culture-based game working effectively.  If every single ship in the game can give a differing amount of culture repression or support, than this system could actually be workable.  The Alliance propaganda structures could be very effective while their ships could have very little culture repression and a culture boosting affects, this determined by their power; on the other extreme the Empire’s propaganda structures would be nearly useless, especially compared to their incredibly intimidating and reassuring battle fleets.

This in turn allows for an indirect warfare where scouts lighter ships may actually make a difference.  You could send in cheap units in preparation for an attack and weaken the culture of your enemy with their presence.  This could give rise to entirely new strategies; such as sending cheap, fast ships to weaken the culture of the core enemy planets even while dealing with their border fleets on outlying planets.

 EDIT: I almost forgot this, and it's pretty important.

If your fleets really have a cultural punch, then you could gain control of a planet without having to bombard it into slag.  This would give a more profitable way to take over planets for those willing to spend the time, and could simulate "surrender" and stop you from having to have the Alliance indiscriminately bombard civilian populations.  This might even allow you to do away with bombardments completely, with “invasion” abilities injecting a large amount of your culture without damaging the planet (if you can code that into an ability).  You could still bombard planets at need, of course, but it would no longer be the only viable option.

Thank you for reading this far.  I apologize if I have wasted your time with my idea, or if what I propose is simply impossible, but I think that it is worth considering.

Freaking cool idea the question is if its possible

Thank you; and yes, that is the question.  I would like it if someone who knows the answer would comment.

so in 0.9 you guys made the "Super Capitals" extremely small??

does anyone have 0.75? i mean anyone, not just the devs

Hi EviliroN, it isn't that the caps are made smaller, it is that the scale of all ships is reduced.  So, SSDs are still many times larger than Star Destroyers which in themselves are much larger than cruisers.

It really works out better this way for 2 main reasons.  Ship sizes look more 'realistic' (ie, less ridiculous) compared to planets and grav wells.  Also, ship pathfinding works much better now compared to when ships were oversized.

Yeah i completely understand why you guys did it. it makes total sense.

i just have a mod i play by myself, that i made, and i use a couple of your meshes.

i thought 0.75>0.9 would have better textures or updated models or something, so

i just copy+pasted without even checking. all is good, found a 0.75 floating around somewhere

thanks

Culture is true/false in terms of bonuses as far as I am aware.

I don't think capital ships can spread culture 'natively' but you can add a passive culture spread through an ability if you so desired.