Ok EvilleJedi, I got it.

Awesome. 

I apologize if this has already been covered (I can't really go through 1000 posts heh), but are the models incredibly small or have you increased the size of everything else? I'm assuming the size difference probably has something to do with making room for the SSD and making the battlefield larger?

As well I'd like to praise you for a few little things, such as using Star Wars Universe planet names, putting in names of certain starships (such as the Chimaera), and having a wide variety of ships used by all the factions using their real designations. I've played mods of various games before where a MC80 would just be called a "Star Cruiser" and there would be no winged variant. Where a Nebulon-B frigate would just be a frigate. I know its not much, but I appreciate the detail. And I could tell you obviously are trying to be as close as possible to SWU ship stats when I saw a calamari cruiser with something like 14000 shield points and only what, like 2000 hull, when compared to the star destroyers that had less shielding capacity but a tougher hull.

Obviously room for improvement, but hey, I've got no real complaints. I don't have the time, patience, or skill to make a mod half as good as this one.

"If you don't like it, make it yourself!"

I like it, and I couldn't make it myself.

Yes, the sizes are scaled for large battles. This is intended - unless there are major reasons to do so, I don't see Eville rescaling things again. It's a lot of work

Eville is trying to keep things as close to canon as possible. Where there are inconsistancies, I'm sure he has taken some artistic license. However, if you see something that is obviously wrong, feel free to point it on on our bug tracker

Thanks for the great praise. I'm sure there will be continued improvements as long as there is support from the fans!

yeah re scaling things was necessary, but it is a huge amount of work because I had to rescale effects and speeds and everything, not just the models and their hardpoints

I noticed when fighters/bombers attacked hangar defense platforms, they would only shoot at one odd location not attached to the mesh. Other ships would shoot it all over though. Not sure if that is fixable, or even worth fixing.

I was wondering, could we have the capital ships and larger cruisers focus more on fleet enhancing passive abilities, and have small cruisers and all frigates have the more active abilities?

Example: for CIS, instead of having an ion cannon and weapons scramble for both the ECM ship and Battle cruisers (forgot the name) why not have the battle cruiser have a close range passive jamming ability that lowers accuracy and range of ships by x %. Then have the ECM ship have a long range active weapon jammer that only jams one target ship.

For the empire use more things like oppression on the star destroyers, and for the Alliance have rally or martyrdom abilities no the MC's

The reason I suggest this is because original sins is all about the strategic level, but by midgame it becomes way too tedious to micro all the abilities on all the ships. With SOGE it's even worse because there are way more ships at play. If we move more ships to a passive ability set up, we'll have more strategic level play. instead of clicking each star destroyer to attack target x, we would be moving fleets into strategic positions. 

So far though, I've really liked the play style in this mod. I enjoy have those large ships engage one another. The bolt action weapons are really cool to look at. 

OH one last thing. I play this on some specialised maps and it seems to work even better than sins, the only thing I'd like to change myself is hyperspace speeds between planets and stars. Any hints where I could do that?

(I have solar systems with a few planets set up, and many systems, I want to have them jump faster between planets)

most of the abilities are set to auto and the ones you really want to control are on the capital ships, the capital abilities are a lot more effective and the cruiser abilities for the most part are designed to fire automatically, certianly you can micro more if you want, but that's an option not a necessity, I find myself usually moving the capital ships and letting the cruisers do their own thing once they are in the proper area.

in the player files after the research definitions is the hyperspace block, it has a speed you can adjust. you may have to use the bin -> txt command line tool that is in your sins install folder.

I like the idea of more strategic, passive abilities for capital ships. I'm sure if you had some ideas, talk to Eville and psychoak on whether they could be implemented

Hey team just wanted to say how much I enjoy the mod so far.  Obviously you guys have put alot of time and effort into making the mod at the level it's at now.  It's really awesome.

Just a quick question for anyone who...like me...loves the Star Wars soundtracks.  I've been toying around with the idea of replacing the music (for my own personal use of course) with original score tracks.  I've got the Alliance and Imperials pretty much replaced to my liking, but I'm having trouble with music for the CIS and Republic.  I'm trying to keep it as close to the era as possible (example, Alliance and Imperials music is taking from Episodes IV, V, and VI).  If anyone would have any suggestions, that would be cool.

You can tell I'm a nerd, I have all the soundtracks from all the movies.

Yeah I should have also mentioned that the abilities that were in place didn't require nearly as much micro as original sins.

Thanks for the info!

Any plans of adding space stations?

One of the things you might not have noticed with some of the more micro intensive abilities is that the short range radius effects have a longer range than they target for.  I kept running them in to cast, so I figured why would anyone want it autocasting at the edge of effect.  I'm a lazy bastard, so I put effort into making it so I didn't have to manually cast anything I didn't have to.  Pretty much everything outside of the really bad news like super lasers and ion dispersal cannons is basically fire and forget.  The only ability I really dislike having on autocast is Cluster Warheads, and that's on missile cruisers.

There are still quite a few capital ships that could use more than they have, the Praetor is particularly sparse, only having six levels to aquire.

There are currently no star bases in the mod and the Civilian research has not been modified, it will be modified in the future

 

Hint: implies that starbases will be in the future...

wait... what???   did he just say starbases?????? 

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Starbases?

Um hey guys...

I'm a noob and still cant seem to figure out which ship does the colonozation.  I think its the Star Destroyer Capital.  The other thing I can't figure out is how to capture mining facilities on neutral spots.  What ship does that?  Once they are captured by another faction can I capture them again?  Also what exactly is oppresson supposed to do.  Does it just make other ships hold their distance from my mighty SDs? 

I think the balance is real good btw I pretty much got pwned on a 3v3 computer.  I'm not real good at playing though and it took me forever to capture the first ice planet because no normal ship would seem to do it.

Nice models and textures!

acclamators and botajefs for the republic

gladiators and ISD I capital for the imperials

gallofrees and capital diplomatic cruisers for the Alliance

droid control ship and CIS carrier for the CIS