hey x i could try and nut out a teamcolour texture so we know who is who

Oh yeah me and thrawn were talking in-game that that would be a cool idea for now (unless you guys ever get a skinner D:!!) lol is there any skinners on the Specialist Games forums??

That string not found was from the first mod you sent to us.

Anyways you should make little patches of team color in the final skins (like sins is now) so you can tell them apart lol.

Yeah I'm saying if you do ever get (real) skins...lol

Doubling ship metal costs, saving crystal for researches when we get those. I think I'll double crystal costs for carriers too. I'm going to switch the arcage of the slaughter's weapons, and that should be a good temporary fix (with the prow guns added in, they should be slaughters, not slaughtered ) I think the fighter glitch is with sins itself, so I'll wait for a patch on that one. I'm also going to tweak the support costs for the next version, so that should deal with most of that stuff.

I've got team colored ships working (hooray!), so that's one thing down. The rest of the stuff is going to take a while, it's my mom's birthday.

How many points do you guys want available in the endgame? I'd say somewhere around 8-10k, because you'r eonly likely to hit the highest level of income in larger maps, and there you'll want/need 3-4 fleets of decent size, and 2k is a good fleet size, it's not too few, and hopefully few enough that instakills go out the window. Sound good? Also, to do this, I'd love to know how many fleet slot researches you generally get by lategame in small, medium and large maps so I can tailor the lower slots. Thanks.

Thanks. I'm going to cap at 8-10k points of fleet and 8 battleships, with a differently priced but more linear upgrade scale. I've got ship experience and supply costs set up now. You'll notice experience is way easier to get, and it should help battleships be more survivable. I'm also bringing training in, and making it possible to train to higher levels. If this sounds bad for some reason, please object. Escorts are now discounted (all three are cheaper in supply costs, and the Iconoclast and Infidel are just plain cheaper). Keep in mind that for now the only escort with its full firepower is the Iconoclast, so reserve judgement on the two till they get the right attack types. (Especially the Infidel, it'll get two torps to punch through shields.

EDIT: I can't stand the wait and want to get this update out, so here you go, version 4 is now out.

Oh, and what's the point of winning a sins battle? this mod cannot be merged with sins without much difficulty, so it exists in a vacuum. Therefore, we get to chuck out some of the old conventions.

well as soon as i get my ass into gear (mind the language) i can get us some working ships (escorts should be done soon for all you testers) and then i just have to not screw up the textures and get the cruisers working and then we are prety much done for testing and i'll give permission for us to make it an open alpha/beta

also x give destraex a link cos he has been around long enough and i think he deserves it
wait just give us a list of who is in so i know

we will put up a thread as soon as the ships are ingame and we can get some serious stuff to show off

do you have access to xthetenths skydrive? that has the download link in it (as its the host)

in other news the empire of prezo is mobolising for war against the models and reports all conversion systems a go
(translation Xthetenth check my skydrive there are two escorts with a total of about 0 errors showing on export and for your convenience they are in .mesh format)

i'll start on cap ships tommorow if i'm not doing my english assesment

Mine didn't have revision 4 attached either D:

Greetings!

I love what I see with this mod.

Just an FYI, you may want to check this out, as it will effect your mod as well:

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/320215
WWW Link

DANMAN

CRAP!!!!!!! I don't know why, because I probably won't need that many strings, but yeah, crap, and I probably will run into that limit soonish. Also, this'll cut down on our emitter counts.

EDIT: I just made a tweak. Now the capital ship crew researches also determine the maximum trainable level. This ties in all the investment in capital ships, and will let you train to higher levels in bigger games, where you'll need the extra durability to keep the ship alive. Tell me what having all the training unlocked does for ship survivability in this mod (it's unlocked, but you could use the honor system for training. Also, I think I'll make training cheaper to match the easiness of levelling.

Prezo, just DLed the models, testing now. Also, you only get 10 emitters for each arc for each weapon. Just try to space them evenly over the WB spaces if you run out.
Part two, the models are working, but the texture is pure black with no reflection, are you using 40k Basic-da.dds or Black-da.dds?

Screenie:


EDITAGAIN: I was just playing a game for fun, and I realized that ships are still way too common, especially given how the AI concentrates its forces. I got a repulsive that I'd built up to level 7 (not as hard as before, but still takes a while) toasted pretty quickly, so I've given it the same level bonus to its shield strength as a battleship gets so when we implement unlock researches the repulsive has the ability to go out first and become as durable as the other battleships by virtue of experience. Also, what would you guys say to making gravity wells considerably larger so hit and run attacks take more time and battle becomes more likely?