One relatively easy way to balance powerful new races with the original three would be to increase the fleet capacity required to build their ships... kinda like in Company of Heroes where if you don't have a high enough population cap you can't afford the larger manpower intensive units (akin to requiring fleet upgrades).

Although in theory effectively limiting the amount of units they can have compared to the original three races would probably be contrary to the idea that they are very powerful, resource heavy races. You could maybe make the case that they are running out of resources and therefore forced into outward expansion, but that might not be in line with the backstory.

I'm wondering, since I think it was mentioned that the Xin ships will cost a bit more/take more time, will their resource collection abilities be on par with vanilla races, or ramped up a bit?

Since resource collection is the basis of balancing, it will remain the same as with vanilla races. The feeling of power for the Xin will stem from the fact that their ships are approximately twice as powerful as their vanilla counterparts. As you mentioned, the balancing is mostly done by also increasing the needed fleet capacity for their ships - they will thus have roughly only half as many max ships as the vanilla races. Resource costs and build times will also be adjusted.

So they are not really more powerful - but they sure feel that way, especially when you need two-three battleships to bring one of theirs down.

They will have further distinctions, such as very heavy orbital defenses and the ability to construct a network of wormhole nodes which will essentially enable their smaller fleets to cover a lot more ground, as long as its Xin turf. On offense, they are going to be vulnerable to flanking, outmaneuvering, outnumbering and so on.

Movies are win!

woot!

1. Well, y'know, there's no Star Trek, Star Wars or Stargate innit, and its not made on Half-Life2 engine.   Jokes aside, probably my fault as I wasn't planning ahead and had no update handy to increase mod exposure.

2. Can't you guess? I'm a student! And a freelance web designer - the lack of steady hours, the ability to still make money and the inherent copious volume of free time associated with student life (well, at least where I live) enable me to pour extravagant amounts of work-hours into this and other projects primarily for my own creative pleasure.

I think I should enjoy it while it lasts...

3. I'm gonna stay humbly silent on this one.

4. You could try that, but then I'd have to remove your brain, place it in a liquid nutrient jar and use it for an advanced AI platform which would enable me to slowly but surely gain control over the computers all over the world; which in turn would enable me to subtly take over many car factories' automated processes and produce an army of robots with which I would conquer the world and institute a new era of prosperity for mankind...

...and with robots on my side, even ninjas wouldn't be able to stop me! Muaha! Muahaha! Muahahahahahahaaaaaa!

We demand more screenshots and/or videos!

You can't copyright "Coming Soon".  Its copyrighted to DANMAN you fool!

soon(tm) was copyrighted by verant interactive back in the early days of Everquest *grin* (soon in this case meaning when they get around to it)

Mod looks great so far from what I've seen keep up the good work look forward to the release.

That's because in 7Ds, no one beats the Atlantians for god-like epic, and in Last Stand, no one beats the Xin for god-like epic.  Saying no one gives a crap about them is like saying no one gives a crap about the expendable Carmines in Gears of War games.

Sneak peek of the Xin Outpost!

Detailed info when I finish that promised ingame movie. For now, suffice to say that the Xin Outpost is a lot smaller than a starbase, packs less of a punch and can't take as much punishment... but you can have more of them (goes with the Xin being very good on the defensive side). Notable abilities include Gravity Surge and Stable Wormhole Synchronization.

would be great if its done this summer great work man

seriously manshooter, with talent like that why aint you working for a game company already? stick this stuff onto a resume NOW and get yourself an awesome job where you can let your creativity and talent soar

oh by the way, lovely model , your attention to detail is brilliant,, you're also very consistant too which i just love, everything looks like it's had some serious attention and love from you with lots of detail and polish

i cannot wait to see what you will do for the other factions mate *runs around screaming like a little girl* eeeeeekkk

double edit: nevermind about first edit if anybody saw it