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Sounds similar to the standard ability on all starbases - ships that phase jump from the system take damage, so hopefully that may fairly easy to implement.

After a jumpgate has been destroyed by such an ability, prevent (with a long cooldown time) a new one being constructed due to "hyperspace instability" or something.

Could the Narn's energy mines disable/disorient ships? Maybe nearby ships also take a proportion of the effect too.

IIRC They were supposed to be an EMP weapon that fries a ship's control systems in addition to inflicting physical damage. Sadly, for the Narns, Shadow vessels appeared to be EMP hardened, so that effect should probably be reduced on their craft.

when will finish a 0.43 version?

Some observation after playing as Minbari in v0.422

1) There doesn't seem much point in researching Adrenato, it isn't a prerequisite of other techs, doesn't unlock anything nor improve anything - or have I missed something?

2) Kanet 6 turret appears to have a greater range than the Kanet 11

3) Introspection tech actually increases the cost of research instead of making it cheaper

Some more (hopefully canon) capital ship names, this time for Earth Alliance.

< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA33"
<       Value "EAS Alexander"
< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA34"
<       Value "EAS Agrippa"
< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA35"
<       Value "EAS Lexington"
< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA36"
<       Value "EAS Clarkstown"
< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA37"
<       Value "EAS Cortez"
< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA38"
<       Value "EAS Excalibur"
< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA39"
<       Value "EAS Hydra"
< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA40"
<       Value "EAS Hyperion"
< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA41"
<       Value "EAS Roanoke"
< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA42"
<       Value "EAS Nimrod"
< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA43"
<       Value "EAS Trafalgar"
< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA44"
<       Value "EAS Vesta"
< StringInfo
<       ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIPNAME_EA45"
<       Value "EAS Juno"

I've not removed any of the existing capital ship names, so now there are more names than capital ship fleet supply.

However, Sins does appear to randomly pick a suitable one - the 1st cap ship I built was called "EAS Hyperion".

Just curious, what capital ship names are there for the Shadow & Vorlon fleets?

I suppose you could always cop out for the latter :-  "We are all Kosh"

TobiWahn,

I wouldn't buff the Kanet 11 to much, a tight cluster can already eat mid sized EA, Narn and Centauri fleets. The much longer beam range in many instances more than twice the range has a huge impact.

Darvroth

Is that per culture point? Eg; a planet that produces 10 culture/sec restores 0.05 antimatter/sec.

The info card description 'Antimatter restored in culture : 0.0' doesn't sound a great incentive, which is down to rounding I guess.

NewHorizons,

I fear it is a straight rate. Antimatter is designed to be a fleet commodity recovered at developed planets and starbases. To have a passive AM regeneration rate is a significant advantage for the Minbari. We will likely need to tweak the value during balancing but honestly there is so much missing content balancing is only coarse at the moment, more bug fixing than balancing but still...

The string suggestions are most welcome. If you have the time there are a number of mismatches between ship weapons and what the string file says is there...suggested corrections would be appreciated...

I'm also busy crafting your ability suggestions... To mix metaphores...Input, need input!

Darvroth

Well, there is no internal sins weapon called Railgun. We have to improvise (I used Laser, as of now we have no correct weapon FX on any ship, except beam perhaps)

Text from the abilities need some love [e digicons]:'([/e]

Sounds very good. The base String file is for all Strings which I do not have in my Database Editor. All you have given to me so far I have added to the database directly, so the need not be added to the base. Strings overwriting the original Strings will need to be deleted from the base by myself and added to the Database.

Rebellion adds a railgun weapon, aka. RAILGUN. SpardaSon's suggestion works as well.

Just lost 2 or 3 of them when assaulting a Narn homeworld fortified with several T'Gan turrets (no starbases).

I didn't actually spot them charging off as I was micro-ing my hordes of bombers.

That turned out to be quite an expensive loss at 1700-2000 crystal each.

I think I'll turn off auto-attack and hope they still refuel & repair.

Thanks. We will look into this at one point in time.

This will probably be done using Rebellions RAILGUN. Easier and more consistent.

Haven't noticed, but have almost no time to play my own mod [e digicons]'[/e]

I think we probably should change the Hermes to somehow stay out of trouble. They should not really used for engagement, only as a last resort.

As for the progress, I've almost finished including the Buffs in my Database editor (just need to do the output, the structure is all set). After that I will add Abilities to the DB and then get on with finishing 0.43.

Could the Hermes' default engagement range be changed from Gravity well to Hold position?

It wouldn't go charging off trying to take down a starbase on its own, but it would defend itself if an enemy ship closed in on it.

That might be better than turning off auto-attack.

Some thoughts on the E.A. tech tree.

Internal Gravity sounds like it should be a pre-requisite for the Omega, perhaps swap its position with Ground Pounders or Large Missile Silo.

Police State is tier 7 and requires Restored EarthGov (??) It seems more fitting to move it down to tier 6 and require Earth Civil War - it was the instrument of Clark's regime after all

Enhanced Hypertravel info card mentions Phase stabilizer/jump, probably should be changed to Jump Gate/Hyperspace jump.

As 0.43 is going to introduce the Shadows perhaps the EA and/or Minbari ships should have a Telepathic Jamming ability, perhaps unlocked via research.

Affected vessel is disorientated/disabled, perhaps using a similar ability to the Revelation's Reverie.

However, the targeted ship should probably only "wake up" after it takes a lot of damage.

Centauri also had telepaths too, so it theory their ships could have the same ability but they tended to use mind reading for internal subterfuge and other political shenanigans - "...Kill??!! Vir, you're not important enough to kill!"

TobiWahn,

EA Hermes with the autoattack flag set to FALSE will attack designated targets and will return fire it attacked and will accompany a designated flag ship. It no longer attempts the charge of the light brigade which is good!

Also observed some interesting behavior. Two Hermes in the same fleet if kept within each others AoE will refill each others AM faster than it is used. So if the EA player is willing to invest sufficient resources for each fleet to have two Hermes the EA player is effectively decoupled from the AM refueling mechanic while on the move. The player must still contend with slower overall AM replenishment rates and any fleets that do not contain at least 2 Hermes.

Darvroth