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Research - both the category pictures and buttons. Almost any picture can be scaled down to a button size. So things for Hull, Armor, Weapons, etc.

I have all the ship buttons taken care of as those are generated from renders of the model.

Always the latest.

Thanks man. 

Nope.

I'll have to look at uploading it elsewhere as filefactory is a bust right now.

Mucho Gracia.

Whilst hunting around for the R5.4 I gave your R6.2 a little play through.  I ran into a significant point of frustration though.  I thought I went and filled in the Descriptions of the ships from "Todo" to something with flavor text.  Turns out I didn't.  It still says "Todo".  where are the Strings I need to fix?

     The Below is purely questions for personal use and should by NO MEANS be taken as a suggestion.  I'm just a BSG imagery junkie.

As I'm playing this mod only because its both so damn well done and I'm a complete BSG(RMS) Junkie, I'd really like to get rid of stock pirates and get something a little more chromy.  Gimme a place to start and I'll do the rest myself.  How to I edit what will be the "Grey NPC Pirates"?  

If the above is possible, did the old "Sins of the 13th Tribe" MKII Basestar ever get finished?  If yes, I'll go looking for it, otherwise I think I can get Kyogre's done on my own.  I think I have a grasp of what it would take to create a special set of Pirates for personal offline use.  It would be boss to replace the stock soase pirates with a few old Basestars with old Raiders as the "stock" pirate ships.

Final Question, as I've never tried it and I'm sure you'd be able to "yes/no" the possibility, can Strike Craft (or simply the models) be used as the basis for a unit, and said unit be independently jumpable?  I ask purely because when I'm bored on my days off and feeling a solo game I canget as much of the Galactica Feel as possible, by having the much maligned toasters be able to send "Vulture Squadrons" as frigate.

(Side Note):  For the record, I haven't read any of the fanfic (and TBH don't intend to), but I do like the models.

If you want to send me some strings anytime that would be cool. I accept string entries all the time for my different races.

Also, a pirate addon sounds like a cool idea. We were also talking about an old school style militia as an option too. I'll look over the Pirate code some and give you some pointers to work on. If you get it finished I'd like to include it with the mod.

I think I have his Hades MkII mesh included in the mod now too. I do have all the other assets cleaned up some, I'll have to look them over again and let you know.

On strikecraft, it is possible to have frigates use small strikecraft meshes with fighter movement. They would be built from frigate factories and would dock with anything though. Basically, like the Rebellion Corvettes.

I guess my question is more what string/other doc am I looking for edit that?  I tried a File called "PlayerPirate" but nothing stuck, came out with game defaults.  Most of what I've figured out has been "reverse" engineering what I've looked at so far or was in that short "Modding Basics" doc from Ironclad.

Do i need to create a new folder for a race "Pirates" in order to get it to work?

I guess I'll elaborate:  What I'd like to do is have a "squadron of raiders" capable of jumping.  My initial thought is to create a frigate that uses the Cylon Heavy Raider mesh, make said follow all the rules of a standard frigate, and give said heavy raider the ability to produce a squadron of vultures.  If, as you daid the squadron is produced in a frigate factory, A.) will the factory produce a full squadron? and B.) Dock anywhere?!  Elaborate please. 

Also, I'll send yah anything I do, but please keep in mind I'm modding your mod on my end to be more cinematically in tune with the show: i.e Squadrons the right size and number,  Cylons with more base stars, and swarming with vultures, getting fighters to turn on a dime and have vipers and raiders be more effective vs Capships, Adjusting ship abilities to be more like the show...  stuff like that.  Small but "vs. SOASE" unbalancing and internet lag intensive.  Totally not meant to be played against human opposition.

That being said, one of my projects right now is making a particle effect of three Heavy Raiders rather than the ball that is Ion Blast.  I shall call it "Steve".  Or "Centurion Assault".  Largely the same effect, but more "Showish" visual.

And speaking of said project, is there a special trick to getting particle forge to actually launch and not just "Stop Responding" upon attempt to launch.

OK, update, I tried running a "Cylons as Pirates" manifest...  Result was a mini dump.

Tomorrow I'll try an edit that is less "Cut and paste" and "set to 0".  Tips would be helpful

Modding pirates is an odd combination of files that need to be touched. 

I currently plan to mod the pirates to use the Rogue fleet and it's Titan as a hard pirate addon. 

If you can't figure it out by then you could probably piggy back off my changes.

If the heavy raider has the squads then you would build the heavy raider. The vultures would dock with the heavy raider when you phase jump.

Well good point... I'll also warn you that your are modding off a moving target. 

Might be some cool stuffs here, I'm still interested in you sharing stuffs I might include in the mod.

No idea... there's a thread somewhere about particle forge. I'd post in it and see if you get any help from other modders.

You would be my hero.

Okay, to those strings, I have hunted and hunted for "Colonial_English" and for the life of me I can not figure out where there's an older string at.  Still stuck with "stock" descriptions and stock names.  I fore one like having more Greek in my name generator.

I really like the idea of using Koobalt's Jupiter as the Titan.. 

Rough Colonial Research Tree Items (Feel free to make suggestions).

Fleet Shipyards (Combat)

Fleet Designs

Defender Gunstar Ability?
Alberio Gunstar Unlock -> HEIAP Rounds
Vigilant Skirmishstar Unlock -> Heavy Fallout -> High Yield Warheads
Berzerk Escortstar Unlock
Sentinal Gunstar Unlock
Moebius Flattop Unlock -> Demolition Teams
Tiger Gunstar Unlock -> Designate Target
Asgard Battlestar Unlock -> HEIAP Rounds, HEIAP Warheads

Weapons

Auto-cannon -> HE Rounds, HESC Rounds, HEIAP Rounds
Missile -> HE Warheads, CR Warheads, EFP Warheads, Nuclear Warheads
KEW -> HE Rounds, HESC Rounds HEIAP Rounds 

Reinforcement

Antimatter -> Nuclear Reactor, Improved Nuclear Reactor
Armor -> Basic Ribbed Armor, Improved Smooth Armor, Basic Radiation Shielding, Improved Radiation Shielding
Shield Mitigation -> Point Defense 3x

Angular Thurst -> Sublight Maneuvering
Hyperspace Charge -> FTL Calculations

CIC (Defense)

Most the technology works here except for the shield generator. I was thinking about having a special structure CIC that would boost player and friendly damage.

Need to remove/change some of the upgrades for the KEW defense turret too.

Other Ideas?

Colonies (Non Combat)

Trade Unions (Economy/Trade/Refineries)

Refinery -> Upgrades?

Trader Port -> Upgrades?, thinking something that increases population growth with trade ports present

Metal & Crystal Upgrades

Other Ideas?

Religion (Culture)

Culture Center -> Allegiance Boosts ( would like to integrate some of the god names into techs )

Other Ideas? Increase trade if culture center present?

Colonization (Planet/Population)

Ice/Volcanic/Gas unlocks -> Population increase

Terran/Desert population increase

Other Ideas?

Quorum of Twelve (Diplomacy)

Will mainly be standard diplomacy stuff to not break diplomacy (need ideas for names/descriptions though).

Ideas for Envoy?

Colonial Fleet (Logistics)

Need good names/descriptions for research.

Designing research trees is hard if you haven't figured that out yet. I've done 4 unique research trees so far and each one gets a bit harder to do.

Looks good. as far the Colonial fleet ( Logistics ) maybe making one Picon HQ would work also.In Diplomacy The Articles of Colonization leads to the Quorum of Twelve might work?

Z... did you get a chance to have a look at the new sounds that I recorded for colonial and cylon? 

And how hard will it be to get your mod to work with Rebellion? ie. converting it over? 

To lazy to read it all; but my suggestion:

Weapon: 

Advance targeting system (for fighter) - the higher the research is the better targeting system fighter has, the better chance to hit enemy fighter (deal additional damage)

@All - The comments look good. only one that is not possible is increased allegiance via an envoy from what I can tell.

Yes, just haven't had a chance to integrate them yet.

No one has any real idea as the modding tools for Rebellion haven't been released yet. I'm assuming a fair amount of work will be needed to convert to Rebellion just to support 4th level abilities and rebel/loyalist faction code.