Anyone beta testing this?

I'd really like to get some feed back

Ok, just got to testing it a little bit on a small map.  So far no bugs.

Two small things I was wondering about, the looters need to be micromanaged (not too big of a deal) the just sit at the edge of the gravity well when they jump in while the rest of the ships go off to fight.

The other thing involves buying bounty, the pirates could get to buy it at a huge discount and huge rewards perhaps.

Just some quick suggestions.

I have it...but my sins in running on on the wrong version for mods to work and i cant downgrade it -.-

Yah I got around the micro by using fleets. :3

Yea....I meant to use regular carriors.....becouse of that (the textures are from 1.05, which doesn't work with 1.1), but I forgot to implement the carriors before I put the beta out.

What do you thingk of the game play?

The way they get resources, types of ships, capitol ship abilities, and the Pirate Juggernaut?

Great.

Awsome, that is what I was going for.

Thanks

you have it installed correctly?

You have the mod activated? (new music should be playing)

If so, then it should be the LAST race (after Vassari).

If you are doing it correctly, then I do now know what is going on.

Maby the mod downloaded wrong (I have had that happen)

I hope that helps, and I can't wait to see what you have to say.

wierd, when you activited the mod, did new music play?

remember, it takes a few secondes for the mod to activate.

do you have vista? Maby that is the problem...

Are you using sins developer? If not, you should try that.

(In the mod packet)

Ok, just saw the juggernaut, that was a surprise.

I liked it. I used the juggernaut and a few ships to defend an asteroid leading to my home planet, it worked really well.

I tried a different game on a custom map I made specifically to give the pirates an economic boost so I could get access to everything.  I think the L.R. Transaction Device might be a bit overpowered but creating 2 capitals.  I totaly destroyed the ai's home planets with it while they were defending elsewhere.

(I also found a way to colonize planets by capturing colonizing capitals.)

Awsome mod, much better than my weak attempt at making the pirates a playable race.

Although there are some things that I think you really do need to improve:

1. Um, ain't the pirate juggernaught to big?

2. scuttling the pirate juggernaught gives you back more resources than calling it in does.

3. the normal transaction device fleet call seems abit too weak, especially when compared to the L.R. transaction device.

4. the missile carrier has no texture, well, it's completely covered in team colour.

5. grammar errors, not important but still, I get bothered by them.  

6. Why not use the "Pirate Defense Platform" model instead of the "TEC Gauss Platform" or whatever it's called?

Anyway that's all the things I think you should improve.

Oh and another thing, I was abit surprised at the voiceover for the pirate juggernaught, ehem, it's kinda funny.

Now now...my turn to add my piece of advice (constructive of course...as I love helping and expect people to do the same for me).

1) Ships not powerful enough.

This is my first point as I have noticed that well we are sort of limited on the ships that we can buy throughout the game. (research in fleet supply being our only "upgrade source"). At the start with their elevated cost and the relative lack of ressources, its actually extremely slow to build any decent sized fleet, let alone permanently maintain it!

Its real nice having a 15 autocannon vessel to start..but vs barely 4-5 ship planets..hes out in no time! And with his high cost..thats something that hurts big time!

1.1) Speaking of research, you should have ONE RESEARCH TAB! Plundering...in which you would have handfulls of researches designed to upgrade the plunder ability into something truly marvelous and utterly powerful! Cus lets face it...relying on plunderers which get killed in 10 secs as a source of income will not cut it to sustain the fleet in prolonged battles!

As such, I propose you give the plunder ability a BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG..did I foget to mention BIG boost! Cus only 30 ressources per ship is far from enough! At start yes..but not in the long run!

1.2) Which leads me to another idea! Like you say..Pirates = Plunder! Which means either EVERY SHIP NEEDS PLUNDERING ABILITIES! Calibrate for each (ie. 10 ressources if missilor is in range, 20 if executor is in range...200!!! if PLUNDERER is in range (then it would be worth it to make that ship)) OR make a FREE EXTREME PLUNDERER! which would be the money maker of the fleet and would "create money"during and IN-BETWEEN BATTLES!!!

'cus lets face it..this is no Parako Probe, you dont cloak and "suck" a percentage of income from planets...You need vessels and battles to survive so if once the map is cleared and your ennemy is just turtling in his corner building a massive fleet!

You arent getting ANY cash! plus since you cant colonise...hell take ALL planets except for yours and then...well I'll let you guess what happens!

2) No Planetretakingstopper vessel (yeah people its well written  )

This leads me to my next major point, the No Planetretakingstopper vessel !!! now this is A NECESSITY FOR YOU (and me for that matter)!!!! What I mean is you cloear planets and then cannot colonise. As such, opponent can just barely send a colony vessel after you and basta...all youre hard work just gave him a free planet! That x30 planets in a normal game...and you spared him a LOT of wasted credits and a clear shot at upgrades!

Therefore, you need to build a "Turtle Ship" (I say you do..but its of course..only an idea), which would settle in a neutral grav well and prevent any attempt to colonise UNLESS it is destroyed (sort of like my Homeworld but a mobile version of it)! That way you protect your back as you plunge into ennemy territory!

3) Too slow of a start!

The start is deadly slow! Sorry to say but with starter cash, I managed to upgrade my planet once and buy 3 of the 15 autocannon ships (basic attack craft I gather) and well...didnt go far with that . So I would propose either reducing ships cost or allowing the pirate player a large bonus starter lot of cash in order to expand rather quickly at start! As of the moment, the Pirates are extremely vulnerable to rushes.

Hope Im not killing you under all that! But since you helped me..I wanted to be as precise as possible to show my gratitude !

If you have any issues...Im just a PM away

Take care!

Justin S.