Vorlon Fighter had this too, corrected

That's bad, but I'm not sure I would want to care for it (for now). Much of the basic framework of Babylon 5 was Diplomacy so for now that means better play without locked teams. Frankly, this is a bug which can only be resolved by IC/SD, so please feel free to use their bugtracker to ask them to correct this (though to be honest, I very much doubt they care enough for us modders to do anything about this).

Yes and no. I do think it is better to have it off, as most players expect their scouts to do just that. It doesn't prevent a player from creating a fleet of scouts, it just helps free most players from watching over their scouts all the time.

I'v been checking in from time to time the last years or so just to get my hands on the latest version and I'v begun playing with the current version out and think that the work put into the mod is really something. I was wondering if it would be possible to get ahold of the .txt version of the GalaxyInfo-files? I know how to convert the .entity files but no matter how I try it, with any of the released programs, utilitys or via the command promt/ and the convert programs included in the game I'm at a loss as to get it working. When I convert the files I still get the /bin- stuff that show that the files are still unreadable for any of my txt- reading programs (notepad, notepad++ and a few other.) even if the files show up as a .txt file after converting.

I know its a lot to ask for since Im not on the mod-team, but the only thing I can do with my limited modding skills is editing the .txt files, changing stats and tweaking the mod in these ways. (Also Im a sucker for huge battles so increasing the cap-points about tenfold is one of my favorite things to mod with any strategy game.)

Is there any way if I ask nicely that you could help me out? Please?

Great work on the mod btw. If I might ad a suggestion it would be to increase the variant of planets, maybe you could ask the talented guys that make the Maelstrom mod if you could just borrow a few of their planet-models/files to save some time.

Yeah, I know.  I just figured you could tell Ironclad or Stardock about it to see if they would fix it.

TobiWahn,

Now that 0.43 is out and you've already released a hot patch, what is next? I'd love to finish the ship ability files but that is a 0.45 effort with some exceptions. I'll dig into ZombieRus5's mod tool to get smart on Rebellion deltas in a week or so but where should the effort be? I suspect your DB will make short work of updating the entity files to cover any changes. I'd still love to have a lot of the completed content added but understand your concern about not overly complicating the overhaul to Rebellion.

I'll also spend some time looking at the faction tech trees and propose modifications for Rebellion. Hopefully HotRod is still around and can do the DB work once the path proposals are worked through. To ease things I think I'll draw and scan to .pdf and upload the flow so the graphical component is clear. It is way too challenging to try and talk through it.

hehe, and I wanted you to do that , after all I never play with locked teams.

It has been a while since I played SotYR and that was on your previous release, and I have to say I like your mod, especially since all the races play very uniquely.  I'm quite fond of the EA and their beam spam, especially since unlike the Minbari or Centauri they're much easier to start off with thanks to the Explorer being extremely tough and able to colonize and the relatively quick access to the cheap and agile Hyperions to act as escorts and attack dogs for it.  The Nova is a bit lackluster in my opinion because of how slow it is, but there's no avoiding that.

It should be noted that I'm using a modified Gameplay.constants for greatly accelerated build speeds simply because otherwise construction takes too long, especially considering things blow up very fast.  I know you want "realistic" build times for warships but in my opinion that just makes building a fleet as much fun as watching paint dry.  One thing you should consider is that in the movie where Londo talks about the Earth-Minbari War he says that it took years for the Minbari to fight their way to Earth and considering the massive technological gap between the Minbari and the Earth Alliance at the time I don't see how the EA could have dragged the war on that long without being able to build warships at an extremely rapid rate.  Londo also noted that the humans took such massive casualties the entire time any other race would have given up, and that's consistent with a rapid rate of force replenishment.

EDIT: One thing I forgot to mention after all this is Rebellion allowing five weapon banks per unit instead of three.  Does this mean there's any chance we'll see expanded weapon lists on some warships?

Thanks for release 0.43! Great mod!

I must second, in multiplayer the game is very slow paced. On single player when testing I never play on less than x2 speed, unless I'm zoomed in close to check on visuals for things I'm testing.

I think it's not just build rates that slow the game down, but also the time it takes to research those key techs that describe your faction's history through the B5 story line. While researching those I'll frequently speed the game up, unless involved in combat of course!

Ship build rates are only one symptom. If resource accumulation is equal to ship building speed there is no issue but resource collection is generally even longer than the time to build ships. I frequently have two ship building structures around a major world to speed up ship production so ship building speed isn't the real issue though some tweaking is needed. What we need is a good measure of resource accumulation averages and use that as a basis to tweak ship costs which would determine the empire wide ship building rate. Individual ship building speed can then be properly adjusted once its impact on the ship building rate can be estimated.

Research speed is it's own issue and we can discuss as the new Rebellion factions are mapped out and discussed. Regardless any faction pre-tech adjusted research time should be the same as any other faction. I'm not sure we have done that yet but that is part of proper balancing. With research techs some factions will finish faster but since resource allocation is an important consideration that is more a strategic decision unless it is part of a locked path for better ships. Thoughts?

Capital ships acting as labs and credit generators can spiral out of hand very quickly since all a player needs to do to make money and climb the technology tree is expand his fleet, and fleet expansion should only be making you money if you use your fleet to go conquering.

The upgrade to Rebellion will be quite a bit of work. The Shadow in particular will require a major revamp, ideally they will have just the one starting planet and so would need resources from treaties and other means to compete. Each race will play differently. We know what the mod needs it is a matter of effort and phasing and finding work arounds for limits on the engine. 0.44 the upgrade to Rebellion will be another big content release and will help to diferentiate the play style of the races.

No, 0.44 will not contain much additional content. it is to be the basis for all future development of the mod and solely for compatibility.

Will look at that and then make an update to the repository (should be the most recent files up there though)