Should the Romulans have something similar though? First time they made an appearance in TNG was after Fed & Romulan outposts had been obliterated by a Borg scouting party, so I'd imagine the Rommies would have devised some suitably devious counter.

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    Value "The Devastator Class is more than capable of a standoff with any Alpha or Beta Quadrant starship. ROLETYPE: Elite  Siege"

Everything inside the quotes of the value line (yellow) can be changed and it only for the player to read.

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    ID "IDS_CAPITALSHIP_DOMPLANETSIEGE_DESCRIPTION"
    Value "Der Devastator Klasse ist mehr als fähig, eine Konfrontation mit einem Alpha-oder Beta Quadrant sterne-schiff. Rolle Typ: Elite Belagerung"

You may want to take a look at what I have been cooking up.  I've taken this mod and re-worked it so that the ships are more valuable to the player and more expensive.  this makes each ship more powerful in its own right, and leads to longer lasting ships with much more impactful deaths.  

I think that the main changes to the mod are finished for my long form version, but I would like to have a map that suites  my version of play as well, so I am working on that and should have it finished soon.

Essentially i've made each structure and ship more expensive and time consuming to build, and tweaked the AI to treat their creations with their new value and challenge to create in mind.

The new SOA2 mod is very rich with content, and to utilize it fully in the long form, i think that a proper map that includes all of the new content is necessary.  I'll post a link to my re-worked content as soon as I have a balanced map that pays attention to the canon era of this mod's star trek interpretation.

You must have missed my previous post on 4/24 about the changes I have been working on where i said:

"I won't release my modifications without permission from the official team, and if you guys would like to have a look at my 'long-form' mod I can give you a link to download it." --MyFist was interested in seeing what I came up with and offered to put a link on the page to download my changes if there was an interest them.

I was referring to the new content in the rebellion version of the mod you guys made as the "new soa2 mod".

In any case, I definitely do not want to take any credit away from you guys.  You have all done an incredible job, and i love SOA2.

And you are correct, I changed a bunch of settings in SOA2 to make a longer form style of game, so the ships and buildings take longer to build and cost more along with some other settings so the computers take into account how much more valuable their ships are.

Since there is so much new content that you guys added to the new rebellion version of the mod, I'm also making a map that is up to date with those new things that you added, planets and what not.

You need to think ahead. If you use mods with Sins YOU need to make a copy of the Sins Rebellion folder. From that copy you can run the executable as long as Steam is running. Don't rely on the Steam update option as sometimes it forces an update on you.

This is what i get for missing staff meetings

There is an option in the game properties to not update the game every time you fire up steam. However to be safe you should keep a backup of previous versions just for situations like this. I lost count of how many backups of original sins i had back in the day when IC was updating every other week, and breaking the mod each and every time..

Question about hangar defense.

I noticed that the Federation still has 3 squadrons for 6 tactical slots but some of the other races have only 2 squadrons per 6 tactical slots. Noticed this is different from previous versions when all races had 2 tactical slots per squadron. With the reduction in tactical slots for many planet types just curious how this rebalances things.

Nope. This is why you should make a backup of games before major patch updates.

With regard to the progress of the next build, is it okay to ask how long it might be until the release? I'm not asking for an exact date. Just an estimate, e.g. is it days, weeks or months away?

I'll have to go back and look as part of the balancing effort but I'm pretty sure we are scarce in the anti-structure role... Many thanks for the AI instruction. SotYR will benefit from your insightful work.

I am ready with my changes. It takes alot of time.

If someone would like to try it then write me pls. I can send the files with email.

Just an FYI, I moved all the files in to the new Rebellion 1.5 mod folder and reactivated the mod with the new patch and it seemed to work fine.  The only odd thing I noticed was some of the planet textures were slightly off but overall it worked fine as far as I could tell.  That is encouraging .....

It is faction specific. If you use the Vasari faction as your base for your new faction. Then yes they don;t have an anti structure unit. However, they do have a mine layer unit which must be counted in the StatCountType. The modded unit that replaces the mine layer doesn't have to be a Mine Layer roletype, but it must have the StatCountType. So that the AI doesnt spazz out. You have to duplicate the StatCountTypes for each specific faction almost to the letter. The only StatCountType that rebellion doesn't seem to have a problem with not being there are Titans. Otherwise we would have major issues with SoA2