I like all the changes in R4.  I saw your post on moddb about windows corrupting the mod.  That stinks, but it still ran pretty good on my end.  The only things I noticed are that it kept throwing lots of errors during loading (I have ShowErrors set to true in diplomacy.user) and the loading screen after the intros was blank. At first I thought things locked up, but I clicked the mouse and went to the main menu.

The dangerous asteroids have also grown on me, now I just think that they are quite a bit overpowered.  I would suggest keeping their ability the same, just reduce their hitpoints from 4000 to something more reasonable.  Otherwise, you (at least the AI) are stuck on your homeworld for quite a while.

Its random ... propaganda, and research centers (combat, non-combat).

Will be fine-tuning as I go along.

Or dreadnaught's ...

I noticed a couple of minor bugs (or features?) just now: 

The trade alliance shield generator ability still has "String not found" when you mouse over the building's ability icon.

The Chthonian planet is completely invulnerable to bombing (and asteroid bombardment from starbases).  I had to culture it to death in my game.  I'm not sure if planet drain works on it (haven't tested).  Since asteroid bombardment doesn't damage these planets, I'll also assume that raze planet also doesn't damage them.  Is this a bug or feature?

The Frigian planet 500% crystal extraction rate seems a little excessive.  Maybe drop it down to 200%? 

The ringworld and dyson sphere worlds have such a large population that I could see them easily unbalancing maps with random planet spawns.  But for maps that have them intentionally (and evenly) placed they could become a very important target to capture (and something worth fighting to the death over).

Is it me or does this shield mitigation seem a bit high? (any level 10 replicator capital ship during extended combat [edit: the dreadnought shield mitigation caps at 76% but all the others reach 89%]):

"Notice anything unusual about this skylark?  He took down two of my dreadnoughts without breaking a sweat lol."

Thanks, yes  digdug83 has pointed it out to me also.

Try the following ... in the file BuffEnergyWeaponBoost_Norlamins.entity (line 5), change stackingLimit from -1 to 1

The story with the replicator strike craft is what you might say is a non-linear hard to predict one. Strike craft take antimatter to create, the Replicator carrier has a very slow antimatter regeneration rate except in battle (if the are attacked) and the antimatter-converter has been researched. So the carriers might lose all their aircraft and not be able to create new ones. Hence the reason they are overpowered.

Hi CKayote,

Glad your having fun with the mod and thanks for the feedback.

My response

1. dangerous asteroids are meant to slow everyone down, especially on high value planets.

2. I'll look into it. Thanks.

3. The expansion series includes a number of things people don't like i.e dangerous asteroids, expanded pirates and Dreadnoughts. The non-expansion series is your typical 'classic' Sins.

Personally I find the pirates weak, with the proviso that I can't ignore them and if I have been targeted for a raid (early in the game) I have to divert a relatively large fleet to take them on.

4. If you place your mouse over the cybernetics factory they do produce resources. However, the cybernetics factory resources are not displayed in the planet summary or your empire summary. Can't do anything about that as it is 'hardcoded' in the game.

Will this mod (R4 version)work for Dip 1.2 ?

So does this mod also include the bailknight effects for weapons and such?

I have it working in 1.2/1.21.

Also--is that release 3 or 4 in your downloads right now?  I have 3.

Thanks for letting me know.

You can get R4 (E & D) at ModDB. Will update links here in the next day or so when I release R4 (O).

First of all, thank you for your mod!

You have done a great job. The models are designed very well.

I particularly like the Galactica very much. Great battleship! 

Only that ship is worth playing your mod!

I always do play sins with my mate in Multiplayer.

We tried your mod last week. We haven’t had any problems to play your mod with patch 1.2 (Diplomacy).

Your mod is impressive, too. But there is one thing we could not enjoy.

In our opinion there are too many planets which cause imbalances on random-maps in Multiplayer-Games.

My mate for example had a planet with 1.500 inhabitants. He could collect as much money as Bill Gates in his best time.

I haven't had great planets and I was a poor devil.

Is there are a way to play your mod with standard-planets or can I edit it by myself easily?

 I found planet-files which I can edit with notepad …

I know, most players like as many different planets as possible !