So... couple of thoughts here. One I don't like getting up up with how the story progressed in TRS. Second, there are examples of Cylon's working with Colonials which could be expanded on as part of gameplay. For example, not all Cylon's agreed with Human extermination and even tried to protect Humans or allied up with Humans at various points.

To that end what I like about Sins is each time you start a game it represents the start of your empire which means the story could unfold differently based on different circumstances at the time or how the gamemaster sets up the teams. The issue primarly only pops up in FFA's which can be controlled with Racial Inclination towards other factions. In this regard Cylons can be configured with a heavy negative modifier towards most human races. A heavy negative could be applied to Colonial, Tech and Hypercorp. A more neutral stance towards Advent, Rogue and Vasari, and friendly stance towards other Cylons.

As the Envoy is mainly a mechanism for increasing diplomatic relationships and would only be sent once a cease fire is achieved it could be about anything. The saucer basestar from Sot13t is one possibility as it's not currently being used in the mod. If you like Stalcore's idea it could be a captured ship design from any of the model in Coxxon's fleet.

I hadn't put too much thought into yet as Diplomacy is the most rigid piece to mod limited to pretty much the envoy 3d model and it's abilities.

How about the Worldstar model from Kyogre12s mod? Could that be the diplomatic ship? Its small and would fit the profile - 

Hey, sorry I didn't get a chance to reply before. I thought it could be done by having the civilian ships have positive abilities that target capital ships (say +1 metal/s for 20s for a refinery and +50 antimatter over 10s for a refueling ship, +5% weapons damage for a munitions ship). It would force you to guard your civilian ships for them to be productive while at the same time encouraging you to bring others into battle just behind your caps as free support ships. If capturable ships were added to a special cylon militia set then any map would work... although a map with no colonisable planets (other than asteroids) around a starting star and Earth around a distant star would be interesting to have simple alternate "fleeing with a convoy" feel, without requiring scripting... although a full map with all the trimmings would be interesting too.

Still, hope you keep having interesting ideas for this and the other mod stuff and hope to give them all a play when I have a chance to do so.

Also... I would like cylon diplomatic ships to be able to hold their own in battle... having a nice peaceful set of capital ship strength basestars orbiting around my planets would make me think twice about both declaring a ceasefire and declaring war with a cylon AI. (although the AI does like to send lots of envoys and I don't know how it deals with expensive or combat capable diplomats) Also, old style basestars would be nice... sending old models to areas away from combat and the new models to the front lines makes sense to me.

Quick update

I'm using the Chimaeia (formally frigate factory) with a new texture as the Cylon Envoy.

I'm using another model (Medusa) from ravenstarstudios as the cylon refinery.

We're already using the Hydra as the military research lab.

I'm trying to get another warstar variation from Koobalt textured for the Hangar bay just having issues finding time to texture. 

Still have more stuff to wire up like the resurrection hub, but it's getting closer.

I might give the envoy weapons... Mainly working on getting the models in the game with proper icons and buttons.

I'm not too concerned about Rebellion to be honest right now. Hard to say how long it will take to merge into Rebellion until it actually comes out. I'll probably do another beta version of R6 this week with more Cylon improvements as well as some other bug fixes I've found like the Cylon's weapon points weren't all oriented correctly causing the ship to stop shooting in some circumstances.

Hey Z... wondering if you could help me with something? Do you remember how I asked a few weeks back about some advice on how to design an asteroid that looks like an old school basestar has crashed in to it? 

Well a buddy of mine helped to make it, but it doesn't seem to be working? My buddy is out of action for a while and doesn't have the time to look at it... If I shoot it through to you, could you have a quick look and tell me why the mesh isn't working? 

Hi, if you like i can make some Boomer alike texture for this model, just post for me the .obj file you use (i have so many VIP version that i have no idea witch one you use 'lol')

Sure. load it up to a file sharing service and PM the link or post it here.

No. You'll still need to load the flagship core.

Hehe, understand that. Hope things are going well.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5790092/sotf/bloodandchrome/Warstar_tesealte.obj

Need more voices

I actually had room to integrate these as I forgot I had set aside some of the count for the Cylons. Only problem now is I've overused these sounds making it really monotonous overtime  

When you have them all dowloaded make sure you DELETE your previous R6 folders before you unzip these 

Fixing... selected the wrong folder when I built the zip.

Edit - links are fixed.

Thanks so much Z, much appreciated. 

I know that the .bmp needs to be converted to .dds, but I tried to convert it and it still didn't work, so I thought I'd give you the original files that my mate gave to me. 

Have uploaded it to http://www.gamefront.com/files/21336954/crashedmesh.zip

ok some test of cylon:

1. you switch the icon for Guardian Mk1 and Mk2 or models (depend what you want to have as mk1/mk2) 

2. how can i build Boomer class or Colony i didn't find any ship to do that??

3 The Cylon starbase WOW it looks better than i remember 

4. yes the sound of hybrid... especially the "jump"... well i don't know what to say 

5. Is there a chance, or some tutorial how to do the race icon (you now the icon that float above your ship and planet) i wonder  can i make or you make   icons as number: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 ??

If any of this question was reply sorry but i'm to lazy to read all post since i was last here