Hey Z.... I'll help out.

Can I have SVN access?

Trust me, the last Diplomacy release of B&C is even better than 13th Tribe.

Also, Z, don't know how much help i'll be, but i'll take some SVN access for the two (ish... sigh) months i'm still here if you'd like. I remember using it before for SoGE, but that was so long ago i forget how to use the darn thing.

I am away from a real computer until Sunday night... I'll shoot details out then hopefully. And I'm at the point for colonials where I need specific feedback to finish them up. So even if you can only throw out a couple ideas or say something just doesn't feel right that will help. I have some specific areas I'm curious what you think. I will write some of those up next week. I can still shuffle techs around some if needed for balance or modify some research modifiers around to at this stage. I also need some ideas for loyalist vs rebel techs outside of Corvette and titans. This could come from classifying existing techs or adding a few new ones. Don't worry too much about the extra declare faction stuff right now. It's more play fluff atm.

Here's some specific items I'd like feedback on (Colonials only)...

Economic pacing for early game Colonials (i.e. focusing on non-combat labs/research versus combat)

• I've done well with a focus on cheap mines then building a refinery network
• Trade at tier 3 puts more emphasis on mines, refinery and early tax upgrades
• Population growth upgrades at low tiers keep the cost low but really aren't great until you have a high pop planet to colonize.

Combat pacing for early game Colonials (i.e. focusing on combat labs/research versus non-combat)

• Ships are expensive but durable. Hard to deal with vanilla factions that can outspam you. Armor/Hull Research might not be currently enough to offset overall lower mitigation.

 

Research Feedback?

Research String Descriptions?

 

Ability suggestions - Open to suggestions that fit with the current ability names and icons. I don't want to create new assets but tweaking the underlying code is acceptable.

• Titans abilities are vanilla templates right now and need some oomph.
• Capital ability balance/tweaks

Balance:

Personally I feel early game battlestars are too strong especially when evidenced against this comparison spreadsheet.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5790092/sotf/bloodandchrome/capital_stats.xlsx

Frigates are actually fairly close per supply. Basically while less in numbers they stack up fairly well to other factions. The delimiting factor right now is mitigation which may need some more tweaking to balance things out.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/5790092/sotf/bloodandchrome/frigate_stats.xlsx

 

 

Good point, thanks for bringing that up.

I'll download turtoise svn and see about making a base build you can download.

 

SVN Update:

• Added: SotF Planets SinsPlus Reb.QA
• Added: SotF Militia Colonial Reb.QA
• Added: SotF Militia Cylon Reb.QA
• Added: Generic flak burst to columbia battlestar
• Fixes: a few various checked in

 

 

 

I haven't officially released anything for 1.041, but your welcome to try that download.

 

 

something like the LCARS menu from sacrifice of angels 2 would be cool..... what battlestar is that pic off?

Oh ya the Cetus. I don't like it so that's probably why I didn't recognize it.

Works fine on my end... no mini-dumps or crashes.

Sorry prob should have mentioned, I'm using the diplomacy version

Thanks! Will get that now. Other question, if I use the mesh resize tool on any mesh I get a minidump - is there any way around this? Need a bigger BSG

what dumps? the resize tool? the game? 

And a word of warning bigger meshes behave poorly in sins making the bumper care affect even worse.