You can now use an ability/buff combo to cause a planet to be stripped to the core (destroyed).

Whoa! Fantastic! 

This is a huge thing for me as well! Really looking forward to 1.83 or whatever version number it is.

I don't know how much we can get away with asking here, but if we are going to make this a modding wishlist, I have some suggestions below. Though they aren't as important as what has already been discussed.

If that's off the table, perhaps you could do some research for us on what you can do with the Galaxy Forge 4 triggers? To be honest, we don't know as much as we should about the capabilities of the new galaxy forge. We only recently figured out how to add resource asteroids to a planet beyond what is defined in the entity file for example.

I've heard some mod teams have been experimenting with things like getting win/lose map conditions to work, since a few actions seems to be available in the "Trigger Properties" drop down. However, I'm sure we'd all like to know more about what actions and conditions are available, if they are operable at all. And perhaps more importantly, what the syntax for the .galaxy file is, since I wouldn't be surprised if the engine supports more features than what the Galaxy Forge shows. I realize Stardock might have done most of the work on this, but I don't think they know either.

Modding Wishlist

• A HasBuff target filter. We were excited when we got a "HasBuff" aiUseTargetCondition; however, I believe it is still possible for players to manually cast an ability on a target without the buff. So it is still not really feasible to make an ability which can only be used if the target has Buff X, which would be incredible useful. Further, a target filter would give us this sort of flexibility in buffs as well as abilities.
• An entity modifier for strikecraft construction time. Or simply update the ShipBuildTime modifier to affect fighter build times on non-planet entities. It would be nice to have something other than giving instant fighter build time or disabling fighter launch.  
• A "Grant Experience" instant action.
• Let us define the fleet supply and capital crew requirements in useCostType "ResourcesAndMustHaveCapitalCrew". This ability useCostType is currently hard coded to require 50 fleet supply and 1 command point. This is obviously fine for spawning vanilla capitalships, however, some of us modders have capitalships that use different amounts of fleet supply. In addition, some of us actually use abilities to spawn titans (which need two command points), so being able to specify the required amount of capital crew points required would be a nice extra. 

Looking forward to seeing more of Ironclad around again, whatever your future plans are. 

Oh and yes, the triggers were coded by Stardock. I was involved in almost everything else done for Rebellion (mostly design but some coding as well) so it is relatively easier for me to adjust or make changes for everything but triggers. They will take more time as I will have to educate myself on how they work (from a code perspective).

Ok, I did some quick research on triggers. Check out https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/473060/page/1/

I just added a new buffInstanceActionType "GiveExperience". Example of use shown below:

buffInstantActionType "GiveExperience"
instantActionTriggerType "AlwaysPerform"
experienceToGive 3000

Hello there from Sins of the Prophets! My apologize if this is outside the scope of the current batch of changes, but the AI stops building ships while she is building a titan. This is a pretty major issue for us, since ships die quite fast in the Halo universe. The AI will often run out of steam. It would seem to be a bug, since that seems like very odd intended behavior.

I'd guess hiding it from the Empire tree/icons would be pretty difficult, but yeah, the ability to hide a ship to everyone except the owner would be nice. The current "IsInvisible" modifier used by the Eradica Titan makes the ship mesh invisible to all players, which is not ideal for cloaking.

Ok, you can now choose from up to 9 titans.

Does this happen in an unmodded game? If it does, send a save game of it happening to bfraser@ironcladgames.com

Awesome. 

I assume the negative bonus would not show up for the same reason the positive bonus also did not show up. But here's the buff. It will be applied to an enemy planet.

TXT
entityType "Buff"
onReapplyDuplicateType "PrioritizeOldBuffs"
buffStackingLimitType "ForAllPlayers"
stackingLimit 1
allowFirstSpawnerToStack FALSE
buffExclusivityForAIType "NotExclusive"
isInterruptable FALSE
isChannelling FALSE
numInstantActions 0
numPeriodicActions 0
numOverTimeActions 0
numEntityModifiers 1
entityModifier
buffEntityModifierType "PlanetBombingDamageAbsorption"
value
Level:0 -0.150000
Level:1 -0.300000
Level:2 -0.450000
Level:3 -0.600000
numEntityBoolModifiers 0
numFinishConditions 2
finishCondition
finishConditionType "FirstSpawnerNoLongerHasBuff"
buffTypeToQuery "Buff_ING_BombardmentProtocolApply"
finishCondition
finishConditionType "OwnerIsFriendlyToFirstSpawner"

I believe I first tested this in Entrenchment or Diplomacy just by doing the math on the damage numbers with and without the buff, and found that it worked as you would expect. Using negative numbers increases damage on the planet, but since there was no debuff text on the planet, a player would have no idea their planet was being affected by the ability unless there was a particle, like the TEC shield generator does.

Ooooooh, this and the SttC via buff bits will be fantastic! Thank you so much!

I have one important request...

Could you please, please, please remove the hardcode limitation that prevents a starbase jumping to another grav well when there is a starbase present?

Currently, even if the grav well can support more than one starbase, if one is present you cannot jump another in. If you could make it only restricted when starbase limit is reached for the planet/grav well that would be fantastic!

I was originally planing on making all the capital ships in my mod 'starbases' so that each capital ship could be named and have unique upgrades that can be bought... but due to the hardcode getting added in one of the patches (as a failed attempt to nerf the Vasari Rebels) it kind of ruined my plans.

if i was to request something maybe a option of making weapon styled ability better by adding a option of being able to target a certain direction, example front back left or right, as it is a bit annoying to have a beam ability target and shot at something behind it when the beams are at the front of the ships. If this is possible it would be hopeful in my modding endeavours.