Looking good.  Keep up the work.  

Looks very cool, and I love Nexus. Can I ask when you plan to release it?

nice looking ships!

Since the AI is extremely hardcoded, the only thing you can do is just give ships antimatter regeneration.  Sorry.

I've always enjoyed the human vessels from Nexus.  Your textures are a bit dark though so the details all look washed-out, plus the team color is pretty "splashed-on" I guess.  It also looks like you've got some shadowing issues so you should check your tangents.  Granted, these are a graphical so their impact on gameplay is nil, but if it is at all possible you should try and fix them.  Aside from that, your mod looks excellent for a first-time attempt.

When is it available for download?

Been away for the last week and a bit so haven't been able to do anymore work on my mod. Thanks for the comments.

I've had some major issues with the textures. The very first version of my mod had very simple textures with no detail. Through some brilliant tutorials on this site I've managed to progress a little further, but they're still causing me a major headache!

I might be taking up SZO's generous offer of help with the textures in the next couple of weeks. SZO I'll pm you to sort out details. Full credit will be given of course.

The tactical weapon/anti-matter problem is still being worked on. Vegas_Celest, thanks for the idea. I'm considering the research option but nothing definite yet. The Battle Stations are currently included as build-able structures. They range from the large Battle Station with large fighter capacity and lots of firepower to the smaller Orbital Stations, that can only be built very close to a planet and with fewer fighters and weapons. They aren't classed as star-bases, but this might change with the Battle Station. An idea I'm working on is to have the Battle Stations as Large Naval Bases for fleet operations.

I appreciate the comments on the Human ships, but what do you think about the Swarm? I'll be posting some Swarm pics soon, at the minute they're a collection of alien insect looking ships (including the reapers from Mass Effect).

This Mod isn't dead yet, I've just struggled to put the time in due to family etc....

I've managed to put some work into it over the past month.

I decided to try and learn how to texture myself rather than rely on SZO. He did provide an excellent example of his work, which was greatly appreciated, but I couldn't bring myself myself to rely on someone else for textures. Plus, there are a lot of texture files! I couldn't put all that workload on someone else.

Some changes have taken place:

PIRATES

I've taken a lot more inspiration from the game Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. I've put a lot of work into bringing the Gorg into play. They replace the Pirates and are pretty tough. 

They have their own abilities, planets, structures, Battleships/Cruisers/Destroyers, and Space Stations.

 A Gorg BattleShip with Gorg Fighters at the Front

 The

GALAXY

The Galaxy map has been changed radically. There are now two very distinct Galaxies.

The Milky Way: Contains the Humans and the Gorg.

Andromeda Galaxy: Contains the Swarm, linked to the Milky Way by a worm hole. This means that the Swarm are encountered much later in the game. 

An effort has been made to try and make the Galaxy map as realistic as possible, with actual Star names and placement. Game play has been kept in mind, strategy and tactics are now more important than ever.

Star Systems are now unique. Stars can now be colonized (with the right research). Star systems contain interesting discoveries, including new Alien species, new planets and new Stars. 

The Milky Way Galaxy (still very much a work in progress)

NEW TEXTURES

As I previously stated a lot of work has gone into learning how to texture and updating the existing models. 

A United Earth Battleship with the International Space Station and Earth in the background.

 A United Earth Carrier, Fighters/Bombers now play a greater role in combat.

 A United Earth Support Ship, this ship adds very valuable abilities to a fleet.

 A Swarm Queen.

NEW RACE ATTRIBUTES

A considerable effort has been made to make the Humans and the Swarm very different. I've given them "Race Attributes", these are free instantly research items that define each race, such as hyperspace speed, the ability to colonize certain planets/stars.

This is also reflected in the structures and abilities available to each race. The Swarm have a focus on being a collective mind, they are slow to expand to new worlds but once a world is colonized they develop it very quickly and can move extremely fast between owned worlds.Their ships are born quickly, are cheap, but not very tough. While the Humans are slow but determined. They rely heavily on technological advances to expand. Their ships are expensive, slow to build, but heavily armoured and boast a fierce array of weaponry.

Let me know what you think?

Very impressive.

Same here hoping to hear news

Hi Mostly80,

It's great news your still working hard, it would of been a  [e digicons]:'([/e]  shame all your hard work go to waste. I'm really looking forward to playing your mod. 

If you need any play testers i'd like to volunteer myself, if not I will be eagerly awaiting your release.

Thanks for all the hard work.

B 

I'm going to release an unfinished version of this mod in the next few days. 

It's far from finished but I'm worried that it will never truly be finished in my eyes. If I don't release an alpha version I'm never going to put it out there.

The swarm textures are not finished, the research fields are far from finished and I'm sure there are plenty of gameplay issues.

I hope you enjoy the mod as much as I've enjoyed creating it!

WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!!

That is definitely true. You will never think you're done. Best to release it so that it may actual do what it is intended for and so you can get user feedback as soon as possible.

Also looking forward to checking this out.