There is a small overview and a whole list of changes in the first post

so I do not get the question.

But since I have some time actually the main things again:

- Titans needs more labs to unlock to decrease their impact on the battlefield,

  because there is more time to equip a fleet to react

- Mines and stuff belonging gets removed to increase game performance

- Advent get an ability to fight better against phase missiles which increase their

  chances in face2face situation (The old late game Vasari vs Advent problem is reduced)

- the never built and nearly useless Revelation gets more important

- the Skarovas is used to give Vasari a better performance in "long" range battles

- DLC worlds "Barren and Ferrus" are more in line with the old worlds

Who could use it?

- Players that hate mines (for whatever reason)

- Players that like the original sins and only want some small fixes or battle-performance corrections

- Multiplayers who play only with friends and avoid the ICO-Rush-Parties (there the ideas came from)

Who should never ever touch it?

- Trolls

- People who want a new game or more then small changes in balance

I do not need this or don't get what it does again

Two ways left, you speak german and ask me (PN/Steam), maybe I could it explain there easier

or you leave it alone. There is no chance for me to explain it better in english, sorry.

############Changes form 12.06.2013##########################

- Planets
    - Pirate Base
        - Mines removed
        - TEC Shieldgenerator added to reduce Novalith damage


- Advent General
    - Deliverance Engine
        - Far Sight added

    - Far Sight
        - 90sek Duration and 120sek Cooldown


- Vasari Loyalists
    - Titan
        - The Maw Ability
            - no longer affects Corvettes


- Vasari Rebels
    -Titan
        - Nano Leech
            - no longer affects Corvettes

PS: Thanks to the guy that explained me the new role of Corvettes

with 1.5 in Steam last night. Even Vasari should be in line with the plans again

##########################################################

Thats fine, then we do not talk about technical details

or detail problems with the mod. At least I know now that people

understand what it does *g*

Go to bed, because for now I do not get what exactly is the point behind this question, sorry.

############Changes form 07.07.2013##########################

- Now compatible with 1.52

- wrong placed research-artifact file removed


- Vasari
    - Bombers
        - Hitpoints reduced to 125

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Someone should have told this to my english teacher 15 years ago *g*

#############15.11.2013##########################
- Planets
    - Ferrus Worlds
    - Min. Asteroids increased from 3 to 4    

    - Pirate Base
        - Improved Shieldgenerator from 50 to 95% absorb (Anti Novalith)

    - Planet Bonus "Ancient Mine Factory"
        - inceased Number of Mines removed
        - 1 additional constructor added
        - 5 tactical slots added

- Adjusted Shield Harmonics
    - Phase Missile Block reduced by 5% to 10/15/20/25%
    - Max Shield Points replaced with Damage Sharing (2/4/7/10%)

Thanks to the guy that mentioned the problem with the pirate shieldgenerator during our game tonight.

#############15.08.2014##########################
    - Project renamed to "Mad is Bad"
        - Mad Vasari
        - Reason for the name can be found here

    - Factions renamed
        - TEC Loyalists     -> Free Trader Coalition
        - TEC Rebells       -> United Trader Regime
        - Advent Loyalists    -> Advent Union
        - Advent Rebells    -> Advent Confederation
        - Vasari Loyalists    -> Vasari Despotate
        - Vasari Rebells     -> Vasari Cooperation
        - Changes only influence selection screen
        
    - Events
        
        - NEW EVENTS (20)
            - Small Mad Vasari Fleet
                - Mad Vasari Fleet appears at star
                - between 350/480 Fleetsupply
                - No Capitalships
                - spawn Weight of 7%
                
            - Medium Mad Vasari Fleet
                - Mad Vasari Fleet appears at star
                - between 490/850 Fleetsupply
                - Capitalships added
                - spawn Weight of 3%
                
            - Heavy Mad Vasari Fleet
                - Mad Vasari Fleet appears at star
                - between 1200/1500 Fleetsupply
                - Corvette removed
                - spawn Weight of 2%
                
            - Mad Vasari Invasion Fleet
                - Mad Vasari Fleet appears at star
                - between 2500/2750 Fleetsupply
                - Heavy Ships, Mass Corvettes, Capital Ships
                - spawn Weight of 1%
                
            - High Gravity Singularity
                - Gravity Well Range For Hyperspace +8%
                - Hyperspace Charge up Rate 50% slower
                - 10min duration
                
            - Low Gravity Singularity
                - Gravity Well Range For Hyperspace -5%
                - Hyperspace Charge up Rate 25% faster
                - 10min duration
                
            - Phasespace Singularity
                - Speed in Hyperspace increased by 50%
                - 10min duration
                
            - High Recruitment Rate
                - ships are build 25% faster
                - Playerbased
                
            - Low Recruitment Rate
                - ships are build 15% slower
                - Playerbased
                
            - Construction Boom
                - Structure build time -10%
                - Upgrade Cost reduction -5%
                - Playerbased
                
            - Construction Recession
                - Structure build time +10%
                - Upgrade Cost reduction +5%
                - Playerbased
                
            - Increased xenophobic tendences
                - Enemy Culture Spread -25%
                - 2,5 Mins duration
                - Playerbased
                
            - Reactorresearch breakthrough
                - Antimatter Restore Rate 30%
                - Playerbased
                
            - Well Trained Soldiers
                - Weapon Cooldown -10%
                - Playerbased
                
            - Bad Trained Soldiers
                - Weapon Cooldown +10%
                - Playerbased
                
            - High rate of birth
                - Planet population increase 15% faster
                - All players
                
            - Low rate of birth
                - Planet population increase slowed down by 10%
                - All players
                
            - motivated cargo pilots
                - Refinery Income +50%
                - Playerbased
                
            - frustrated cargo pilots
                - Refinery Income -50%
                - Playerbased
                
            - well trained citizens
                - Planetbombing damageabsorption +10%
                - works like planetshield from TEC
                - has no text on planetinfoscreen but definitly works
                - Playerbased

        - Changed minimum allegiance threshold for random events to 20%
        
        - Ressourceboom
            - replaced with own version
            - 150% Extractionrate on all Extractors
            - influence on all players
            
        - Mad Vasari Titan
            - could be Vorastra or Kultorask
    
    - 4 new Neutral Buildings (Only Captureable)
        
        - Command Centre
            - Can always be found at Pirate Base
            - Offers "Order Blunderbuss" ability
                - Order Blunderbuss
                    - Sends a Blunderbuss Capitalship if requirements are met
                    - 15min Cooldown
                    - Needs free fleet- and capitalshipslots
                    
        - Orbital Prison
            - Can sometimes be found around Volcanic Planets
            - Increase Extractor output to 125%
            - Increase planetary ship build speed by 10%
            - 10% lower planetary population growth
                    
        - Immobilized Jarrasul
            - Can be found at broken asteroids
            - Collects ressources from planet
            
        - Forgotten Laboratory
            - Can always be found at broken moons
            - Counts as Combatlaboratory
            - Has "Activate defense grid" ability
                - Activate defense grid
                    - Spawns 2 long range defense platforms
                    - 12min reuse
                    - plattforms are active for 7mins
                
    - Huge/Large Single-System Random Map
        - Second Pirate Base added
        - Mad Vasari Moon added
                
    - Mad Vasari
        - try to colonize planets and build a wharf there
        - summon reinforcement from colonized planets with active wharf
            - summoned ships have a Reactorleak (disabled passive regeneration and damage over time)
        - spawn through above mentioned events
        - wharfs must be destroyed to remove phase shield around planet (to bomb it)
        
        - Small start Planet in Huge/Large Single System Random Maps
            - this planet only owns light wharf (Some light ships every 3mins)
            - starts a colonize ship from time to time
                - needs Ressources to start (so you/AI have ~30min time at start)
                - 7min Cooldown (They should not overrun the universe too fast)
                
    - Pirates
        - Now use modified Marza Ships called "Blunderbuss" with own abilities
        - Blunderbuss will be used in strong or wanted raid fleets
            
            - Order Blunderbuss
                - Sends a Blunderbuss Capitalship if requirements are met
                - 15min Cooldown
                - Needs free fleet- and capitalshipslots
    
    - Vasari General
        - 2 Researchsubjects added (Combat)
            - Kanruvas Prototype
            - Targeting Computer Uplink
                
    - Vasari Rebells
        - Bidirectional Jamming moved to Fortification tree
                
    - Pirate Base
        - Repair Plattforms work again
        - Own Tradeport (Underground Market)
        - Neutral (Only captureable) Command Centre which provides "Order Blunderbuss" ability
        
    - Plasmastorm
        - Pirate Ships increased by 3
        
    - Gas Giant
        - Pirate Ships increased by 3
    
    - Neutron Star
        - 1.82 changes crash fixed
        
    - Wail of the Sacrificed
        - Now affects Ships/Starbases at the planet where activated
        - NO effect on neighbouring planets
        - Population killed on planet
        - reuse time increased to 15min
        - Damage changed to 5.42/10.75 per population point
        - AI use it if enemy fleet is superior

    - Adjusted Shield Harmonics
        - Shared Damage removed
            - replaced with Shield Mitigation 1/2/3/4%
        - Phase Missile Block reduced to 5/10/15/20%
            
    - Spirit of the Hunter
        - Range increased from 12500 to 16500
    
    - Akkan Battlecruiser
        - Armistice
            - AI only use it if ship is near death
            
    - Skarovas Enforcer
        - "Disharmonic Oscillation" Ability removed
        - Base Armor increased by 1

    - Kanruvas Oscillator added
        - nearly Unarmed
        - uses Minelayer skin
        - Has "Disharmonic Oscillation" ability
            - Disharmonic Oscillation
                - Wave Cannons from ships in 8500 radius add 1,5dam/sec for 10secs to target (3 stacks)
                - Passive
                
        - Has "Targeting Computer Uplink" ability after research
            - Decrease Weapon Cooldown by 15%
            - 30 Sec. Duration
            - 45 Sec. Cooldown
            - Needs Antimatter

Any questions, ideas or thoughts about the mod?

Just leave a comment 

Special thanks this time to:

GoaFan77 - For the hint how to spawn buildings without using fake frigattes.

My steam "friends" that survived the "Starts playing sins" - "Stopped playing sins" popup spam during tests

Anyone who give this "mod" a chance *g*

Downloadlink

Can be found in the first post.

If all of the competitive multiplayer guys run around badmouthing other people

I am absolutly happy with my small list of (hope I remeber right) AI stomper friends.

They may not slap other players around but at least they know how to behave.

And just to clarify, there was no word lost about competitve multiplayer in this mod,

so I do not get while you are so aggressive about it. That this kind of players isn't the

target of a mod that adds more random factors to the game/map should be clear...I thought.

For a supposed rebalance mod, this sure does add a whole lot of things. Not that that's inherently bad, but based on your changelogs over time, it seems you might have lost your focus: while new random events may be cool and all, you seem to have overlooked quite a few fundamental gameplay issues in favor of adding new stuff. For example: there is a huge disparity between how games progress on smaller maps versus larger ones. Since you cannot create ludicrously long trade routes on smaller maps, population income is slightly superior to trade income, whereas trade income gets out of hand really fast on larger maps, especially if you're playing as TEC Loyalist. On smaller maps, logistic slots are quite valuable, so reaching tech tier 6 or 7 often means having no income or culture buildings, while larger maps make getting to tech tier 8 easy as pie; this is why your flat titan construction modification isn't such a good idea, since while it does improve the situation on larger maps, your changes mean that it's flatout impossible to get a Titan on smaller maps. Culture hits a lot faster (due to shorter distances) and a lot harder (due to lower income) on smaller maps versus larger ones. The list goes on and on... my point is, normalizing the two situations should be a top priority for mods whose sole aim is to rebalance vanilla gameplay (versus expanding it).

The representative "small map experience" would be something like Centrifuge, Balance of Power, or Counter Spin, while the apex of "large map experience" would be something like Random - Vast (Single). If you haven't already, give smaller maps a go, you'll be surprised how differently your games turn out [and then realize that playing on larger maps is a boring slog by comparison].

On a more selfish note, I'd also recommend you read up on improving the AI in my Artificial Unintelligence post. If you're short on time, just download the mod and diff my .entity files with the vanilla ones to find out what I've changed (I've left them in TXT, so no need to bother with converting), then copy those changes over to your files and see how things change. The main reason I'm mentioning this is because none of my changes would clash with your modifications (IIRC) even though changes are made to the same files, so you might as well implement them. Plus the information in the post should help you avoid forcing fallback routines onto the AI with seemingly benign changes; fallback routines are pretty much unavoidable in total conversion mods, but in expansion and rebalance mods, you can work around them quite well as long as you avoid messing with certain values.

If you still need the no mines version, it can be found here:

- No Mines Downloadlink ~66kb

Anything connected with mines (minelayer/defenses/researches) will be removed.

Nothing else is influenced.

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@Delnar_Ersike

You are right, the last changes were a little bit too much for a rebalance project. So I just removed that part from title and hope there are no more reasons for anyone to flame me or the project.

The first changes were made during a time we played mostly on tiny or small 1vs1 maps, thats where the planet and smaller cap-ship-reworks came from because the influence was bigger. Later we prefered large maps and there was more space for some other "improvements". So I guess you are right, somewhere the focus changed. 

So now there is mentioned above that it is designed for classic-sins players that prefer to play on large or huge maps and want to have some additional stuff without changing the whole universe or get lost in minespam-lag

And thanks for the link to your Artificial Unintelligence post.

I will have a closer look at it when I find more time to play around with Sins again.