That's not entirely clear. I'd have to double check the next time I play it, but the Victory-I and I believe II were both first added by the game TIE Fighter as a lower poly Star Destroyer they could use for most game missions. As such, I'm pretty sure they had two originally.

Over time though the Victory-II has been shown to look more and more like the Imperial class, with EaW giving it turrets and three engines, in part because it was just an adaption of their ISD model. The recent Star Wars Armada boardgames (perhaps the last thing still using the old Expanded Universe) also have their model with turrets, not sure about the engines on that one.

The only real certain differences between the VSD-I and II is that the VSD-II has better engines (not necessarily a different configuration), and the VSD-I has missiles while the VSD-II has Ion Cannons.

Also the old VSD model had only two engines, so at least we're keeping it consistent.

You'd have to tell me what kind of planet it is. All systems with resource asteroids should be either colonizeable, allowing you to build mines, or already have neutral mining bases you can capture if the planet is not colonzieable. You can capture things with either your scout or colony frigates depending on your faction.

Ya I was able to capture the Riods and derelict ships. I just used the scouts for Imperial and Rebels use a frigate. Like TEC race and Advent....

Can you put up a screenshot? I've never heard of this before.

Well there you go, chances are they are/were (if it is not canon anymore) transitioning the Victory-II to be a more clear prototype for some of the features of the ISD. But I am pretty sure it did not start out that way. Regardless, I think Max's model of it is perhaps his perhaps his best work to date, and easily the best looking Victory class ships I've seen. Even though I could agree it would be nice to have three engines to make them more different.

Here, hope you can see it:

Lurker dropping by to say Hi @GoaFan77 and thanks for your work. I look forward to New Republic in particular. I understand it made more sense to do the Rebel Alliance first and build from there. A bit hard to be patient but beggars can't be choosers.

I only recently understood the plans to upgrade the Pirates into Mandalorians. Makes a lot of sense - playing on vast 10 side FFAs, the factions really throw their weight around on the map and a raid of the cartel member ships just doesn't seem to have enough oomph to be viewed as really threatening on that scale. A raid backed with Mandalorian capships, on the other hand...

Personally have no significant bugs to report beyond running out of memory even on LAA. I've adjusted my visual settings lower and that did the trick. Depending on how the Mandalorians are balanced, it might be good to have a small minimod to double the raid spawn size to go with Deathmatch + Double Fleet caps. The raids tend to be brushed aside rather easily by faction fleets at those settings.

It would be rather amusing if it turns out the Vasari are actually running from the Yuuzhan Vong, after accidentally getting Vong attention by opening a different intergalactic wormhole through their phase gate experiments in core of their fallen empire. It would make some sense too, since Sins factions have comparable tech effectiveness to Star Wars factions in this setting, and the Vong were initially overwhelming when they attacked. Also, I don't know if they would share their assets, but the Thrawn team will have Hapan, Duskan League, and Ssi-ruk ship models - would be interesting additions for independent system variety or random events. I'm happy with the scope of the mod as is and you've done a lot so this doesn't rise to the level of going 'oh hey Goa, could you do this too?'. Wouldn't be right to ask that. Still, one can go 'wouldn't it be cool if?' and dream a little.

No problem, thanks for your help. Here is the new screenshot with the needed details:

Basically all of it. Or everything that's not going to be shared with the Rebels. Which is probably half the tech tree, and more than half of the ships will be unique to the New Republic.

Not easily, though there is one thing I could try now that you mention it.

Actually, someone just sent me quite a few cool maps. I am going through them one by one to make tweaks for balance and a few odd cases of poor positioning, but I hope to release a map pack within the next week. At that time, I'll release a news post about how you can share maps, what I will look for if you want to make maps that will be included with the base mod, and things like that.

Thanks Franky. I'm going through the mod now to see how this might have happened. Do you happen to remember what map this was, or at least if it was a random map or not? Also, were you using any other mods besides E4X/Interregnum?

If necessary try lowering you graphics (ship/structure/planet) detail as well, even if you're sure you have LAA. A few people reported having stability issues with LAA and that reducing graphics settings still helped. Perhaps for whatever reason LAA does not work properly on all PCs; sadly I have little way of knowing.

Alliance MC80 capitalships do different things, but all have abilities that either improve defense or provide healing. Combine this with further healing benefits from the Nebulon-B Frigate and Bulk Cruiser, as well as their durable late tier units like the Assault Frigate and MC40a, and Rebel fleets can be very difficult to kill. Just like the Battle of Endor, the main Rebel Fleet is intended to outlast its opponents while its fighters do major damage.

Per fleet supply your fighters are definitely a bit more powerful. They become easily the best fighters in the game when you get the Starfighter Doctrine research, since this gives an extra fighter to all squads, I.e. a +25-33% increase in the total HP and damage of each squad. The Imperials have more units that can deploy small groups of basic TIE Fighters but their units are also much more expensive. 

Any of the Interdictor Cruiser units. I had to program Interdictor cruisers to work differently for the AI since they could not handle the complexity of using them properly. So they act as moving phase jump inhibitors for the AI. For human players they stop all hyperspace jumps, but only while they have antimatter, and they can be interrupted or will be forced to stop if they take enough damage.

There is not a whole lot of units that can disable Starbase abilities. However very powerful units, like the hero unit Grand Admiral Thrawn or Darth Vader (a titan) do have abilities that can accomplish this, as can your own Liberty Mon Calamari cruisers.

None of these units can keep up abilities disabled by themselves though, so unless there were several different units capable of doing it, you should have had some window to use the ability. It just unfortunately wasn't when you needed to use it.

Rebel QuasarFire carriers do not have weapons. However, they do bomb planets with their Y-wing squadrons. All Rebel units bombard the planet with Y-wings because they are typically against the massive turbolaser orbital bombardment so often used by the Empire. The Alliance is also all about dual role units, like their light Frigate, the CR90 being a minelayer and the Galofree transport acting as a special constructor for deep space stations and planetary Ion Cannons. If you are attacking a heavily fortified system I set all my units to local engagement range, that should help keep them out of trouble.

All standard carrier cruisers in this mod cost 21 fleet supply. This was a change from Enhanced 4X that tried to reduce the number of fighters (and thus lag) by increasing carrier costs and fighter stats by 50% over Vanilla Sins. Capitalships also had the number of fighters they can carry reduce to account for the stronger fighters.

Sadly the infocard for Starfighter Doctrine is a bit misleading. It actually increases the number of fighters in each squad by 1. For some reason the infocard is treating it as a percent, as 1 = 100%, probably because this modifier was never actually used in the Vanilla game.

This is still very good for the Rebels though, since they have the smallest squads in the game. So X-Wing, B-wings and Y-wings get a 33% boost from this tech since they go from 3 to 4 fighters, while A-wings go from 4 to 5 for a 25% increase.

Thanks for the awesome mod!

Quick question - is the Rebel insurrection center considered to be its tactical super weapon, for the purposes of the no super weapon minimod?

In terms of feedback, the one thing I believe I can reasonably testify to is that it seems like the Rebel's mechanics don't hold up well when fleet caps have been maximized (large fleet + deathmatch + double fleet). In particular, Imperials bring enough antifighter support to negate Rebel carriers, and so many interdictors that you usually can't clear them out to remove all the jump inhibitors before the encounter has been decided - whereas the Sins factions and other hostile Imperials feel relatively more suited to slugging it out directly with combat ships. Despite having a #1 map rating on research with 3/4 of the combat upgrades done, I've experienced that large Rebel fleets based on combined arms just don't seem be very effective when they try to stand their ground in mass fleet engagements, again, especially against Imperials. Liberty capships do their best to taunt and tank but they tend to pop one by one even with repair support. I can't tell at this point if I'm playing the Rebels wrong or if its a result of the large fleets running about on the high fleet cap settings, but my experience so far tends to lead me towards the concept that Rebels are meant to scatter, harass, and hide until they've basically capped out all their research upgrades - only then can they seriously build a fleet and attempt an offensive. If that is how its supposed to be, it is rather thematically appropriate, but the viability of the faction becomes very sensitive to the chosen map layout. They don't seem to thrive on maps that are designed around defensive bastions or bottlenecks that force fleet encounters - instead they feel most suited to relatively open large maps where they can perform hit and run tactics while scattering colonies everywhere.

I may just fire up Sins and try this mod out. Thx Goafan77 for keeping this game alive. I just might be pushed into making some more changes to DS.

Re: Insurrection Center, thanks for the clarification.

No problem about how Rebels handle with the minimods - that was intended more as an observation than an actual complaint. Again, I'm still not sure I'm actually playing them correctly.

Well, possible tweaks aside it is successful in being thematically different from the other factions in how it handles, and that theme is in the tone I would expect for the Rebels.

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One thing about Interdictors though, the Rebels do have a counter for them. Your second hero units, Kre'fey, has a passive ultimate ability that makes units near him immune to jump prevention/delay effects. So Interdictors and Phase Jump Inhibitors won't work on any ships around him after you get that ability. Both the Rebels and Empire have counters to each other's strong points, or since Interdictors are a counter to the Rebel's mobility, perhaps we can say Kre'fey is a counter to the counter. 

Oh.... I didn't know that. Makes it somewhat ironic he died early in more than one engagement. Kre'fey, you are now fleet #2, hold position, just sit tight in the back with your fancy "nope we want to leave" aura plzkthx.