I think it may have been the pirate trading outpost encounter, but I could be wrong.

Again, this was a while ago and I cannot locate the save, but I am almost certain that the encounter was at a hydrocarbon planet.

This only happened to me once, but it was definitely at a colonisable planet. There were also a handful of Pirate ships in the gravity well. It was basically a 'neutral' pirate colony, which I assumed was a new E4X encounter at the time.

It happened on a random map, and judging by how I almost always play on random maps, and how it has happened to me only once, it oughtn't cause too much alarm. But yeah, if this is an unintentional occurrence, then it is a weird one...

Do you know how you captured the Interdictors? I thought we had fixed this bug already. I just tried capturing a few Interdictors with the Rebel MC80B Tractor Beam Array, but the debuff disappeared for me after I had killed or destroyed all Interdictors.

The AI Interdictors work different than when a player uses them; you have to manually use them but totally stop jumping, while the AI gives a 700% debuff to all enemy ships all the time. As far as I can tell though the AI only effects should all stop once they are captured.

Okay, it takes me a tiny bit longer to get hero units in to test so I was lazy and just tried the MC80B. I'll try it with Iblis, though I don't immediately see why that should matter.

Technically the Tractor Beam Array ability can capture multiple units per cast. 16 seems like a lot though. I would definitely scrap a lot of them even if they weren't bugged, that's a lot of fleet supply tied up in units that are only good against fighters in a fight.

If the ship has an "Ion Cannon" weapon on its info card, the Raider ability will work on it. Original player does not matter. So yeah, Vindicators and Strike Cruisers would be very useful for that.

A minor gripe I have always had is with the audio in this mod. While big improvements have been made in the last few months -  especially with Vader's voice - I still feel that the weapon fire sounds for the Star Wars factions desperately need to be lowered in volume for the beta release.

They overpower the sound volume of all of the vanilla weapon sfx, and also do not seem to fade properly as the player scrolls out, so as from a particular distance from a battle you can hear absolutely nothing but the weapon sounds from the Empire/Alliance, with all other sounds completely absent.

Lowering/equalizing the volume of the the mod's weapon sfx, along with improving their sound fade so as to resemble how the vanilla sounds fade out would be a huge improvement for the beta release. 

...Not sure why the last time I posted it gave my actual name over my username; I signed in with the exact same name & pw as usual. 

And this ghost account was made in 2010, apparently...and I got this game summer 2011!

SP00KY

YAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH!!11!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!

*Ahem*

Due to all of the other things that I have previously wanted to ask/annoy you about, I didn't really let on how much I thought you were mistaken in sacrificing RAM in order to render the shields 'invisible' in Interregnum. You know better than I do that shields are referred to one way or the other in the original trilogy, through ship design and certain dialogue, and so on. The lack of visible shields were likely due to how difficult such an effect would have been to pull off back in ye olden times in Hollywood. 

That said, I didn't realise the sheer amount of memory that this was taking up. If you really can save "hundreds of megabytes of RAM", then it seems like a no-brainer with the upcoming addition of more factions.

Go for it, I say.

I like the change on several levels. I prefer bubble shields visually. While invisible shields are more canon with the movie presentation, for Sins it just felt like an extra layer of armor HP with how it worked out. It was not something I felt the need to give negative feedback about before, but I like the new direction. I like how the bubble popping is a visual cue for the shields falling. I like that the memory savings create room for other potential features. On a more selfish note, the memory savings will support greater stability in my attempts to do 10 AI compstomps with DeathMatch and Double Cap enabled.

Really hoping 1.83 is finalized soon with no more surprise bugs. I recognize that isn't under the team's control, but I've been looking forward to New Republic for a while now. I can only imagine how frustrating trying to manage user confusion over the 1.82/1.83 beta fork has been for you. Best wishes.

Planets and ships are sadly not to scale at all in Sins. When you get to the largest units in the mod, scale becomes incredibly awkward. They are actually at a bit of a compromise size; if I scaled them to the size of ships they would be larger than most gravity wells, if I scaled them to planets, they'd be so small you wouldn't think were anything special. The current size I think makes them seem impressive, even if it takes away from the planets somewhat.

Really you just have to not compare things to the size of planets with this game, just think of planets as a background layer of sorts.

I'll take a look on the shields.

I set resolve to require the target to have weapons. Since it can heal I don't think its completely improper for it to be used even out of combat.

I get weird overlaps or spacing issues depending on the size of the models. There also seems to be some predefined spacing for certain units when it comes to fleet alignment or during battles. If certain models are too large compared to the original Sins models then you get more bumping or sitting right on top of each other perspective wise. Structures definately can get some weird placements depending on the size too.

The placementRadius might be a place to look for structures. It seems vanilla sins makes this ~150 larger than the mesh bounding radius.

I actually prefer the older ones...  

Maybe have the new model for either one of the enforcer or vindicator class, and keep the older model on the other for greater Imperial faction diversity...?

The complete loss of the current immobilizer model makes me sad :'(

Tell Max to stop traumatizing me with these new models, and instead update the unfinished textures on the Bellator and MC80A!

As for why I prefer the old models...I can't really point out many specifics. I think whoever did the previous models nailed the texture on the very edge of the ship, whereas this model, along with the IS-I, IS-II, and Tector-class models in Interregnum, tries to create a shadow effect on the edge of the ship by relying on the darkening of the textures and, I feel, ultimately obscuring the really intricate architecture seen on the edge of the imperial ships that could be portrayed through brighter textures. Obviously, this is just preference, there's certainly nothing wrong with his work - it's really high quality stuff

Ok, it's 2am; I need to stop this and sleep...