Sweet.

By da by, forgot to say this way back when you were mentioning shield affects... they look awesome.

This is intentional, because Harrsk and Piett command Allegiance class Battlecruisers, which have a bit better stats than other hero flagships. Likewise Thrawn's research is at tier 5 and is a bit harder to get since he has an ISD, which is a bit better than vanilla caps.

The constraint in the "Buff_ING_RebelScumTarget" file is "HasAntiMatterPool", whereas in the parent "Ability_ING_RebelScum" file, the constraint is the appropriate "HasWeapons" value. Considering the nature of the ability, I'm guessing you don't mean for there to be different constraints?

The optional minimods are back!

Thanks for updating mini-mods. I don't have Moddb access. I concur with the other post there that the No Superweapons mod is broken. This is a new game session. I can't make my own superweapons, but it appears at least some of the enemy empires can still build theirs. I've seen plenty of Galaxy Gun and Novalith shots flying through my region and at me.

Current game is me as Rebels, vs Empire, Warlords, HTS, Orthodox Advent, VCC. While E4X artifact stations include superweapons too, I have personally destroyed a few Novalith cannons attacking the HTS as my immediate neighbor so I have at least confirmed that type is being built. Most of the other empires are too far away for me to check on specifics, but I frequently hear the superweapon activation warning.

Load Order:

enabledModName "INT Deathmatch Mode"
enabledModName "INT All E4X Random Encounters"
enabledModName "E4X No Superweapons"
enabledModName "E4X Resetting Titan Levels"
enabledModName "E4X Expanded Research"
enabledModName "E4X Doubled Fleet Supply and Capitalships"
enabledModName "E4X Enhanced AI"
enabledModName "INT Lend-Lease Capitals"
enabledModName "E4X non-Vasari Phase Gate"
enabledModName "E4X Exploding Mines"
enabledModName "E4X Alternate Main Menu Music"
enabledModName "Star Wars Interregnum Alpha 3.21"
enabledModName "Enhanced 4X Mod 1.811"

All of the AI are set to Hard Aggressor in my game.

Also confirm superweapon use by VCC. Oddly, despite solidly being in the lead and holding the most planets, so far I am not seeing any superweapon shots by Orthodox Advent.

I think you're not taking into account the extra health boost that the MC80's credibility ability grants. The spawned X-4s should have identical stats to ones you build yourself, but since they spawned in range of the MC80 it immediately grants the extra health. Since its a flat X increase ships with small health pools like the X4 or Corellian Corvette benefit the most, and at higher levels can more than double their hit points.

Well that would basically be equivalent to immediately healing the target for the same amount every time they entered the ability's area, which would be extremely exploitable. Ships keep any extra hit points they had when they the buff wears off, but they need to naturally generate or get healed up to the new maximum. As far as I'm concerned its working as I intended.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/204880/discussions/0/154642447915096966/

Hello! I have been trying to download the latest release of your mod (great work by the way) from moddb, but the download never starts and the archive I get says that its an unknown format or damaged.

Any help? Thanks!

I have read the complains on ModDB about slow down at large games. One problem which seams to have worsen with sins 1.86 (and 1.87) is buffEntityModifierType "DamageSharing" (vanilla advent ability), that is causing heavy slow down, even the game to stop with many ships. Without any CPU load. Seams some sort of deadlock, specific when they are attacked with area damage weapons.

PS: A minimod to replace the effect could solve the issue

I also get some random crashes now, I could not track down. They seam engine related, maybe 4X is using abilities/buffs on planets that don't work any more "as advertised".

Hope it helps.

The "DamageSharing" issue already was in earlier Sins versions. I recognized it when helping on the Maelstrom mod. In latest Sins versions (can't remember since when) it wasn't an issue, I only remembered it when reading the complains about Advent. So I run some test games and I'm pretty sure it is this ability (again).

On the crashes:

I'm modding around myself a little, nothing serious but enough the savegame wouldn't help(?)

I don't think it is the PC. I'm also running another CPU & RAM heavy sim game, but also I can run medium maps with 4 to 6 players without issues. Where to say I busted fleet support to 3000 and more and have large fleets battling around without a problem other than slow down due to many thing going on. So the crashes seam really very specific to vast & huge random maps, independent on what the (AI) players are doing.

Now just thinking I recognized a new "hard" limit on ships. I wanted to test the limits on the new engine and pushed fleet support to 6000 which caused a crash when multiple AI would reach this. In 1.85 sins would slow down to a crawl but not crash. I wonder if there is a new "limit" on planets or planet related abilities/buffs that causes trouble?

Probably something that just kicks in on new game start. I never was able to repeat the early (few seconds into game) crashes, even with a save games just a moment before the crash. When loading the game again it runs for an hour or so before the next crash. But as said only with very large maps.

Now even with the Dev exe and using record/watch to check any used ability, I was unable to locate the issue. So it must be the PC or an engine bug.