akaliel

I noticed that the Diplomacy version of this doesn't come with any extras. Any word on adding those?

Any comment on the slow travel around stars? It's a great mod otherwise, but we're kinda forced to play in single system galaxies to avoid them, or was that the intention?

I noticed that travel around stars is very slow. Is this intentional or a bug? It took something like 15 minutes real time to go from one end of a star to another. A klingon fleet wiped me out while I was waiting for my fleet to get home.

There's some odd elitism on these boards too. I remember there were a discussion on whether adding some evasive combat movement for the larger ships would make the battles look more interesting instead of like a civil war stand off. One guy came on and actually claimed it would be against the lore of the game to add combat movement.

I was hoping that we'd see the frigates and bigger ships have some combat movement at some point. Make those big battles look a little more interesting and less like the civil war. I know people think this will make the big battles hard to discern. All we're doing is selecting a fleet and giving them a target. Well, I'll just keep on dreaming. This would be especially good for the Star Trek mod. Which would have combat looking pretty lame otherwise.

How about this. We have a check box in the game play options. If you click it on, then frigates and larger ships will move around and dogfight in their respective speeds. If you uncheck it, they don't. Then everybody is happy and we don't have to hear people explain why ship movement during combat is unrealistic, absurd, and I can't believe I read this earlier, but "against the lore".

I'd love to see the ships, frigates especially, try to evade fire in combat. Isn't that what experienced crews are supposed to do? Then you could actually make experienced crews more effective in combat by simply fighting better. Instead just giving a +1 onto their weapon strength. The fights as is as so boring to watch. Both sides just line up like some 18 century english army and shoot at eachother until one side is out of ships.