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Something you don't mention as well is that the Progenitor would have 2 strikecraft points at level 5. If your opponent had fighters (and unless he was really bad he would), the bombers effectiveness would be really reduced. And i've found that of the 3 colony ships, the Progenitor is the most effective and damaging in fleet combat damage wise out of all 3, but the carrier's generally are not as effective themselves as other combat cap ships. Plus, the way the Progenitor's weapons are arrayed c

No the advent have an ability that let the defense hangar squadrons have an additional 2 strike craft per squadron. The Advent carrier has a passive ability that lets each squadron have 3 extra craft at level 3. And the guy saying there's an ability to let the sova have an extra squadron, I think thats actually the advent carrier's ability (maybe vasari's as well)

I think he means having it run on both at the same time, not maxing one core and having the other idling. I don't think it's possible if thats what your after. Maybe in a patch or expansion hopefully.

My general list of names for TEC are names i've gotten out of sci fi books, other games, and just off the top of my head Reckoning (always my first Kol name) Defiant Reliant Valiant Kunetsov Intrepid Bestower Restorer Horizion Devastator Gorgon Explorer Imperius

It's on a map to map basis. Certain maps are designed specifically for certain players to start next to each other. Im not sure if its positioning based on what slot you're in or team based, but they do exist.

Using the black market is also very helpful at early stages of the game. Often times you might end up with some asteroids near your starting planet, so the population won't be there right away to give you a signifigant increase in credits per second. but often times, especially if say you've got a volcanic planet in your posession you'll have an abundance of metal you're never going to spend any time soon. So sell a bunch off to the market and make some easy money, since early on you're going to

Broadcast tower will help your planet, regardless of where it is. And you get the effect you describe when you've got a fleet there because Cap Ships have culture pushback the affects the systems they're in.

Beautiful theme! I agree with DethAdder, whoever made this did a good job :)

I have to agree with the Kol/Dunov combo, its a very versatile group, especially combined with robotics cruisers. My "main fleet" group with the TEC will usually consist of 3 Kols, 2 Dunovs, and 1 each of Sova, Akkan, and Marza.

You can also try and coordinate your attacks with the firing, since capital ships repel culture at the planet they're located.

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just tried playing around with the useractionicon lines. Trying to copy the way the frigates are done with the 0 and 1 results in the game hardlocking my computer when I try to enable the mod. Its too bad that this seems to be the sole issue for adding new cap ships, as Sins will recognize any new ship added, as shown if you remove an existing cap ship.

I tried copying the hudicon coords for the colony frigate, since I figured it was just a general screen area it was referencing. Sadly no luck.

That is what I was looking for, thanks.

I think you'd need to create a map using galaxy forge. In that you can assign a home planet to a specific player. Im not sure if you can assign them based on teams, so at the most you'd have to have the order of joining the way the teams would be set up.

I'm trying to toy around with modding in more capital ship variants to the game. Right now im working on a Kol Battleship that's slightly offensively weaker than its normal self, but can carry strike craft right away. I can't find what I need to edit to change this though. Where should I be looking? Edit; I loading this mod into Sins, and I get a minidump crash everytime I try. Am I trying to reference something wrong?

I think a nice beginning fix for PJI's would either to lower the tactical cap as said above, or increase the range so a single one will cover a full planet. Maybe a good way to balance out having increased jump time vs defenses could be to keep their current cap, but give them a stacking bonus to jump time. So you could have more PJI's at the cost of less actual defenses in a system.

I have to agree with the people saying that turrets are actually pretty good. I managed to take out a Marza with about 8 Gauss' firing at it. It took about a minute, but considering its a Cap ship, i'd say thats pretty good unassisted. Focus firing your defenses when its all you have is really the key to making them work until your fleet can make it there.

I think acceleration/deceleration would work a lot better and probably be simple(r) to implement. Basically when a ship gets in range, or maybe just about in range, the ship's engines will cut out and it'll "drift" into position, maybe giving it a slight random yaw and pitch so they arent in the exact direction they were facing, noticeable enough that you notice it, but subtle enough it doesnt really effect firing arcs that much. If you apply this across a fleet, the net effect would be that you

Silly question, but will savegames in 1.1 still work with this patch? I dont want to restart my random huge game.

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