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Shadowhal, For example, Sword of the Stars (SOTS) is a turn-based 4x with real-time tactical combat and has SIX races. Its first release had four factions, and added two more with two expansions. It would be a great disappointment to me if SOASE doesn't at least get in the ball park of six races/factions. And quite frankly, the TEC, Advent, and Vasari don't feel different enough as is to warrant the lack of races/factions. Right now, it feels as if Ironclad's

The 4x aspect isn't really going to be there until IC implements more races/factions. I'm not just talking about one or two. We need GalCivII or SEV amounts of races/factions for it to have the feel of an epic space empire game. It'll possibly be harder to balance than other 4x games b/c there is more emphasis on combat, but SOTS did it (with 6). I hope a big expansion adds a least 4 more factions/races.

If you could do a resized Doomstar/battleball, Dyson Sphere , and Ringworld (complete with superweapon ability like in Halo haha), I would be a very happy camper. [e digicons]:D[/e] I guess technically dyson spheres were supposed to be built around stars in order to capture all energy that stars output. And for stellar manipulation: I wonder if you could just resize an explosion animation to be the size of a planet, and somehow make it do a switcheroo to asteroids

Haha. I love this thing. I was hoping someone would create a death star-like ship, so I have a wish (that I can't expect to come true)... Please, please make it be able to destroy a planet, leaving only asteroids behind! And then give it another ability to form planets from asteroids! Sorry, I'm a huge stellar manipulation/conversion fan. I also wish someone would create ring worlds and dyson spheres at some point in a mod. Like you can stum

uhhh. is that thing like a moving starbase? err, what does it do?

Danman, Loving the mod, but have a few suggestions: Atlantian research: It's incredibly unclear what techs unlock certain ships. Only Ares actually reads "Unlock: Ares" under one of the techs in the tech tree. So, as a user you're just clicking and guessing until eventually you unlock capital ships, or Titans. I'm guessing the techs dealing with hull research unlock them... God Machine and Avatar (S

In the game, you spell capital ship wrong for all the Atlantian ships. Is there a way I can go in and easily fix this? It is kinda driving me bonkers. Also, I like your inclusion of stellar conversion, but can you also reform planets after you destroy them like in the Moo series? You could also add new portraits for the Star Control races using images from Star Control 3. The Star Control 2 ones look a bit dated. You can fi

Evil, in my last post I meant "change picture set" not theme.

Evil, On the player set-up where you can choose themes, the Vasari pic doesn't show up. Just a repeat of the advent pic.

Yeah, I know about Flagships but maybe I'm saying more story to them. Have three vessels that are like... Emperor blah blah's personal vessel or whatever. Be comparable to the one Flagship but give certain bonuses related to the character. Perhaps even when you click on the ship, the icon in the lower display shows the character rather than a drawing of the ship...

I've tried that. I also might just lower the settings. I downloaded that Vista patch that's supposed to help. I'll check back after a few more games.

Perhaps an extremely dumb question: I know this game has "Autosave" in single player, but it won't let me just "Save" a game I'm playing. Is it supposed to? Edit: Nevermind, me dumb.

I think I have the same problem. Get a runtime error. Running vista 64, game on highest settings.

My game has crashed twice now halfway through a game. I get a "runtime error." Don't think it's b/c of the original game. Something (mysterious) to do with your mod IMHO. Hmmm... It might be b/c of the artifact issue. I dunno though.

Wow man, this is tre cool. :CONGRAT:

I got this idea by posting in evil's Star Wars mod. Has anyone thought about making leaders for the vanilla races? For example, players can create like 3 ships which are the personal vessels of leaders from the game. Obviously we don't have a lot of the background of the game, but perhaps we could speculate.

Hey evil, Question 1: have you thought about calling the unaligned forces Black Sun? (if they represent the underworld)... Or it'd be great if you could make a pirate faction called Black Sun with StarViper ships and other infamous underworld vessels. That's one thing I hated about Empire at War was that Zann's faction should have just been the Black Sun. Xizor was really the head of the Underworld, and if not him, the Hutts. Maybe they were trying to be original.

I think you're right on about placing the artifacts near the center. A lot of the balanced TI3 maps do it that way.

I think a map is a great start! I definitely think making the central star (Mecatol Rex) special is very important to capturing the feel of TI. Yeah, TI is one of those things that few people play b/c it takes so long, and it's hard to convince others to learn.

Yeah, definitely do Borg after the first release.

I've done very little modding so I'm the wrong dude to spearhead this project, but someone should do a mod of Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition with Shattered Empire. For those who are unaware, it's a board game from Fantasy Flight Games. I think most modern 4x games borrow from a lot of its elements.