We are the 31th and filefront is always working fine !!!

just to report a bug or get answers to this puzzle. on the wraith tech tree there are 2 levels of horizontal upgrades for armor and then below those two lines there is a uh....reactor upgrade line and i cant figure out how to get the reactor or the second armor upgrade lines to work

Played this mod as Ancients yesterday for 7 hours or so and i loved it and i have a crappy pc (dimention 3000 512 ram lol) no problems playing as far as i saw ued the SGgalaxy one gotta say though i would love a deadlus class shipp thrown in (i know doesn't fit with ancients) about the right size for a frigate and my fav looking ship. Great job keep up the good work

I just read that filefront will not be shutting down, and will infact be resuming normal operation.  The official information is at the following ---> http://welcome.filefront.com/ 

 I know its my first post, but thought this was relivent information the mod team might need or want.

Anyways, I really love the mod!! I am definatly looking forward to future releases.

I had considered that but I was trying to avoid using the same basic ability again.

Secondly, while the Valhalla station can be extremely powerful and difficult to take out, I was trying to position it to be more of an empire tool (economic, culture, etc) rather than a straight up combat juggernaut.  The level 3rd weapon upgrade does a ton of damage per second as it is, particularly if your empire has done it's beam weapon upgrades.

That's not to say that it couldn't be given one or that I outright refuse to make one for it, I just didn't feel it was necessary given the Valhalla's many other attributes and what I was going for.  I'd also prefer not to simply give it another "me too" ability and nothing compelling has come to mind just yet.

-dolynick

The SGI project doesn't plan to have the Asgard in their initial release.  They most certainly do have at least some tentative plans to include then in the second part of the mod.  I couldn't say exactly what form the Asgard would take in SGI though, as EOmega seems to be "setting" the mod according to the current show timeline.  By that measure, the Asgard are more or less wiped out according to cannon.  You'd be better off asking him exactly what he has planned for them in SGI part 2.

And yeah, the Ragnarok is ridiculously powerful.  It's meant to be a doomsday device and it certainly can mean that to your enemies.  I may have gone a bit too far with it but something like that is a tricky thing to balance.  Ideally, I'd like there to be another "cost" to building one aside from just the outright credit/metal/crystal price but the game has somewhat limitted options for handly that in a good way.

-dolynick

I may have to revisit that ability.  I wanted it to be able to inflict massive damage onto a fleet as beffitting it's name and ideally thin the ranks out a bit with each firing.  That isn't so easy to accomplish and still keep things in check.  What I may have to do is increase the initial blast damage and reduce the "propogated" damage on the secondary and tertiary impacts.

That aspect of the Asgard is probably the single most difficult thing to balance.  Not having any strikecraft leaves them at a MASSIVE dissadvantage to other races.  I didn't really want to make all their ships really large and costly (like the Ancients) so that meant giving them ways of effectively mitigating the threat from strikecraft.  The thing about strikecraft is that you can kill them by the thousands and you've never really destroyed anything in the opposing fleet that costs a single penny to replace or build in the first place.

Right now I may have erred on the "too effective" side of things when it comes to capital ship abilities vs strikecraft.  Aside from rendering carriers useless against them though, that still leaves everything else in the enemy fleet as an effective threat which is probably better than having the entire Asgard fleet overly vulnerable to strikecraft.  Things don't seem to get too out of whack until you get both an Odin and a Heimdall to lvl 6 with their ultimate abilities and even then, the above is the result and not necessarily instant "win" over the enemy fleet.

Of course, the AI's apparent love for carrier spam doesn't help as it doesn't adapt well to having it's strikecraft hoards neutralized.  I think a living player with any of the races would contend with that aspect of the Asgard much more readily.

It's strange you say that about the Asgard.  I have never found them to be a particularly lucrative race.  That is, at least not until I start rolling out Valhalla Stations which can throw their economy into overdrive.  Which researches in specific have you found to have an overly dramatic effect on their economy?

You've summed up the Ancients and Wraith fairly well.

The main Ancient combat ships are loaded with weapons that's for sure.   They have to be though in order to be viable.  I should note that in many cases the laser weapons they use are most effective against strikecraft and other light frigates rather than heavier ships.  That is why they don't have a dedicated "flak" frigate.

The Wraith are supposed to be somewhat like a weed.  They spread easily and are very adaptable to most environments which translates into them being able to build bigger colonies on the more inhospitable planet types.  If you leave them unchecked they can become a real nightmare, especially if they tech up or reach their "end game" scenario.  The AI doesn't seem to use it though, at least not in any game I've played yet.  My most recent playtest is using the Wraith so the next update will address some issues and mistakes I've found with them.  I have noted how the Overlord star base is surprisingly more formiddable than I expected it to be as well.  That's not a bad thing, I just didn't expect it to be quite as good as it seems to really be.

-dolynick

The reseach gives the aguard high population cap combined with culture makes them have very hightax income. you conbine this with SB upgrades and trade ports and you have a very pwerful economy. Aditionally the aguard have research for more logistic points, so even dead asteroids can have a trade port allowing for longer chains. Late game even with high fleet upkeep they have an impressive income rate. I can easily see how a player could afford 2 maybe even 3 ragnorocks in very late game making them unstoppable even against a very formiddable ancient fleet.

With Valhalla Stations that is quite true.  I designed it to be able to drive their economy though rather than be an outright "death star" type base.  Prior to Entrenchment and the star base, I didn't find their economy to be all that strong outright without massive investment into trade ports and refineries.  Their culture isn't that great and it's spread upgrades are not that impressive.  They have no max allegiance bonus from research either which also keeps them down from the other two races.  You are right that the sum of their research can give them a powerful economy.  I was just wondering if you found any single research in particular to be overpowering in that respect.

-dolynick 

My understading is that the best you can do is allow travel within a gravity well for a star base.  You cannot have a star base capable of phase jumps.

It is possible to have an upgradeable capital ship in some sense though.  You can have weapons that are accessible only via research and the ship model/mesh change based on research as well.  You can't do it like a star base where they have innate upgrades though and you are still limitted to the three weapon slot design.  It would also not be possible to do trade or factory type stuff using a capship entity.  You could have limitted ship "building" via abilities (like the constructor cruisers each race has) but they would obviously take up ability slots for each type of construction and you are limitted to 5 total.

This was a consideration for Atlantis (as a star base instead of a capital ship) when Entrenchment came along but neither way of handling it would properly represent Atlantis as per the show.  Thus, Atlantis remained as a capital ship as before.

-dolynick

love the mod keep up the good work

Great mod, any plans to improve and/or add textures to some of the models?