Pretty much just like what you did.

No ma'am.

You've provided more then enough.  It's a known issue.

The fix, as you seem to be a competent modder is as simple as opening up the entity manifest and re-adding the line entityName "QuestKillCivilianModulesLow.entity" and upping the entity count by 1 at the top.  Should stop the diplomacy screen crashes.

Strike craft are still effective across the gravity well en masse.  Just not as good as they used to be thus allowing ships that deal with them the opportunity to actually deal with them before they rape your starbases and capital ships one by one.

That's kind of the point, isn't it.  The goal is to reduce the numbers of strike craft present in a game.  Though if you're bold enough, you can move your carrier cruisers closer to the action and thus buff your strike craft and let the devastating waves of pain and punishment begin, but at the risk of losing those cruisers.  It's a decent trade off, tactically speaking.

And they still can.  They still field strike craft and can still do so from the safety of sitting at the edge of the gravity well.

It's only a problem if you let it be one.  Though that is an excellent 'defense', it doesn't fix the AI's issue with colonizing, losing, recolonizing, losing, recolonizing, losing, etc...  Another way to deal with it is to just send your own colony ship over and colonize it after the AI loses it and not doing the planet exploration upgrades since you know it's a bad thing.

Why would you say that?  If they're not good enough to be included in the attack force, then they sure as hell won't be included in a defense force.

Will get to that tomorrow. 

Unless I beat you to it! 

I'd like to suggest that instead of reducing the elites to the normal levels, adding in light strike craft to be used by the light carriers.  This way you could still keep the elite strike craft in and only field them by starbases to limit their use to defenses primarily.

In my defense, the wording doesn't say that.

It says that their status will be changed to the lesser status of defense (as opposed to assault).  See, not so silly am I? 

In practice, you won't notice any difference if that's your usual method.  I don't and I'm specifically looking for it.  Though with enough carrier spam I can still pop a starbase in a single pass.  =Þ  The range I'm looking at making it is a little higher then the TEC starbase missile range.  Currently, they are just within range of the missile frigate.  Putting them close to the star base, but just outside it's range gives the strike craft a buff on every run from that side and also forces the starbase to either move closer in the case of the orky, or reach out with it's own strike craft, or to rely on the hanger defenses in the gravity well.

Exactly.

If I were to place a bet on how many people like dynamic movement versus those who don't, I'd probably lose, but I do know that I, as well as the majority, don't like it... But it is included as a minimod add on for those who do like it because there is a large enough group that does like having it.  It's not up to date though.  To do this is somewhat easy as well.  All you have to do is grab a copy of all of the combat frigates and change the focus fire and use fighter attack values to these:

prefersToFocusFire FALSE
usesFighterAttack TRUE

The hardest part about it is just making sure you got all of them.

Good.

If they amuse you now, wait until the updated powerful pirates graces your PC.    Personally, I want to retro the pirates back to their uber hitpoint and DPS starbases.    Now that looked like some seriously good fun.

My bet would be the entity files in the Dynamic Movement's mod folder. Usually located (If in Windows 7): "C:\Users\{Your User Name}\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Diplomacy v1.31\Dynamic Movement\GameInfo"

My Question is... What do I use to edit an Entity file with so I can have my Dynamic Movement working right?!?

Yeah, that was bad wording.... my bad.  You get the point now.  I just didn't want them to just have to sit there and guard against bombers and thats it.

I would have minimodded it just like the original DM, but it's not bad if you overwrote the other files.  All of the files of the ships are exactly the same as the B4 release, just with the focus fire set to false and the prefers to fighter attack set to true.  Everything else stayed the exact same.  Ultimately it's your preference on how you want it to run on your system.

The feedback I'm hoping to get is the overall speed and turn rates, and maybe a little input on the damage done per pass.  In the original DM it appeared to be rather sporadic on a few things.  Some ships had increased speed, whereas some had reduced speeds.  Some had damage values doubled whereas others didn't.  Most had angular acceleration rates changed to numbers that appeared to be pulled out of thin air while some ships maintained their original turns...  I personally don't care for that approach.

So if for example the heavy cruisers are taking forever to get back and make another pass, I'd need to know if there's a ship which is turning at a good rate, like the scouts, to compare numbers to as well as if battles are taking too long because there's just not enough bang per pass either because of flying by too quickly making for less shots on target or because the weapons themselves need to take some steroids.

I also need input on the missile frigates and torpedo cruisers.  If they should be made to stay put or if shooting on the run is good for them.  I was also thinking that the slower the ship makes a pass, the faster it should turn around, but I went out to a bar instead of working on anything so...  Yeah.  Deal with it. 

Isn't that fairly micro intensive? I'm a fan of giving the light carriers, 'light' fighters / 'light' bombers and leaving everything else on capitals etc alone. Heck, give defensive hangers light and then the 'elite' etc ... I think that would be simpler than making the cpu do extra calculations.

One thing I never did like with the carriers was how effective they were and how hard they were to kill. The fact that ultimately they are defenseless also some how bothers me.

Why not just go with Light Carrier = Light Strike Craft Weapons Plat Form + Weaker Carrier Shields / Hull + Carrier Light Flack Defense (or pulse)? Carriers, even in today's military let alone a space scenario, should never be driven into a nasty firefight for any reason that I can think of. Keep their cost high but reduce how effective their payload is, how tough they are, and but give them just a smidgen of hope against other strike craft. That would force players to use ship tactics more than fighter tactics. It might also save the CPU some cycles which would free up the late game even more.

*brainstorms*

I was not talking about them being in a fleet already but controlled separately to keep them just out of the firefight but close enough to buff. (i.e. Ctrl1, Ctrl2, etc)

I was thinking of when you mentioned micro-ing the carrier to be just outside of the Star Base range as well as an ongoing (as of yet unresolved as far as I can read) debate about it's range against LRFs. Just seems like a large 'fiddle-factor' compared to most everything else in the game.

In WW2 and even today Carriers have some defensive armament (outside of their strike force task groups). Largely carrier groups were meant to protect the carrier with the destroyers and screening units to race forward to deploy smoke and engage the enemy while the carrier stayed back (when possible) on the back side of the group. Just some thoughts.

Use the converters. They can be found in the game file and are always up to date. harpo99999 tools can use they to change the files from BIN to TXT.

This.

This is why this new carrier buff is being applied.  Its to make carriers part of the battle not some distant harbringers of doom. We didnt want to discougage Carrier use. By all mean spam them like you do now. We did want to elimiate the jump in with large carrier group, send bomber or fighter to battle ACROSS THE GRAV WELL, laugh as you rape chruches and burn women, and if the enemy survives your onslaught and makes an attempt to attck your carriers the abiliy to warp out with out threat.

I could go on and on about how much SC SUCK. But I'll save yall the speech Ryat and Nacey got.

You want to eliminate this by buffing them? What? oO

I don't see the Problem in this tactic, not directly a fair fight but who cares?

Setup Mines should help to bring most of them down when they come in and after that you know that there will be more maybe and you can direct your fleet to the gravity well and say Hello.

 Oh btw, if you want some possible inspiration fir DS have a look at the Galactic Armory Mod for Star Rulers. Pretty different in many Ways but who knows?

How this works is we reduced all not 'elite' SC damage by 33%.

Cruiser Carriers now have a buff that buffs their linked SC by 33%.

So it promotes bringing Cruiser Carriers into a fight per se insead of chilling alone at the edge of the grav well.

This change is to elimnate SC hordes from basically controling an entire grav well, and letting Cruiser Carriers 'fight' with any worry of damage. There is no other unit that can just sit back and run if in trouble and do the damage that Carriers can. It break the game.

Another added benfits is now Caps can hopfully retreat from a battle without being bomber straffed to death.

This really will only affect you, if your one of those asshole who spam carrier only and let them chill at the grav well edge. If you dont do that then...your solid. Just might actually have to postion carriers a bit or SC. A tiny bit more mirco but adds ton to gameplay.

Be glad they shot down my other SC ideas.