Yeah, now that u mention it, my SSD mesh is still large by capital ship means but seems akward being only 1.5x the size of a ISD. On the otherhand, just seeing the ship itself utterly destroy things is fantastic. I also have the correctly scaled size SSD that i mess around with as well. It gives me a good laugh when it constantly bashes into structures and asteroids.

Regarding the Death Star mesh n textures, if i come across one thats decent enough, ill let you know.

If I could get a properly textured Death Star mesh (preferably with nice alpha and specular channels in) I would gladly include this as a starbase mesh!

As for research trees, I've just released the 1.7 final release candidate for Requiem (it's on http://sins.imperial.cc in the Modders forum for download link). It includes some changes to the research trees (Tech Policy replaced by Vasari Oppression research, removed autocannon research, and replaced it with spread out laser research.

As for Mad Scientist mod... it would be near impossible to get this running with Requiem without major re-writes. Mods like Celestial Bodies only changes skyboxes, planets with minor research tree changes and hence it's not hard to get it working... Mad Scientist changes pretty much everything except for ships.

I might borrow some ideas at some point... there are some truly great concepts in Mad Scientist and other mods... but alas when you're balancing a full time job, girlfriend and an addiction to games and modding you can't do everything at once!

I'll start a new game with 1.7 as soon as I can.  I'm glad to see that you are changing the tech tree.  I'm glad to hear about the autocannon changes and more laser upgrade options.

ok i don't mean to be picky  but this bothers me (using v1.7). The tartan patrol craft (at least in Empire at War) is the empire's anti-fighter frigate, but here it is a scout.A suggestion is to bring back the corellian scout, use it as a scout, bring the corellian corvette back as the basic light frig and replace the lancer with the tartan. Second the Carrack gunship's along with the dreadnaught's engines don't seem to fit the starwars universe.

Im actually in the works of a merge of the two for personal use. Its taking awhile since it will be my first time i deeply work with the sins coding, although i do know the odds n ends of what i need to do, just my process is most likely not the most streamlined and effecient way. The process isnt difficult, just repetative and time consuming.

I assure you, the lancer is the Empire's anti starfighter ship. I was outraged that empire at war created new ships (Tartan, Assault Frigate Mrk. II etc.) when their were ships from the books, other video games, and even movies that could fit the role just fine! Also we were trying to reduce the number of meshes used by both Empire and Rebels (as when they are introduced they will use corellion gunships as scouts).

And what exactly is wrong with the engines?

Yup, you're right. Need to delete the second instance of the research.. for some reason it never occoured to me that Tech and Vasari would have their planet acccess research in different sections!

On the beta site I'll provide a fix for it (just needs one small file replaced).

amazing work, who did the ships then Jason? If you arent an artist someone was. WoW I still havent played the Mod, but I installed it, works perfect, I wanted to see the graphics in game. Afterwards went back to my solo game, still learning to play. I thought it best to learn the basics of winning a regular game before playing a Mod.I'm sure all of you would agree. lol

Meh I will be a good guy in the game.

As far as premier anti-fighter ships, the Lancer is the ship to use.  The lancer was the only ship specifically built to repel starfighter attacks and put fear into a lot of rebel pilots.  Those two facts are established in star wars background. The Nebulon B frigate was meant for escort duty, yes, but meant to rebel small warships like corellian corvettes and pirates.  The Tartan, while more visible since it was in EAW, was outdated by the time the Nebulon B and Lancer came around.  The Lancer was half the size with the same weapons load out, just slower and less agile.

Yes Jason, I joined your website, I have the current version up now, I'm finding the Mods on Wincustomize sloooow site (no offense you guys do a great job to many fans lol) then I discover they are hosted else where, trust me my download service is on top as best we can on all of our files. We test them out too make sure they are Mod Friendly.

I have no such limit I lease my server and it will grow over time. This simply gives you another place for a mirror to your Mod. In case the day comes, your site limit is reached, or whatever. You and all Mod designers deserve a place that doesn't charge, treats you and your work with respect, not trying to make money off it etc.

I will keep your Mod and all Mod up to date best I can. If some of you used my services it be far easier. We will be increasing size of storage, speeds, all for free. This is my hobby keep me busy, I am out of work living on SSI due to health issues, this is all I do. No ego boost, no money but doing it the right way, selling games, products that users always need, we get a slight commission, I also make money hosting website, leasing game servers etc.

You need to wander back to my site, I updated your Mod a while back. I will poke around through the forums once I get all the Mods downloads off Wincustomize, to find updates or other Mods using other pay services. I mean, we all upload to these services allowing them to make money off our free mods, patches, even demos. (sorry my latest rants are about these download services that suck majorly.

Keep on with the excellent modding, can't wait to learn the game well enought to dive into your Mod.

Regards,

~Kitsune @ Game Fanatics Vault

Which reminds me, I need to release a mod update to allow Celestial to run with Requiem v1.7

Sounds good Kitsune.. hosting services make a big difference to mod enjoyment and luckily I have access to a good hosting service (Bluehost for those interested).

In the meantime, I'm working with Warmaster and Goafan77 on the final touches in the closed beta of Requiem 2, which includes the Alliance side fully balanced against Empire and other existing races. I'm aiming to release the open beta on the weekend.

and therefore the millenium falcon being the example shows that engines do not have to be circular, many EU ships do not have circular engines and to say it is 'un star wars' is basically showing that you either have a strict definition of what is really star wars (the movies, which btw is a perfectly acceptable viewpoint) or that you have had very limited exposure to the EU.

For the nerds, here is the Google docs spreadsheet showing the rebalancing data. If anyone wants a copy with formula visibility drop me a tell.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rCfJUa-Spr1zFI_qPSSu1-g&hl=en