Lol wasnt asking for a real name just something to call you other than Soase-Maelstrom lol but i gues MrM will do and nothing wrong with taking credit for work or atleast having a online name. Zombierus lol that is your name dont lie

That kinda sucks about the pirates being hard coded. I am confused about your statement that they have another base i wiped out all the planets in that star system there were none left all in my possession and the pirates were still functioning showing as undefeated so that would mean only one logical thing that they can indeed travel through wormholes. This was the map called labrynth. Well there is one other possiblity that there was 2 pirate bases and it doesnt count them as defeated till you kill them off in both star systems.

My thoughts with the Cators is i notice in most games the AI tends to research alot slower than the human players often not completing its research tree. From my experience playing the cators the key to them is their incredibly fast research capabilities but it seems this is more in focusing on the key aspects of research speed and progress. i would guess the AI doesnt know this and doesnt research according to this key strength in the cators hence not giving them the strength to become a power in the galaxy. Maybe if the way the AI researches can be controlled as what you research and when research is as much a key to strategy as anything that you can devise a way to make the cators swarm like cators should. dunno just a suggestion, all i can think of.

I like Mr M.

Sound right.

There are enough Research Centers and Complexes that are scattered in the research tree to impact a blind man - and thus help with research speed and cost. I was thinking that not having tradeports and refineries might confuse the Rep AI.

There are priorities you can assign to research items - which I think I have set and am not sure that work.

Yes it does but the AI seems to be oblivious to this ... hence the Reps don't take off.

Yes, but it is an ability, they don't have tradeport or refinery structures, also they don't have  tradeships or refinery ships ... hence this might confuse the AI.

speaking of which I was recently watching Quantum of Solace, I really like the opening car chase scene!

There will be three versions of Maelstrom for R3 and beyond O, E & D. They will all have Dreads.

The Beta, which I'm currently uploading, is for E.

Which JB was the best? Liked them all for different reasons. What I'm disappointed with is that after 24 movies how much character development has there been for Bond?

Everyone gets a Dread, share the joy! New Dread models for Tec, Advent & Vasari.

I do not think the AI considers the function of any building. In the game constants there are preferences for building class the AI simply uses to build a random building of this class.

e.g. for researcher AI:

        table-Research
            BuildShip 5
            BuildModuleTactical 2
            BuildModuleCivilian 2
            BuildModuleResearch 2
            UpgradeResearch 5
            UpgradePlanetArtifactLevel 2
            UpgradePlanetPopulation 1
            UpgradePlanetInfastructure 2
            MaxBountyBidCount 10

Looking through the table there is no one fitting the Cators. Population is rated very low everywhere other than Economic and there research is rated low. There is also no pure "Trade" AI and overall I think Ships and artifacts are rated too high. That's why the AI has problems to keep up with human player mid game, to much resources going into ships and artefact's. It might be worth to go through the tables and re balance the values and see what happens.

What I wonder is if trade bonuses impact Cators?

Is the Alliance SB supposed to move? I noticed the move icon for the first time yesterday, pressed on it and got the SB to move a little way then it stopped. Since then I can not get ANY SB to move again.

I have just downloaded and loaded and expected just an interesting new take on a mod. What i found instead was a seeming WONDER!!   You have moving planets, moving rings around some of the suns!  You have really really really done a fantastic job here!!!

I would vote MOD of the Year for you and your Team, it is a phenomenal effort and a beautiful piece of work!!

I haven't yet dived in to play yet, but wanted to tell you that it is FANTASTIC WORK!!!

Thank you for all the hard work, and ingenious effort and the results are stunning!!

-Teal

I'm glad you have been pleasantly surprised.

Hope to get feedback when you have played some more ...

please dont make roids do damage that would be terrible and if you are going to make them do damage, you should consider that a ship could either avoid and astroid and or fend it off with shields, also roids dont have a mind of thier own like these do. These roids attack your ship while ignoring the other ships. if they are going to start doing damage its only fair if they hit all ships in the gwell randomly. Simply a fact if your ships have trouble in a grav well with roids so should anyone elses, including pirates. I agree people would get roid panic i do like a challenge but im not masocistic like shinkle

And as for flak defense doesnt each race have  ship specialized for this role? why not just use more of those instead of requiring a cap ship to have flak defense. Infact i think only 1 ship has that in the TEC if im not mistaken.

"has this mod and the fallen mod ever considered teaming up and have 6 news races into the sins game? would be awesome to see"

Good idea.

However I would like to complete this mod to my own satisfaction.

Release 3:

    1. Add Dreadnoughts to all versions of the mod.

    2. Add Antimodule Cruisers for the Norlamins and Replicators,

    3. Update all Orbital structures for the new players,

    4. Rework some Planets

    5. Balancing and so on.

Release 4:

    1. Rework TA ships.

    2. New Replicator and Norlamin fleet.

    3. Effects.

    4. Balancing.

Yes, merging mods does seem cool... But I will agree with Maelstrom I need to finish mine first before anything like this is considered. Not to mention I know from previous posts Maelstrom is reaching many of the limits with Sins making it difficult to add new content. I have been able to stack with graphic mods like SinsPlus, but ones that already add additional races make it much more difficult.

I appreciate the mention though in association with his mod. Hopefully I've been able to help in little ways around the forums.

Well if the roids did damage then why would you need militia ships? The roids being all out attack ships that attack any and all ships randomly would be a militia in themselves and act more like riods. IF you are going to make them do more than just bump you around. Im on the fence about the roids but TBH overall they are such a minor thing in the mod that they don't effect the game play really at this time. But thats just my opinion others may feel the roids do effect it largely I tend to just ignore them and kill the militia ships and then come back later and use them for XP for cap ships that i cant purchase levels for.. or use planetary defenses on. As you have made random militia ships return at random rates its kind of a must to defend all your planets as you never know when they will return.