Hi Vegas_Celest,

Thanks for sharing your ideas.

Anti-module cruisers are excellent for taking down starbases. Strike craft (bombers) are excellent at taking down Titans.

Specialized ships for taking down a Titan would create a imbalance because they could ripe apart any other ship also ... specialized anti-titan and anti-starbase are not included with the AI

I wonder what the Replicator titan would look like now that it has to scale with the Rebellion titans.

Unless your scrapping the ones from Rebellion and just replacing them with the ones from this mod. Still wonder how replicators can rebel...

Perhaps one faction that wants to 'destroy all humans' versus one that wants to focus on replicating more? Military vs. Civilian tree basically.

Or one side has gone Borg and wants to enslave/cyborgize/something organic life instead of killing them. Just going by popular scifi, evil robot empires tend to either want wipe everyone out (Cylons, Daleks), or turn everyone into more of them (Borg, Cybermen).

Hi Azuvic,

Glad you are enjoying the mod. I am currently working on R9 for Maelstrom and then I'll start working on a Rebellion version.

With regards best mods for Sins ... my personal opinion is that there are many great mods for Sins, now and upcoming. I have enjoyed playing them, but for Maelstrom I'm afraid I've played/developed it for so long that I don't really enjoy it.

With regards balance ... I haven't been in to much of a hurry, with each iteration I do some balance changes relative to the original races. R9 will balance the new races closer still to the original races. Thanks XATHOS and GoaFan77 for the comments ... I agree.

I'll try to port one race at a time into Rebellion and see how it goes

I had to rebalance the Maelstrom races when I put them into my diplomacy compilation mod for my LAN group.  Having to balance the Original, Maelstrom, and Fallen races into a happy medium took some doing.  On top of that, just getting all the assets to work into into one mod and respecting the engine limits, was a nightmare.

Anyway, eschewing half of game's races isn't the way to go.  It'd be better to just scale them to the vanilla trends of power (along with tech revisions).

I assume it was not R8

I agree

R9 should be pretty close balance to the original races.

Yes, the models (Corvette, new cap, Titans) are not a problem

For those who are interested Release 9 is available

When will this be made Rebellion compliant?

I thought you didn't need to do any converting of models?  To my understanding, converting the meshes only required one line to be added.

You probably should have said that the Maelstrom factions aren't in the Rebellion release.  It is generally polite to let people know when a feature doesn't make it into the next version so they don't assume it is automatically in there.

Hey--regarding rebelling replicators.  A scientist developed little robots that behaved like bugs.  He programmed them to touch certain objects to obtain a "color" and to desire more colors with each one obtained.

The robots were made to have differing forms of locomotion and appendages but not programmed for anything else other than moving, obstacle recognition, etc.  One of the robot types after months of operation suddenly became a predator--recognizing other robots as obstacles to attaining more color and began to routinely attack them.

So there's a real life example.  Maybe some Replicators want to ascend.

Ooh--I just realized you are getting Rebellion here--yay!