Truthfully I'm not a huge fan of insta-kill abilities either, however strikecraft mechanics in Sins are horrific, and anything other than insta-kill abilities mean anti-fighter frigates will suck as they will never be able to touch bomber swarms, let alone stop an alpha strike. It wasn't an "easy balance solution"; it was a tragic last resort.

Your numbers are nice and canon, but cannot be properly reflected in Sins' engine well I'm afraid.

We gave the AI a buff, though we're working on adjusting it to a more manageable level. Glad you've enjoying the mod so far however!

While this work is appreciated, the Extremely Reduced Weapon Ranges addon reduces all weapon ranges by 67.5%, effectively achieving the same effect. I'll change it to 70% for the next release.

Sins of a Galactic Empire is a total conversion; if you are going to play the mod, you must discard all prior notions and experiences of ship combat based off of vanilla Sins. If you assume, or expect, ship combat to resemble the base mechanics, than this is not the mod for you. If you want a Star Wars mod that keeps most of the Sins mechanics, Interregnum is a great choice. I'll address your points one by one.

Shields: With the notable exception of the Mon Calamari and Yuuzhan Vong ships, shield regen scales with ship strength. To give you an example, if you take an ISD and a Nebulon-B frigate at 0 shielding, it will take approximately the same time for both ships to regen to full shielding. I don't see why one would single out big ships in particular, with reference to this.

Large militias: There are certain planets, referred to as forts, which are extremely powerful planets, such as Coruscant and Kuat, which are game changers when built up. These planets have large militias as a necessity, however, there are the "No Fort" random maps which remove these planets from play, ensuring no overpowering militia fleets. Also 2-3 capital ships is not that big of a fleet on their own, even early game; you need to have a bunch of frigates to supplement your capital ships early game.

AA: In SoGE, anti-fighter frigates actually work. This is quite different from base Sins, where flak frigates are useless against fighters. Don't send out your fighters if they are in the area; either dispatch the anti-fighter frigates first, or send in a sacrificial wave to use up the flak burst(s) and hope the remaining starfighters/nearby ships can clear the anti-fighter ships fast enough.

Defenses: I've seen people use the basic turrets to take down Executors. Defenses, in the mid and late game, are generally not something that can stand on their own against a determined fleet. In SoGE you have to make clusters of defenses, with hangar defenses to ward off bombers (they have anti-fighter capabilities), a shield generator or two to make the planet invulnerable to bombardment or Auxiliary Government on some star bases, to force the enemy to engage you. With defenses you also have to consider which planets you are fortifying; a terrible desert world like Tatooine has few tactical slots and the few it has are expensive to purchase, while Fondor has a sea of tactical slots that can be purchased and for a reasonable price as well.

Capital ship levels: This is answered in the FAQ, so I'll grab the bit from there:

A number of "cruisers" were turned into "capital ships". This was primarily changed for reasons relating to how the AI handles things. Additionally, due to this, certain capital ships will not have any abilities that can be levelled up; this is intentional. If you want the full-length explanation: To start off, everyone is painfully aware of the AI's ineptitude when it comes to planet bombing. Whenever a frigate has planet bombing capabilities, it rushes to siege the planet, regardless of it's frigateRoleType (aka. what the AI uses the ship as). Capital ships do not have this problem. Further more, one can mess with the AI which results in them spamming capital ships, which SoGE has done.

Most of your points are valid with reference to vanilla, but SoGE is just such a different beast.

I understand that, however I don't see the mechanics of the mod being broken, most certainly not to the extent that you feel they are. You have not given good reasoning for why things are broken; your arguments come down to comparisons to vanilla Sins or personal opinions. Further, other than the capital ship levels and the large militias, you're the first person to take issue with the three other points in your post.

The Droid Control Signal is a unique command ability, and one that is particularly powerful. Adding levels to it would either make the ability too powerful, or nerf it due to being weaker initially; having it start at a fixed level is both a balance move and a nod to the canon usage of the ship.

You do not come off as rude, but it does not sound as if you have played SoGE for very long, and much less in a competitive PvP environment, which is where SoGE's balance shines.

Can confirm that's on your end; current version's explosions are all functioning correctly.

In which menu?

Problem is with the ship models, not the textures; the majority are rather unoptimized for Sins.

I downloaded this mod earlier this week and just wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying it.  I still obviously have a lot to explore but from the sound effects, to the music, to the visuals, this mod really captures the feel of the Star Wars universe.  Thank you guys for all of your hard work, this is truly a great game!

Can you post the map here or PM it to me? I'll take a look at it.

From the FAQ:

Q. Are there any specific settings I should/shouldn't use?
A. ...

Additionally, if you wish to use the Dev exe, make sure ShowErrors and LogOutput are set to FALSE in your settings file; SoGE does several things that, while work without issue ingame, cause the exe to throw many error messages.

Hi All,

I have a bit of a random one, I have only recently started playinh this Mod again after a bit of time out from Sins.  Ican't seem to make any headway against the AI, I have tried on Medium and Easy but after a few minutes the AI players suddenly gey 100000 credits and their credit income rates triple compared to mine.

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers

Slap this file into your GameInfo folder; it will make the AI easier, though no guarantee that it will be that much easier, due the unfortunate inability to make AI bonuses scale with difficulty, as GoaFan mentioned: http://www.mediafire.com/download/mhan4kz9wux6h1p/RESEARCH_FORCEAI_AID.entity

Had a crash about an hour into game..its late so I'll look into it further.

Did everything correctly I believe LAA and all that...

Might have to lower setting....

Works for me fine on Windows 10.