Ok. What should the resurrection hub be used for then?

Indeed... I'm looking at all your posts though. I have an important deadline due this week which means practically zero modding at the moment

So I'm assuming that Kyogre12 must have got permission to use colonial sounds?

Unfortunately I don't have the necessary equipment to record high quality voices.

Stalcore - are you saying that you have a problem with the resurrection hub as a superweapon, or that it should still be a super weapon but just not as powerful? I agree regarding the resurrection of one capital ship, but this would make the resurrection hub structure pretty useless woudn't it? Wouldn't it need to do something else?

Here's an idea for the Ressie Hub to balance it out early and make it strong late (while fixing the fact they can't build another).

Make it built by a constructor ship that spawns at the start of the game. You cannot build another of these ships but you will be able to move it around so as to choose where to place the hub. However, even after building it the structure does nothing until many tiers of research where you will unlock its ability to do whatever (that will be up to you guys).

Does that make sense? 

I think the series was good and all but it's much too linear for what Sins has to offer.

I've already diverged from the series just by having the organic cylons fighting the full strength colonials so pure story line cannon is out the window.

The question really is could the Cylon's gain the knowledge to build the Resurrection Hub eventually?

I'd say the answer is probably yes at this point.

Should Cylons start with a working resurrection hub?

Possibly. I like this part of the story line.

Can Cylons research the ability to build more resurrection hubs?

Sure... The amount of time that passes in a Sins game is relative. It could be 1 year, 10 years or hundreds of years IMO based on the view point of the person playing the game. It only seems natural as the Cylons progress they gain access to more advanced structures.

What will the resurrection hub do?

Well, this is where we must blend the BSG universe with the Sins universe. The ability to resurrect lost experience is a Sins function that can be used to simulate downloading a Hybrid's knowledge into a new Hybrid shell. 

One thing that is important to me is the AI is able to successfully use resurrection. I have an idea on how to make this work for the AI taking advantage of how Abilities and Buffs work so the AI won't target Capitals that have previously been Resurrected.

I'm not real keen on using the Armada ability to spawn ships at enemy planets. It just seems a bit to contrived for my tastes.

How will Resurrection Ships tie in With Resurrection Hubs?

Not really sure whats fully possible here yet. But it may be possible to link a Resurrection Ship with a Hub somehow allowing remote resurrection to only occur while the linked Hub is alive. If it's not possible then ultimate ability may just be standard resurrection.

The Resurrection Ship itself should have abilities that boost the Cylon fleet's performance in addition to the colonize ability. For example: increasing strikecraft dps could be an option as the cylons get fidgety if they think they are out of range of resurrection. Maybe resurrect strikecraft as the AM required ability.

Is the Resurrection Hub a Super Weapon or Star Base?

It really could be either at this point now that the AI builds Super Weapons. There are also advantages and disadvantages to both approaches so I may try them both out to see which I like more.

The easier implementation is as a Super Weapon so I'll probably start with that approach first.

I'm leaning towards star base though as I just don't see the Resurrection Hub as a super weapon in terms of remote planet targetting that the AI would use to any real benefit.

Awesome stuff ZombieRus5. Especially the  part where the resurrection ships are linked to the hub.

Just wondering... Does Sins allow us to build multiple versions of Star bases i.e. we already have the Warstar as the star base.

If the Resurrection Hub becomes a star base, what will the Cylon super weapon be?

Indeed...

Example from my main mod.

	starBaseInfo
		count 10
		entityDefName "StarBaseArtifact"
		entityDefName "StarBaseHypPsiOps"
		entityDefName "MoonBaseDesert"
		entityDefName "MoonBaseIce"
		entityDefName "MoonBaseLuna"
		entityDefName "MoonBaseSedna"
		entityDefName "MoonBaseTerran"
		entityDefName "MoonBaseToxic"
		entityDefName "MoonBaseVolcanic"
		entityDefName "StarBaseHyp"

I don't really care for super weapons personally. It may be nothing if they get a second star base option.

Personally I've thought of removing super weapons from the game and replacing them with starbase versions of the same things.

I like that idea Zombie. Makes more sense to have the hub as a Starbase.

So say We all

This is a R5.4 compatibility release for the most part.

Here's the blood and chrome download for R5.4 (Requires SotF R5.4 moddb release).

It does have a playable version of the cylons (i.e. selectable but really underdeveloped and basically crappy, Honestly I don't want to hear if you have any issues with them and will ignore them if you feel the need to tell me   ).

If you want the cylons as Militia (which are harder than hell) but not selectable then place SotF Race Cylon R5 after SotF Core R5. This will allow the militia to find the right game assets but will still keep them from being selected by Random AIs.

http://www.filefactory.com/file/cf2618f/n/SotF_Blood_and_Chrome_R5.4.7z

It's somewhat possible to setup this way. My only issue would be the AI stupidity and which most likely gladly fight in these wells even though a human never would. Other possibilities might be to cut hull regeneration or slightly decrease armor for organic ships. Something to consider.

Hey Koobalt - are you still working on the culture module for the Cylons? How about the civilian research station?

Yes, ideas like what was being posted is still cool.

I just don't want to hear about what's currently playable. It's just a template so far and nothing new has really been incorporated other than some of the meshes, textures and some weapons. I left it playable for those that want to mess around with it but It's pretty far removed from what I'm going to do so I just don't want any feedback on whats playable is all.

I'll start getting lots of time in December and January to start making improvements again including incorporating some of the newer meshes and textures as well as ability ideas.