anyone up for an expansion?

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love the game, i really do.

 

but the lack of choice in most units sucks. its all spam 2-3 diff types of units (now light carriers).

 

Im drawing up a mod... no an unofficial expansion.

This expansion i want to correspond kinda to the entrenchment add-on they are doing.

1. new ships, frigs cruisers capitals and im adding super capitals (one per player max). thinking of 2 per race so you have a choice.but more ships! how about a cruiser loaded with long range phase batteries? or proper battlecruiser classing with 4-5 battlecruisers. fast hard hitting low hp/regen. improved anti fighter/bomber ships (cruiser sized support vessel). give the player who built eco and research a little bigger toy :)

2. some new research tech. these will benefit the new ships mostly.

3. some new structures. im not 100% sure on what the new entrenchment update will bring. but i want to add support structures with dual abilities. like ships that cant move. like a anti siege tower that can disable its weapons to repair itself, these would be very slot intensive but provide a hard hitting defense. limited range so placement would be key. thinking like vasari would have planetary shields, vasrasi the dread tower, tec an ewar type tower that disables up to 5 ships per tower untill they or the tower are killed.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

You might want to start a microsoft word page and make a list of every ship/structure you plan on modifing or creating, adding under each name the amount of hull/shield points you want it to have, abilities...

Personnaly, It'll help a lot when you get down to codding PLUS it gives an incredibly strong overview of the general layout of your mod and fleet composition (easily decide what needs to be tweaked, added,etc. without having to open the game)!

Hope it helped!

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

ohhhhhh! ok..

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Mothership-56

I agree 100%. I decided the other day to dl the xsi mod tool just to do the same general thing. I understand why IC has not done it. Game balancing seems to be a bitch between races. I'm very interested in how entrenchment will affect balance. Can't wait on the beta.