Class I (Cruisers and below) drydock: (Unchanged; use current scaling)

Class II (Heavy cruisers and capitals) drydock: 1.25-1.5x Class I drydock

Class III (Supercapitals/S-DNs) drydock: 2x Class I drydock

It's a matter of what sort of ships they build, and the sprawling, rather large nature of drydocks within even larger shipyards. Obviously, this doesn't include the smaller sorts that, according to sources like Wookieepedia or the Essential Guide to Warfare, that state that countless civilian, "Class 1B" and below facilities dot the galaxy. I figure this mod deals with larger operation, like that of Class 1A and 2, which can handle ships up to and including ISDs. So, may as well make them a bit larger, to reflect the following sorts of pictures:

http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120409213649/starwars/images/f/fe/Naval_Station_Validusia.jpg

http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080401203512/starwars/images/b/bb/Sluisvan_swkm.jpg

So yeah. That's pretty much it.

first of all, thank you for this great mod!

there might be a way to reduce some more used memory by optimizing the planets textures.

major stress did some stuff over there with his star trek mod, but honestly I didn't get it exactly.

just the part that he reduced the amount of memory needed for the texture but preserving the correct stretching of the texture.

I just checked the size of the planet texture included in SOAGE and SOA and yours are nearly double the size, but give some weird stretching at the poles of the planets.

I don't know if you already considered this to be included, but in my opinion every MB saved in RAM is a minute worth of gameplay damn those limitations.

cheers

I've been wondering if you take fanmade models (by that I mean fan of the mod, of course), because a few ones of those in the mod, like the Broadside... well, lets just say there is room for improvement .

I mean no offense to the modeller, but I tried my worst to make a prettier one, and this is what I got so far:

http://i.imgur.com/Fx0uDOc.png

http://i.imgur.com/pf5uho2.png

I hope you don't mind that I was a bit creative with the details, since the only material for reference is the ship from EaW.

So, how do you think about it?

I am pretty sure though that you haven't got the Mandalorians included. Now I did see someone get chastised for not reading the FAQ (which I can't find here either) on why no more factions would be included. However, if someone could take the time the time to chat with me about their love/hate/negligence of the Galaxy's finest I'd be awfully chuffed.

Cheers

also, slightly unrelated, but since we have a new republic faction, wouldn't it be fitting to have an imperial remnant faction as well?

Maybe also add in the Tector (which the Republic did have, although not until late) as IMO Tector + Venator would make for the single most terrifying 2 ship team since the Tector is so powerful and the Venator has such massive hangars.

been playing the crap out of this mod, and beta testing multiplayer.

one thing has come to mind as my awesome imperial fleets crush those rebel scum, i lack an imobilizer that can handle the late game. i was wondering if the dominator star destroyer is going to be added at some point?

cheers fenix

what do you think?

or just make it a option to change the skybox from the 1 you have now to the originals that came to the game.

Imperial:

Galaxy Gun.

Similar to the TEC Novalith. More powerful, however, but only one can be built. The damage is sufficient to kill any planet. Requires all tactical slots on a Terran planet. The pre-firing sequence is alerted on the map by about a minute. After effect is that it stops credits being earned at the planet and said planet from being recolonized.

Unable to move, only turn. No defensive weapons. Slow turning. Very long cooldown.

Yuuzhan Vong:

Yo'gand's Core.

Similar to the Vasari Loyalist's Titans planet sucker ability. Requires a ship to be built to transfer said cargo to the planet. Cargo ship is slow, bulky and lacks any offensive weapons. V. expensive. Activated by approaching an enemy planet, and activating ability. Countdown of about 2 minutes until the moon is plucked from the sky (cool if an effect could be made for it). Can't be stopped. Hence the requirement for the ship, and the weak ship. A small garrison could easily kill it.

The crashed moon cripples the planet, making it uncolonizeable for a long time (x3 of the Galaxy Gun.).

I was caught on which path to take next- so heres both.

1- A package of resources is delivered to the faction that used it. Req. that they have ships in orbit inside a window (about 5 frigates).

If they dont reach it in time, another faction in orbit (the most amount of ships) can get it. The attacking faction has an exclusive window to get it.

2- (alternatively) the crashed moon generates an additional 2-4 asteroids (more likely to be metal). Also, the terror effect means that if said planet is recolonized by another faction it suffers a weakness (opposite to cultural resistanve) to the attacking factions culture. If attacked again, the latest attack receives said bonus.

If the attacking faction recolonizes, the planet gets a major boost to its cultural resistance.

Nearby planets get the same thing, but in a far smaller amount.

Pick whichever seems the most balanced.

Republic;

Hammer.

Nothing extra-ordinary here. Massive battlestation- incapable of movement (potentially though if it is too weak in comparison)- of which only one can be constructed. Exceedingly expensive. Has the same upgrade style as a regular starbase- but comes equipped with 8 hangar slots, and massive amounts of weaponry. The planet where it is built is highlighted during construction. Doesn't take up tactical slots. Takes up three starbase slots however. Can manufacture Frigates, cruisers- and capital ships.

The balancing factors of this is simple- for being so large, it has a very slow repair rate. The shield mitigation is also low. It doesnt have a specific weakness for ranged weapons or numbers- but as a defensive weapon, of which only one can be made, i dont think it can be considered too OP. The range isnt great- cant cover more than a single phase lane effectively. No tractor beams that can be utilized on ships. Can draw in asteroids and fire them out from a cannon (this is canon) but the AM cost is so high its the entire reserves, and has a long charge up and cool down.

Tbh, that was one of like 2 Republic Superweapons on the wiki. Alternatively, you could include something more basic, like a massive trade station. No defences, but ridiculous credit making.

CIS:

Starkiller.

This destabilizes hyperspacing in ships.

In game, this translates to one facility- defenceless, cant move.

The effect can be one of two things:

A passive ability or an active ability: It has a 5-10% chance of destroying ships phase jumping in. 50% of ships will be sent off course to a planet within 2 phase jumps. The remainder will jump per-normal.

If it was passive, the values for destruction would be lowered.

If it was active, itd also supply phase jump detection directly to said planet.

And you couldn't construct it around a star.

New Republic:

Starlancer Project:

Only superweapon for them i could find.

Would be a small- very fragile- piece of equipment that can control several small enemy ships, or one large one.

Up to three can be built. All three are needed to control a Titan.

The structures can release a captive ship. When it is released, the damage of the ship is doubled- the enraged crew releasing they were tricked- and their shielding is increased (to stop them being released before death. Released ships are also immune to be controlled again for several minutes.

Destroying a Project, when all three are controlling a Titan, will return the Titan to your control.

The range is also moderate, so they are a very tactical weapon.

Only works within its own gravity well.

Couldnt find anything for the alliance.

Perhaps a giant Ion cannon? Stop anything in its track for a proportional amount of time. Like a structure version of the Malevolence cannon, except more powerful.

Again, only one can be built, cooldown is slow. Moderate AM cost. After the hammer, it has the best armour. Can take a few hits. Makes up for the lack of offensive power.

Hope these are balanced.

2: Allow for multiple golans around one planet, with rebellion tec for one can have 2 star bases. i dont know if this can be taken over 2 but even just 2 would be an improvement over the 1 we have now. (ideally i would like maybe 4 max) The problem with the one we have now is that it is just too weak to really defend anything as any cap ship compares with it. Also i suggest making some of the purchaseable abilities different from faction to faction.

3: Implement land based orbitol weaponry, there are several mods which has that done succesfully, and its sad that in sins planetbased stuff are completetely ignored but atleast we can have some stuff coming up from the planet. Examples are the empires hypervelocity gun or the ion cannon used by the rebels in the moovie and im sure laser batteries and missiles aswell. I think enhanced 4x mod for rebellion by goafan77 has some land based stuff.

4: I dont remember exactly what kind of new planet models were in the mod, but having some lush jungles and industrial planets etc make for greater variety and more fun. Easy to implement aswell.

5: The mod i mentioned in point 3, enhanced 4x also has another interesting thing, it allows you to hire "heroes". Im sure this is a controversial subject but personally i liked it alot. It worked the way that everyones home planet has an invulnerable structure that can summon 3 heroes, each have pre reqs that must first be researched. And then they level up like normal cap ships, but with entirely different abilities. Would be kinda cool to have some of the canonical personalities from star wars present.

6: Eclipse and executor as titans for their respective sides (if you even plan on implementing the two sides)

7: Instead of pirate ships bombarding your planets they can steal credits, same ships, same way of attacking just change the effect to leech money instead of dooing damage.

I see this as more realistic than indiscriminatly dropping nukes on the valuable goods.

8: i think the current system with constantly spamming figthers free of cost is somewhat sad. How abouth figthers/bombers actually costing money. Or maybe having some better versions like tie defender that you can purchase a squad off and that can hyperdrive on its own. Would fit in well with the star wars universe where figthers/bombers could do just that and were quite dangerous on their own if properly equipped.

1 Coruscant Republic,Empire,New republic

2 Yavin IV Alliance

3 Geonosis CIS

4 Mon Calamari New Republic

5 Zonamo Sekot Vong

6 Byss Empire

7 Kamino Republic

Please leave any feedback good or bad as I would like to improve the map further and get it as good as I can. Any suggestions are always welcome, and hopefully you will enjoy playing my map.

Download Available here:

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20617995/Star+Wars+Galaxy+Max.galaxy New Link

if the link goes down let me know and I will re upload it.

Screenshot here:

http://playstuff.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=539

Install instructions:

1>Download the map

2>Copy and Paste into (64bit system) > Username>AppData>Local>IroncladGames>Sins>ModsEntrenchement1.051>entrenchment>galaxy

3>Next you need to open your galaxy.manifest file in the entrenchment folder and add the following line to the page: fileName "Star Wars Galaxy Max" and also add 1 to the total at the top of the page.

OR instead of completing step 3 simply download this one here and replace it in your entrenchment folder listed in step 2. http://www.gamefront.com/files/20437502/galaxy.manifest

Hopefully this will help.

With five weapon slots, not only could one put in say, point defense lasers and ion cannons, but still have three slots left for different missile and turbolaser combinations. While this is clear cut for some ships (ex. Executor will get ion cannons and point-defense lasers), the question remains on what to do for some other ships, such as the ISD-II.

This thread is for people, including myself, to brainstorm and discuss possible weapon configurations for ships of all kinds, for when we make the port over to Rebellion.

1. The Death Star. This is a must for this mod, especially with Sins of a Galactic Empire's brilliant engine. Of course for warlords it wasn't feasable because you were only playing near one planet. But now you're playing with 20-40 planets. Destroying a planet with the Death Star would make a player's planet uninhabitable obviously and cause a tremendous blow to the opponent's economy especially if it was a highly productive planet. Maybe after you build the first one you can build the second one which would have the ability to fire on capital ships. This Death Star concept was a similar one in EAW except that EAW's galactic gameplay was turn based. And maybe the only way to destroy it would be to get some fighters near it. The fighters would have a chance of shooting a torpedo down the shaft destroying the space station.

2. This is more of a question but the planets and maps in the game are going to be Star Wars-ized right? So we'll fight for planets like Hoth and such and such?

So I know it probably has been talked about a thousand times but I guess I wasn't there and I thought I'd share my ideas for adding the Death Star as a late game super- starbase / super weapon ( a bit like the executor)

With around the same cost as the executor the death star would have the ablity to travel between system ( very, very slowly) and have super powerfull anti planet / structure weapons. It would have a large health pool, mediocre armor, and medium / mediocre anti-ship capabilities. It could be built using a 4 step tech process like the titans in vanilla rebellion.

It would allow an empire fleet to conquer worlds faster late game and.... Well..um its a death star so its amazingly cool.

Let me know what you think ?

Keep up the good work !

Other suggestions I'd like to make regard the planet development upgrades for some planets. I understand the rationale behind the decision for players to pay a cost to "maintain" a planet on a hostile environment. However given some maps like Systems at War/Fire and Ice, it would be nice to let players to be able to pay some amount of money to remove underdevelopment. It really cuts into your credits. In addition logistics slots on some of the planets are low, some planets do have tons of them, but I think the lower end should be given maybe 8 more slots or so.

Lastly, some of the normal sins maps don't work every well and I think it has something to do with the planet templates used. Now while I like making maps, sometimes I just want to play a premade map so maybe bring back some of the types of planet vanilla sins has so the vanilla maps work?

My suggestion would be to have a class of vessel that acts in the same way as the current colonisation ships but takes a lot longer. An invasion/assault class.

For the Empire it would obviously be a ground assault class although samller Star Destroyers were capable of landing so maybe add it as an ability to those ships too? All tactical built stuff is destroyed however.

CIS, again these guys are 'evil' so would go with assault and occupation, Driod Planetary assault ships or an ability added to their Big ships that carry all the droids.

Republic - less force more persuasion with these folks. Allow Jedi ships to convert populaces and give them a clone assault option from certain vessals, maybe the Victory SD's that could actually land on planets.

Alliance - Again these guys didn't really fight but more subvert systems. Not really played as these guys as I actually dislike the Alliance and Mon Cal's are just lame but woudl easily be possible to give them some sort of delegation ship or blockade runner and a 'Rebel Strike Force' or Freedom Fighter Landing Craft.

This would of course need to take a lot longer than a planetary bombardment but has the huge benefit that you don't have to rebuild from the ground up which makes little sense. The more advanced the planet the longer it takes to control this way giving its owner a chance to retaliate. Fluff wise it would be great to see fleets blockading planets while their teams take over on the ground.

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http://s49.photobucket.com/albums/f252/CanisD/Shipyard/Drawings/SW/SuperSDs.png

http://s49.photobucket.com/albums/f252/CanisD/Shipyard/Drawings/SW/Sovereign.png

http://s49.photobucket.com/albums/f252/CanisD/Shipyard/Drawings/SW/Eclipse.png

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