I would say that a great deal of the gameplay isssues (particularly the abortions that some dare to call ground battles :-\) could be solved by allowing capital ships to carry ground units, a la Rebellion. I mean, it's really not that complicated of an issue to program, is it Petroglyph?? If some buggy, 1997 game can have that feature, why are we stuck with infinately-spawning garrison buildings and being forced to put our excess ground units in orbit, directly in the line of fire of an invading fleet??

 

Sorry, just had to get that out.

 

Anyway, yeah. Modding. Could it be done so that bigger ships like Star Destroyers could carry ground forces themselves? I mean, it already somewhat represents this with heroes and fleet commanders, although you can't choose which ship they go on...they tend to all crowd together on the same ship. >

 

Could this be done with regular ground units? And more importantly, could you choose which ship they would go on? By setting limits on unit-carrying capacity (ISDs could be modded to carry 6 units max, for example), we could solve a great deal of this game's woes.

I am not sure if it can be done but another cool idea would be to allow ground troops in orbit to board enemy ships and use them against him. Chewe has the ability to take over land vehicles so it could be done, if we had the mod tools.  LOL Bush is a monkey. 

I would say that a great deal of the gameplay isssues (particularly the abortions that some dare to call ground battles :-\) could be solved by allowing capital ships to carry ground units, a la Rebellion. I mean, it's really not that complicated of an issue to program, is it Petroglyph?? If some buggy, 1997 game can have that feature, why are we stuck with infinately-spawning garrison buildings and being forced to put our excess ground units in orbit, directly in the line of fire of an invading fleet??

 

Sorry, just had to get that out.

 

Anyway, yeah. Modding. Could it be done so that bigger ships like Star Destroyers could carry ground forces themselves? I mean, it already somewhat represents this with heroes and fleet commanders, although you can't choose which ship they go on...they tend to all crowd together on the same ship. >

 

Could this be done with regular ground units? And more importantly, could you choose which ship they would go on? By setting limits on unit-carrying capacity (ISDs could be modded to carry 6 units max, for example), we could solve a great deal of this game's woes.

 

It has to be possible. Mon Mothma can be put aboard the most powerful ship in the fleet when caught in a space battle then its defiantely possible.