We could use this info for an optional add on. The mass of each ship was pretty specific. Don't want to see the canon zealots crying heresy. I was never a big fan of big ass ships zooming around like fighters. Though the ship speeds themselves are pretty reasonable.
Hi Major Stress,
First of all you made really good work with your friends. I don't know if you would like some changes but
I would like to show you some modifications. Maybe you can use it as add on if you would like. I can send you these files which I changed with email. But I will not publish it.
Changes I made:
- I liked scaling down ships. This is really good idea. But movements should be also reduced. That is why I changed the movement of starships. For me it looks more realistic.
- Constitution class cannot be a capital ship, but I think you cannot take it also as scout. It was explorer/cruiser or some sides write even heavy cruiser. That is why I changed ships for Federation. You can fight with it like light frigate and I changed also research tree and made it possible to refit the constitution class. This was the first ship which got any refits. Envoy - Oberth class I gave instead the ability to exlore and also some small change in research tree diplomacy it can get the ability to steal crystal.Constitution class got also the abilility to repair.
- Defiant was a small ship. 120 meters only. http://www.ufstarfleet.org/wiki/index.php?title=Defiant_Class_Starship
It was built to fight borg but I think it is not strong enough to put it as capital ship. That is why I changed defiant with Akira class. Akira was a heavy cruiser also nice to fight borg. It was also one of the bigger ships. I gave Akira class the ability AbilityBorgCounterAssault. When you fight against borg you can even loose all your ships with assimilation. For keeping the balance a little I put this ability to capital ship. I made also a little change with abilities of capital ship federation that every unit will be usefull to be in fleet.
- I changed also the role of other ships. Excelsior as heavy cruiser, Intrepid as Antimodule, saber as longrange etc. For this I read much about Star Treck webside about the role of the ships. I also compared the mass, speed, weapons, shuttles and tried to make most realistic.
- pirates are a little useless in this mod. But NPC tries to spend alot of money to pirate acitivities. This make the game for players a little easier. Also to keep here the balance a little I made pirates again stronger. Gave them again the ability to steal resources and put more different kind of ships in raids. Sometimes you could only see scout ships. I also gave them the ability to colonize planets. But they are not able much to build big defences there. Anyway they can make a little more troubles.
It looks like this
http://youtu.be/nOPYJTy4s0A
If you want to give a try I can send you the files which I changed. If not I can keep it for myseld.
Thanks for this mod. It is the best for Rebellion.