Koobalt - could this texture be used (belongs to ZombieRus5).. Would need to add some purple lights to it though, as per G_Bison's pic above...

Well... I think ZombieRus5 has some great ones that I thought could have translated over... and no, I have no idea how textures work.

Not that it matter, but another one that I did like the look of for the Cylon Colony was a plague hangar defence? (looked more like a starbase...)

Well in case of my colony the model and uv is done in way that there is only 7 flat object to texture, once i complete the G'Karith for B5 mod, i will give a try to the colony texture...

ZombiesRus5 if you have some time, could you check the colony model, and perhaps start hardpointing it?? 

This is my tentative review for the Colonial faction:

Let me just start this off by saying this is the best BSG mod I've ever played. I don't mean this as a stab towards other mods, I just think ZombiesRus got the feel for BSG down very well.

I think the way you handled flak is ingenius, but not seeing a particle effect does make me a little sad (though, honestly, it would be hard to come up with one that looked right all the time).

I think combat flows very well. Ships pretty well do what you expect and battles are relatively quick and decisive, like they should be. There can also be situations where a small number of heavier ships can be in engagements for some time duking it out, which is just great. If I end up in an engagement that I decide I may not have the numbers to win, they usually last long enough for me to be able to bring reinforcements from a local point or retreat and rearm.

I know that most Sins players play on large multi-star maps that take hours or days to complete, I don't so my perspective may be somewhat useful for proper balancing. I usually play on small to lower medium sized maps with either 1 to 3 stars. I play relatively fast games that last only a few hours.

For my play style there are a few issues that come up. Namely, I'm constantly cash strapped. I play against hard or unfair AI and, as I understand it, the way Sins makes them harder is by giving them more money and resources than they would naturally accrue. Trying to keep up with their pace in fleet size is very daunting. Ships are both expensive in supply AND resources. In fact, I think this is probably the most expensive fleet per ship in any mod for SOASE that I've played.

I often find myself pushed against a wall for long times while I manage to put out just enough ships to keep the AI from totally overrunning me, but I'm still losing ground or in a stalemate. I could counter this by just getting the Nova capital from the start, but it's so much more powerful than the other ships I feel it's a cheap tactic. I think the Nova should require research to unlock. Eventually I'll scrounge enough cash together to get my trade economy going and resource upgrades, but I often can't afford to upgrade my fleet supply AND keep pushing ships out to keep from being overrun.

I like that the mod makes every ship count in such a large way, but it's very hard to get a decent fleet together in shorter games. My suggestion for correcting this is to make ships marginally cheaper. Keep the supply at a similar level for most ships, but make them cost a little less so reinforcements are easier to come by. The only supply changes I would suggest are for the Nova to increase to 60 and for the Berzerk and the planetary bombardment ship to both cost less supply. They are relatively frail ships and have very locked-in roles so I often don't have the supply room for them at this point when I can add another Gunstar or Asgard for just a little more supply.

Now that I've gotten gameplay out of the way, I have a few aesthetic suggestions as well.
BailKnight's missiles aren't very pretty. I would suggest trading his missile effects out for those in the TotalEffects mod. I'm 95% sure that KrdaxDrkrun would have no problem giving you permission to use it. He was more than happy to allow us over at Sins of the Prophets to use them and we had no prior working experience together. When you start getting a number of missile using ships into the same area it gets very..."unpretty".

I also saw that you've mentioned previously that you're shooting for this mod to be from the reimagined series, but you're using ships from the old series. A number of people online have "reimagined" most of those ships and made them fit pretty well within the newer universe. You may want to look into replacing the flying boxes with something more like Ice-Dragon's work (googling "Ice Dragon BSG" finds his work immediately).

Sorry for the novel of a comment, BSG is one of my all-time favorite shows so I feel pretty passionately about it. Regardless, this mod is shaping up to be pretty amazing

Ya, you caught me... I just couldn't see adding another fighter class that does the same thing as the first. The damage types on the MkII were switched up to see how it would behave. 

If the MkII is only wanted for visual gravy that's fine and I might consider it. It just seems a waste to have another strikecraft that does the same thing as an existing unit.

I'm confused, who are set up how? Also, how does mitigation work for the Colonials?

you mean the file where there are 2 variation of colony with the same arms and the second with 2 bigger than the rest ?? I can uv them.

edit: here you have colony with uv map (all arms the same)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/a5c5d47igf54552/Colony.7z

And this i think as starbase for cylon and Boomer class as Tytan for rebelion.  

Well i love the idea about both as Titans, and here my little battle, of course i won this battle with only one cap ship lost  

Sounds fun... I did nerf the plague frigates some with R5.1 to help a little as they were a tad over the top. I decided not to mess with the colonials yet.

It's their specular and reflective channels. I have a modification from Koobalt I didn't have a chance to get in but I'll look at darkening these channels a lot and see if that resolves the issue (which it should).

I have some other various bugs I've found too, so I'll try and get this into R5.1b so keep checking back.

The AI loves to build Plague capital ships for some reason.

And their frigate fleets are crazy strong. Hopefully some of the nerfs I put in the last build will make them more beatable end game.

BTW what difficulty where they?

Just messing around with some organic textures. This is a render and not in game.

Well i think colony looks really cool with that texture, as for Boomer class i prefer more my clear white, but since you explain to me how to make my own dds it's not problem for me i can always adjust my local version