Well, he's right. There is no Imperator class, as far as I know. Everywhere it is the Imperial class of Star Destroyers. And by everywhere I mean every Star Wars Expanded Universe novel I have ever read, which is about 90% of all of them, so I have a crap load of space in my brain taken up by this stuff that could be used for something useful like anything else besides science fiction minutiae. Trust me. It's the Imperial class.

The Imperator-I was the first type of ISD brought in to replace the venators (Course then again, technicly the VSD did that but oh well) The Imperator-II was an upgrade of the Imperator-I, which sported more powerfull shields, stronger big guns (The four guns on each side of the command tower) and a few more guns overall. The visual changes were nonexistant.

P.S. They are also called Imperial-I and Imperial-II Star Destroyers.

I'll make the change for the Imperial II I don't see any reason why not to and honestly couldn't find an official way of justifying it.

When will the mod be launched? will there be a beta

Imperator or Imperial
Venerator or Venerial
Whatever! we all know which ships we have in mind. Arguing on few letters make me feel that I'm in some kind of SW or ST nerds meeting (you know the ppl who dress like vulcans or Jedi Knights, ppl who should grown up but they didn't)

wheres the link

Not to be rude or anything, but come on; copywrite issues?

Are you going to give 100% credit to ILA for the models and everything for the mod? It's not like I'm suggesting you not give credit to John Williams.

Practically any book, movie, or show based mod could be copyright-infringing.

Exactly. Using original soundtrack in a mod would be like bootlegging the said soundtrack on a torrent or somesuch. I'm sure someone would object.
It is possible to make your own "Star Wars" music though - look at First Strike mod. Their composer did an ok job.

And if you happen to have Star Wars soundtracks, it is easy enough to mod them into the game yourself. A matter of converting some files (I recommend a program called "Audacity" for converting into .ogg format, it's free and pretty simple to use) and editing the SoundMusic.sounddata file. As long as you keep it to yourself, its perfectly legal.

Hey this probably isnt the proper forum to ask but evil I uploaded your initial release and I put it in the mods folder but it doesnt show up and yes its windows xp. But yes if anyone not just evil has a way to fix this just speak up.

mistake post

Having played around with this mod, it occurs to me that we now know what the Vasari are running from...hehe.

most of the range and visibility problems are fixed so it shouldn't be a problem. If you want more epic battles you can move the ships closer manually, there is a risk and a benefit to this, you get to use more weapons and abilities, but so does your opponent (ISD main guns are for stand off attacks and long range, there are a lot more guns that open up at medium range) the problem is that sins does not have a real accuracy system, so at long range you don't miss, you simply ratio the damage (this may seem like the same thing mathematically, but when combined with the shield regen and the damage accumulation model iron clad did it makes it a huge pain because it is time dependent when the damage is applied. Add to this that the damage modelling is all or nothing, you get almost all guns on each target rather than a spread to multiple, and an ISD will cream most smaller ships in one hit)




length != volume, the ships have 20x hull because their hull volume is much larger, an ISD is around 110 million M^3, a dreadnaught is 10 million M^3 (not to mention that an ISD reactor is 10M m^3 and a dreads is at best 1M m^3)

now you have to take into account that ISD armor is around 10 m thick and a dread is probably 5 m so you don't exactly scale the hull with volume, it is scaled then re-ratioed

with shields the canon explanation is that thermal dissipation is directly related to hull surface area given over to neutrino radiators, so you can roughly scale shield strength with surface area of the bulk areas of the ship. The shield generators are also rated to some max kinetic impact so large guns will inevitably be able to damage the generators (and I'd hope ISDs don't use the same size generator components dreadnaughts do!)

effectively a large % of an ISD is given over to things other than generation, ships such as the carrack, dreadnaught and even the mon cals have MUCH higher generation ratios to volume giving them more firepower capability per volume, but not more firepower.

in this regard you get a dreadnaught being about 1/13 th of an ISD offensively (you can argue as high as 1/8th). My opinion is that Bel iblis forces, the only canon description of dreadnaught performance to ISD, had superior training and tactics and were able to significantly scare the ISD captain with their 6 dreadnaughts into retreating because of the offensive threat they presented. In a protracted battle the dreadnaughts would lose because they would die heat death and would be unable to take many hits from an ISDs massive main batteries before their shields would blow out. They would have to maneuver constantly into blind spots rotating vessels to recharge shields.