This mod is a more in depth alteration to the races, placing more empathasis on fighter/bombers in the offense/defense roles and making things a bit more empowered while still keeping the core gameplay elements the same.
The changes are as follows: (inspired in part by some other mods I've seen around)
-Orbital Defense platforms: doubled the Hull points, range and damage for all of these, making them more effective for planetary defense. but still not the only thing you'd want standing between you and the enemy.
-Orbital Defense Hangars: increased capacity for orbital hangars to 6 for Tech and Vasari to 9 for Advent. This way you can more easily defend a planet with only one or two hangars as opposed to a half dozen.
Cruiser Carriers: Increased fighter/bomber capacity to 4. This makes them more viable to use when attacking a heavily defended planet since the planatary defense hangars have been increased, and makes having a few flak frigs part of your fleet much more useful.
Capital Ship Carriers: Increased fighter/bomber capacity to 3 initially + 1 per level. This makes them a serious force to be reckoned with at higher levels, and very useful when assaulting a planet with lots of defense hangars.
Pirate Attack Ratio: Slowed down their attacks to once every 30 minutes, giving you mroe breathing time between assaults.
Mission assignments from npcs: Doubled the time inbetween missions, making it take longer to increase loyalty and friendship, but also longer to lose it.
Capital Ship Colonize special ability: Reduced antimatter cost from 90 to 1, making it easier to colonize a planet after defeating the attacking forces.
Ship Training Research: Increased number of times you can research this from 1 to 3. Now after researching the max trainable level you can pay to train your ships up to level 6. Be forewarned however, the higher level a ship is, the more it costs to train the crew to the next experience level. (Around 4000cr from level 5 to level 6)
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