I think i'll give you praise in the form of words my friend told me while we were playing an online match:

"Holy Sh** this mod is the BEST"
"SSD's FTW"

"the sheer awesome makes up for there being no starbases"

and i totally agree with him.

This mod is pretty darn awesome.  And I thought Requiem was impressive!

Curious, though?  Why are Rebel/CIS lasers orange rather than red?
Also, where do we report bugs?  I found several instances of "String Not Found".

Keep it up guys! 

red tends to not be as bright so it is red with a bright center making it look quite orange

Below hard AI does not handle unusual builds very well.  Normal handicaps itself too much and ends up getting out the gate too late.  The lack of a free flagship at the start takes it from passable at the early game, to horrible.  Hard cheats just enough to make up for sucking out on those early world conquests.  If you watch a team game, it becomes quite apparent that the inability to manage individual units is a major handicap up against a player with enough brain power to do simple things like send a heavily shielded unit into the well before the rest.  They often get their early units killed off before they manage to take a planet.  They don't usually lose much to roids, but the others occasionally cost them even the first capital.

They suck at defense too.  Might could jack up the priority levels on the AI definitions, it might hose their progress though.  I've added that to my list of things to mess with, but it takes a lot of play time so it will be a while before I do something stupid like suggest changing it.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away was the Republic.  This Republic was peaceful, until a group of thugs known by names as the Inter-Galactic Banking Clan, Trade Federation, and the TechnoUnion decided to found the Confederacy of Independent Systems and break away from the Republic.  This led to the Clone Wars.  After the Clone Wars, the Chancellor of the Republic, Palpatine, decided to re-establish the Republic as the Galactic Empire because he was a power-hungry Sith bastard.  Because the Empire was a repressive tyrranical regime, a Rebel Alliance soon grew up to overthrow it and restore a galactic republic to power.

Moguta, he didnt know originally. He did plan all of the clone wars and such, but when he found out about Anakin and how powerful he was with the force, he couldnt pass up the opportunity to taint him with the ways of the dark side. It was pretty much luck i think.

No, I got that part very much.  I just couldn't figure out a way to work it in my summary without it being a tangent.

First off I'd like to say that this is an excellent mod and clearly demosntrates untold hours of hard work on the part of those involved, so a big congrats to eville and others!

I played with the Empire a bit last night vs 3 locked team unfair AI's and have a few comment's regarding balance.

- Ion cannon tech is a bit overpowered. I liked the fact that you guys made lower level Ion cannons debuff to increase cool downs/decrease movement, but giving spammable heavy cruisers, ie ISD II's a spammable full stun is very unbalanced. With a bit of micro I was able to take out a large AI fleet by keeping their caps permenantly out of the fight. I think the original game was smart to give spammable stuns to only a very few cap ships.

-Perhaps give full stuns only to cap ships and make lower level stuns debuff at varying percentages?

- I know you mentioned this already,but strike craft are still very OP. Interceptors just massacre bombers way too quickly and gunboats do too much dmg to ships. Throwing up just one hanger in a gravity well with interceptors effectively negates an entire fleet worth of bombers. I think eville you might have upped dmg of Interceptors as a band aid fix to deal w/ bomber OPness? (cuz tie fighters comparatively really do suck vs bombers, and unless interceptors are around, bombers are very powerful)

- Missile Defense turrets. Massive range, high damage, and only cost 1 logistics slot. These are pretty much better than turbolaser batteries in every way, making those kinda useless really. Plop ~10 of these, a few hangers and repair bays in a gravity well and it's effectively untakeable.I think all defenses really needs to either have their dmg toned down, or logistical slot cost increased as it's currently very easy to defend. (well unless someone roll sin a SSD)

- Escort carriers and actually all cruisers outside the ISD's are kinda useless. Ex, an ISD is ~1.5x the cost of a escort carrier and have 2 squadrons and neglible weapons and no abilities. ISD's have 3 squads, do massive dmg and have abilities including a stun. Perhaps make more of a price difference btwn these ships to make the other cruisers actually worth buying.

-Executor class ships =D I love these things but they really are a game changer. I have a level 4 one take out an AI fleet of ~50 ships including ~15 heavy cruiser mon cal cruisers, and 2 level 5/9 cap ships. The worst part is that the AI fleet barely got through it's shields >.<

I think the shield strength ~8x a ISD is fine, but the hull, I got up to ~144,000 HP, which was frankly rediculous.

Left one is a gravity well where it took out a golan and AI fleet there all while being chain stunned, so it'd get of like ~2 seconds of fire btwn stuns. It won simply because of it's insane HP count and just slowly wittled everything down in btwn stuns.

So perhaps follow the ISD idea of shields being ~4x hull strength. So ~80,000 shields and 20,000 HP for the SSD?

On the damage front, I love how many lasers the thing shoots out, it looks awesome and exactly as I'd imagine it^^ Problem is that it's just too much dmg lol. Throw in the AOE dmg/mass stun ability at lvl 5 and a SSD with full complement of Interceptors to deal w/ bombers is effectively unstoppable. Reminds me of the Avatar class ships in 7DS mod. That thing is OP cuz it can take out an entire fleet in one shot. With a SSD any fleet is still doomed, just takes a little longer, but  is no less inevitable =D

I'd say keep the number of weapons, but cut their dmg in half. With this and the hp changes, they should still be very powerful, but not invincible. With it's current specs the executor by itself could have won the battle of Endor, no matter how incompetent their officers were^^

Currently, while they may cost the as much as ~10x ISD caps in terms of minerals and crystal, and 4x the credits, they're capable of taking on double that many ships (provided they don't have ion cannons =D).

I'll play with another race tonight and see how balance wise they feel and get back to you guys.

I know I made a lot of comments, but please don't take offense. They're merely balance suggestions and in no way am I critisizing the hard work you guys undoutebly put into this.

Thanks again for making this mod!

The cruiser variants of the ion weapons are not full disables.  The volley uses the same effect file, but it fires half the shots, at six targets instead of eight.  That's the level 1 version of the capital ability, not further upgrades.  Neither volley is a full disable, and the effects against capital ships are significantly reduced.  The blast is a partial disable only.  The capital version is a full disable of everything but normal engines, and cripples those as well while applying random movement.  I'm sure they need tweaking though, balance testing against the AI is horrible.  You'll never see it exploit anything, or defend against an exploit.

All sides have some method of disabling ships, so that Executor is if anything, dangerously easy to kill.  The ion weapons also stack, even the light versions can turn an Executor into a nerf toy if you target it with enough of them.  The AI sucketh though, so I don't expect it to do much.  Vanilla sins suffers the same problem really, a well designed Advent fleet consists of several flat invincible capital ships that need their supporting fleet completely exterminated before the AI has a shot at wiping them out, a process that requires a fleet multiple times your size, and a battle duration long enough to run them out of antimatter.  The Executor drops to quite a bit less, but in a fleet it's absolutely horrific.  I'm pretty sure the Executor could win the battle all by itself in the movie btw.  They weren't expecting to win a battle, they were hoping to blow up a Death Star and run like hell.   What do you think of All Out Attack?

Broadsides are a siege platform and cruiser killer, missile salvo does 4800 damage over four seconds time to a single target.  They're very much useful.  The escort carrier I'm a little more in agreement with you, but full squadrons on a cruiser is bloody nice.  They're exceptionally dangerous when defending gravity wells with shipyards.  It's less cheesy on the offense of course, but having rapidly repenished strike craft still makes them the best carrier by far.  The ISD's are rather all purpose though.  Then again, how often do you see other ships in the movies?  They do kinda build fleets of star destroyers, I think it's intentional that you can ignore the rest of the lineup for the most part.

The defense and strike craft balance definitely need work.  The defense being so tough is really nice, but the AI flat wont use it.  I'm trying to get the AI to cooperate there, but it's stubborn.

I can't wait to hear your commentary on the other super capitals, they're less obscene, but the Executor doesn't look that scary after you stack it against them either.

The volley abilities are not like missile barrage in vanilla, it has an 8 unit cap at level 1, so while powerful, it's not the titanic dooms day weapon missile barrage on the Marza is.

The SPHTA cannon is a collumn effect, so it's 2000 shield bypassing damage to the target and everything between it and you.  It's probably the most powerful damage effect outside of the super capitals.

Assuming you didn't know that, do they still seem problematic?

I've noticed an issue about the missile researches.  Only the Vulture Droid Fighter has missiles, the rest of the ships use phase missiles.  And since the missile researches affect missiles, not phase missiles, only the Vulture Droid benefits from those researches.

Hail Eville! I commend you on your finally making it to 1.0!!!!

the venator range is intended, it is basically an insta kill weapon for any cruiser (and anything around it) especially when leveled

the phase missile/missile will need to get worked out, a lot of the shield penetration tech relies on phasemissiles as the type, but that was changed in the last day or two before release so probalby need to go back and fix the research.