I think this one would get chocked up to a wish list request for Sins 2 whenever development on that starts. Unique markings for Capital Ships a.k.a. 'Hero Units'.

 Just for the record I am not advocating for 'hero' units at all ... it was a bad analogy. My apologies.

I think so... you might want to double check the returning armada ability to see if it has that section there. Even if it just says requiredShipCount 0 it should work.

Not exactly, but you can make an identical copy of one with just one line changed.. I believe the problem I had before with spawning the cosmetic titans came from this section in the titan entity.

Prerequisites
    NumResearchPrerequisites 1
    ResearchPrerequisite
        Subject "RESEARCHSUBJECT_TITANACCESS_TECHREBEL_1"
        Level 1
    RequiredFactionNameID "IDS_PLAYERFACTIONNAME_REBEL"
    RequiredCompletedResearchSubjects 0

The actual prereq doesn't matter but that required faction name is my best guess as to why spawning anything but the correct faction titan failed to work correctly. I believe if you changed it to another player type they could spawn that titan.

Edit: Though now that I look at it, I see titans and cosmetic titans are completely different entity types. Perhaps someone should try spawning a regular loyalist titan from the Rebels and see if it works.

Hey All,

I also have been playing around with this.  Since the titans each take 4 researches to build, you must have those researches unlocked in your tech tree in order to build them.

For example:

I have been able to give both TEC Titans to the Rebels, so you can choose which one you want to build, however once one is built, you cannot build the other design or another of the same until the first titan is destroyed.  To make things worse, you must have the research for BOTH titans with your tech tree in order to build the titans, unless you of course mod the research files and the titans entity so that both your titans actually just use the same researches, which is also easily done.  However, once you have the research unlocked, you will then have your pick of building your choice of a fully functional titan, so long as you are happy with only one!

I do hope they allow us to mod the limit, as only having one titan in a multiple star map is a bit....limiting.

DANMAN

GoaFan77,

I was trying to explain the crashes, my mistake for not being clear. Sorry about that.  Yeah, I read the thread.  Just trying to add my constructive 2 cents in.  Keep up the great work everyone

BTW GoaFan77, I love that avatar pic...

DANMAN

With the recent updates has anyone been able to figure out a way to create multiple titans without using abilities? IE building them like the first titan from the shipyard?

2 abilities on titan foundry.  1 additional research linked to last titan research with 2 levels.  Cost on abilities, who knows.  You research and build your 1 legitimate titan.  Research additional item and Ability-T2 can spawn a titan for X amount.  Research addition item to second level and Ability-T3 can spawn a titan for Y amount. 

3 titans -or more.

I've lost you at some point here.
Where does this ability appear?

Is there a way to use this ability at a resource cost?
or from what you've pasted here, I am gathering the ability that just continues to constantly spawn titans in 5 second intervals?
How can we use this in a more, structured manner?

Sorry, am new to the modding stuff.
I don't know how to give units/planets/factories abilities like this.
So will have to fiddle with what you've provided to try to make it work.

Thanks for the reply though, really appreciate it.

In theory it doesn't sound too complicated, but my problem is having the time to learn and figure it out.
Working full time and having a family makes this stuff hard. I've already made a small mod for use with friends to remove the need to research supply and capital ship population caps (and increasing them), and increases the module capacity on planets, but that was just modifying existing content, not creating new files or code.

i can make the game nothing but capital ships and if freaking awesome but it makes the titan less of a factor in offensive and defensive battles...... i can make my titan over powered but it dosent keep a good balance in combat and the AI acts like a retard some times

So, reading this thread.. 5 years late. i was wondering what mod you implemented this into.... and wheather they could be produced from a titan factory, as if they were capitals. No nerfs or anything but with a limit of 3 or 4.

Personally, i think that if you implemented them as capitals, instead of as titans, the bot may be more likely to use them,  or multiple of them for that matter, however im not really to sure of it, as im quite limited in my rebellion coding skills. i've yet to find an actual program that will read the rebellion entitys, i used to use noteplad++ but it gives me gibberish now.

Any ideas as to weather this could be done?