[General Woundwort]

Player feedback is starting to come in (and there was much rejoicing (yeaaaah, yeaaaaah)), and I wanted to address the issues up front. So...

From Tesco Samoa...
The Archon (Workhorse) requires only 25% fighter bays compared to the Archon's 50%, so why use the Archon?

I guess it's more of a tactical thing (how many Riders do you want to launch per turn?), that may not make that much difference. I'll bear it in mind for any future re-work.

Perhaps you could use some of the other NeoStandard images for the different highliner hulls... having them all Worldships could get confusing. Maybe the colonizers could be ColonyShipHuge and the transports could Barge (since there's no TransportHuge for some odd reason)... not sure about the Workhorses since I don't know what exactly they represent...

Good point. My biggest concern is that not all NeoStandard sets have all of the ship types. I was just trying to keep the mod as widely usable as possible. But I will bear this in mind.

Kinda odd that the starting bases are smaller than the starting highliners... surely if you can make a 1000kT starship then you can make at least a 1000kT base?

Yeah, that does sound kinda dumb, doesn't it? That's up on the Priority Fix list.

"Colonizer - Compatible" is misspelled

#2 on the Priority Fix list.

It wouldn't be considered cheating to put a compatible colony module on a Colonizer - Hostile in order to get extra space for cargo bays, supply storage, defenses, etc. would it?

I only call it "Colonizer - Hostile" because that's the minimum shipsize needed to carry a hostile environment (non-starting world type) colony module. If you want to put a compatible colonizer module in it, go ahead, but it may or may not fit the "50% colony space" minimum

Was "Smaller Weapons" tech left in intentionally, to make riders more useful? Or is it a mistake? I do see that Small DUC was moved to that area so somehow I think it was intentional

It's basically left in solely for Troop weapons. At a later date I will probably consolidate it totally with the Troop Weapons tech (or I may keep it individuated for an "Infantry" troop type I'm playing with in my notes - we'll see...)

You really don't need to duplicate all the colonizer default design types - a given planet type is either compatible or it isn't!

I'm assuming this is in the "Default Design Type" list, right? That's mostly for human use. The AI's only know "compatible" or "hostile".

How about a "Highliner Explorer", "Highliner Scout", or "Highliner Reconnaissance" design type?

My different types are based entirely on Cargo Bay//Rider Bay//Everything Else ratios. What you do with that "Everything else" is up to you.

Uh, what is the point of highliner supply storage components? Engines are not much more expensive, are smaller, have more hitpoints, and store almost as much supply... and since there's no limit on the number of engines on a ship, that kind of makes supply storage useless... how about reducing it to 15kT or something?

I was thinking of that. I've also been toying with a total rework of the supply system (making Life Support the main supply generating component, with storage components jacked up exponentially and engines giving just movement). That I'll have to decide based on in-house experiments before I do anything with the released Mod.

Oh great... 6 turns till my first colony ship gets built... so much for doing anything in this game for a while (Can't even build a spaceyard base to accelerate future construction!)

Welcome to the Evil Icky Twin of Proportions Mod...

from Ekolis...
Storage is a little low for the scope of the beginning of the game. Perhaps 3x the size of intitial cargo ??

This was deliberate. Again, welcome to the evil twin of the Proportions Mod (ran out of space for smilies...). Interstellar travel starts low and slow, and builds up over time (and greater tech...)

The VPP can hit satellites and drones? But they don't have crew! Too bad it's impossible to make Master Computer ships immune to this weapon. Could give it the Mental Flailer damage type, but that's kinda pointless since the Mental Flailer is also in the Psychic tree...

I'm stuck with the limitations of the hard code. In order to get mental weapons to affect Riders (i.e. Fighters), they have to affect other "units" as well.

Maintenance Aptitude is still too cheap like in stock SE4 (I took +6)

I may do a real rework of maintenance in future iterations of this mod - depending on how well you do in this one...