Thanks for your testing
First I want to thank you for your analysis and your opinion.
Your tool looks helpful even if I don't understand it completely (what does these funny numbers mean? and why does your tool count any vacuum/gas giant or other planets even if there are none of them in the secttype.txt???), but you are right I should fix the Vacuum Breather advantage. The problem with the quadrant add-up will also be fixed with the next patch and before the game starts. The other things will be fixed for game round 2, at least I will consider doing that.
My english isn't good enough to understand everything what you said, so can you please explain the problems with the combat and maintenance modifiers again? Do you say that I should increase the costs for ship attack+defense and maintenance, because they are more valuable than the other traits?
A +7 speed bonus is extreme, but who pays 3500 Racial Points for that? 500 Points for 1 movement is too cheap? What are more balanced costs for the Storage, Power and Propulsion Techniques? Maybe I should also limit the speed bonus via racial traits to +5? I will see what happens in the SMod game round 1 and tweak these settings for the next match. Patching these things now will only make the seven waiting players angry, because they have to wait again for the game start. This will give me time to think about it and your suggestions are always welcome.
And thank you, too, for the smaller mod Version without the image packs, but whoever uses this "light" Version should remember, that I reworked some of the images in the packs and without the included races you don't have the reworked portraits. So I recommend to download the huge "full" Version, but for testing the mod. Maybe there can be a third part file with the ripped images for those who already have the light Version and want to upgrade to the full?
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