So much to reply to
Glad to see that the forum doesn't need me to keep it moving on a daily basis
Jimbob:
Capturing other race's tech is completely possible in the B5 mod, though the intial level of tech requires the 'racial only trait' of that race, subsequent branches built from that tree can be captured and researched. So, if a Narn ship captures a Drazi ship, it can reverse engineer and may discover Drazi Light Weapons, and they may then research forward.
That being said, there are still some things that are totally racial specific - mostly ancient technology. The reason is that most other younger races shouls not be able to grasp that level of tech - hard to reverse engineer something that is barely understandable to begin with. As for other ancients, all media on them says they would consider it 'distasteful' in the strongest of terms to be caught using technology from another ancient - almost admitting theirs isn't the best. Doesn't mean they wouldn't try to imitate the tech though
Pathfinder:
Combat Telepaths are available to Shadows, but they are pretty useless, as they only harm Shadow vessels
Pop Transports - I have to look at the AI again before I can answer that one.
PD- After the ships asign weapons and base engines, there is a requirement for Point-Defense, set the % there for PDF weapons.
Lighthorse:
I wanted to leave the traits seperate in case someone wanted to make their own race or have a 'nomadic narn' tech based race. But it is a good idea
Other Nomadic Race - Soulhunters
Other Ancient Races - Torvalus, Kirishiac, Mind Riders, Triad, Travelers
Shadow and LNAW colors - Done!
Shipyard Ships - Early SYS are actually just repair vessels, you need much larger ships to make a 'real' SYS, so at a higher level they will (well should) start bulding SYS with yards in them
Simon:
Simon had mentioned that there was no evidence of shields for the Brakiri, the source that I had found that in was the Bab5Wars game, it seems they 'borrowed' the tech from the Abbai, so I guess we can just make the Abbai shields stealable so this could happen - and the Brakiri would not be able to research it
Terra-forming - he was also concerned about terra-forming (as has been mentioned by others), but I can't seem to make the terra-forming process slow enough (funny as that sounds). Any suggestions?
SJ:
Weapon Platforms - Exactly! They will only be able to attack incoming troops and fighters for the most part, and act as damage absorbers for planetary assault weapons.
Gil:
Simon has finished the text for your shipset, if you can put all your most recent ships in a set and zip it for me, I will put it in the next patch.
Baron Munausen:
Yup, the Great Machine is in there as a Ruins Tech. It will be one of a very short number of Weap Platforms that can do serious damage to a ship. It gives access to a HUGE weapon platform and a weapon that takes all that space - it is expensive to build and maintain, but I could not think of a way to restrict it to a single planet