[QuarianRex]

Andres:

The shields that I have right now are @ one level behind in raw power [ie. lv 1 adaptive (normal) shields have 30 shield pts and regen of 5, while lv 5 adaptive (normal) shields have 225 pts and regen of 15] and I have kept the regen low so it has an effect but not an unbalancing one.

The crystaline armor effect is an interesting idea (and one that I had previously considered) but I did some reading on its actual effects and I thought that it would be too unbalancing. Besides. that would have to be a modification to the armor (or make the generators act as armor but I don't like that idea) and it already regenerates, so I don't want to make any one component overly powerful. Also, I am making the defense tech area a capturable tech so that other races lucky enough to capture a Cube can get something nifty for analysis (so the tech should eventually spread out). Though I am toying with the idea of giving the armor some minor emissive abilities at extremely high levels (depending on how the ability is working in gold).

As far as size goes, I have already at least doubled the tonnage of most of the primary components (I admit my initial estimations may have been a bit off). And these aren't to actual Borg scale either. From what I found at Daystrom Institute, etc. was a basic Cube wieght of @ 9 million kt. Even divided by 20,000 to get a somewhat reasonable SE4 tonnage of 4,500kt seems somewhat excessive.

Right now I'm basing it on a maximum Cube size of @ 1200-1400kt, equivalent to some of the baseships I've seen. The Tactical Cube will be equivalent/a little bigger (probably going to designate it as a carrier).

Also, I'm making this with an eye towards game balance relative to the standard game (both for testing purposes and for compatibility against a friends proposed mod). As such there is somewhat of a progression of Cube sizes etc. for the sake of playability. When the sizes get finalized for the crossover-mod then I can rescale some of the items.

Please note that this subject to change once I start testing it out. Once Gold finally gets to me then I can see what actually works.