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On the Ultimate mod.

I must be playing with an older Version of the mod after you mentioned that the maintanence bug on the die-cast mount has been fixed...so if this is also out of date then just disregard.

Further on the Die-cast mount...I must say that it is probably the single most interesting change of the mod that I have seen so far. The reason being the fact that it makes nearly half of a ships components (and sometimes all) quite hard to destroy. Most battles now take more than one go-round to have one side eliminated...even in a one on one. I can see that maybe later in the game once weapons can become quite powerful due to mounts, this will be partially negated. I am not sure, but I would think that in the fix of this feature...some extra cost should have been added given that in the Version I am playing armor under the die-cast mount is worth 120k of damage. Personally I would add only cost in resources and not a larger size as the draw backs of this mount. I find that as it is, there are no draw backs to this mount...every ship gets it...making the strategy of chosing non-existent.

Overall, the greatest asset of the diecast is the lenght and realism it gives to combat. I now engage the enemy...both sides lose a few ships and then if I see I cannot win I retreat...or now...try to draw out the conflict until reinforcements arrive.

Good work on this. I will d/l the mod again and see what has changed, but over all I think it is a great addition to the game.

I agree with the previous post about the smaller weapons in that they make combat too long. Personally I don't use them...and I really don't see the benefit in using them...other than the fun of having space machine guns.

I love the stars having abilities, but I would suggest if possible attempting to reduce the percentage of those that have abilities. In my present game, of the say 15 systems I have explored almost half make shields useless. That makes shields a nearly useless component.

Just some thoughts. But overall, I like the completely different feel....good work.