Some suggestions for the mod, though some of them apply to Fyron's mod instead.
The main suggestion for Devnull mod is to reduce the maintenance of starbases. Units can be amassed like no tomorrow (woo fighters! I love how point defense weapons don't kill them anymore), which of course have no maintenance to worry about. Meanwhile bases can't move around to intercept baddies, shift uneven defenses, ect., and they have maintenance costs to boot.
Another suggestion would be to make fighters harder to hit (and likewise, increase the to-hit modifier of anti-fighter missiles). I see my ships charge into battle and easily wipe out a small contigent of fighters without batting an eye, and with huge mounted weapons no less. And they have 0 experience with only level 2 combat sensors, with my race having a +8 offensive characteristic.
I think the mounts should be re-ordered somewhat for the sake of the poor AI, with possibly more Versions thrown in (huge pulse mount weapons, for example). I'm also a little confused about some of the added ship types that act as "inbetween" ships yet are discovered at the same time as the larger ships. That is, they don't seem terribly useful unless perhaps they expanded the ship construction tree by making dreadnauts higher level.
For Fyron's Quadrant Mod:
Way too many planets in the standard midlife quadrant. I like the many moons and that makes things interesting (is it possible to have even more?
), but I'd like to see less planets. One difficulty with moons is that it's hard to see which ones have breathable atmospheres on the map.
There are also a large number of asteroids, too. I _think_ the single-cell units of asteroids are meant to represent a belt rather than just a simple stationary clump, but having a ship equipped with a matter condensor and an engineering bay can quickly turn an asteroid belt into another 15 planets.
[ September 13, 2002, 16:17: Message edited by: Mylon ]