What you are suggesting suggests intelligence which as far as AI goes it's still at least 20 - 50 years away if ever... 

@Yarlen

Is there any remote possibility that you might consider implementing a scripting layer for modding sins (like you are planning to do with elemental)? That would be the single greatest help you could give us modders.

Pls fix Repair bay autocast priorities. You can have a capital ship at 200 hull and your repair bays choose to heal their fellow repair bays instead. Understandable heh but I have no sympathy for them. And microing repair is tedious, needlessly.

Capital ships and Starbases need to be top priorities for Repair bays. Everything else is secondary.

Will animosity be fixed?

Currently, its a very simple "I told you attack this you stupid ships" and the effect is effectivly broken.

Quite a few mods have various work arounds... you could look into those... but they are not really the simple "attack the radiance or attack nothing" system that i assume was wanted.

Fix the Dunvo icon! its been backwards since the Damn Advent invaded.

That capital ship (Advent Revelation) needs to have its abilities revamped.  I almost never see anyone building it, and when I say "almost never" I mean perhaps once a year (and the player who built it was probably a noob).  I can't say that for any other capital ship.

Unfortunatly, the devs have noted that they plain refuse to 'scrap and replace' any abilities.  

Guidance could concievably reduce antimatter useage on its target without changing the ability significantly.   This might make it usefull for telepush, detonate antimatter, reverie itself (you could shut down a whole host of skirantras!), both the support cap's abilities... the progen doesnt benifit much.. though continous shield restore might be nice.

dupe

Mk, its nice to know that the game mechanics are working as designed.

(and it its nice to know that devs look into what I write on here )

Now I just need to some how find a way to keep myself from talking about balance till tomorrow... one day till patch... one day till patch...

And people wonder why Diplomacy lags so bad.

I am a self taught modder who though entrenchment was great but Diplomacy sucked do to the lag so I got involved with the TSOP project where Major Stress had the bright idea of compressing most of the .tga textures to .dds saving a lot of memory. For the SOA2 Diplomacy projct I am taking this 1 step further and actually taking textures from 1 file and squeezing them on to others which so far I have gotten rid if about a dozen texture files.

Then I came across this waste of space in the Diplomacy Textures Directory. OMG, really guys, this is the best you could do?

Now it's no surprise that a 1024x1024 .tga makes the worst offender list with all the research icons and Fleet Upgrade pics but to add 4 more 1024x1024 sheets to fit 69 icons that would have fit onto the original 4 ButtonsResearch sheets easily.

Please learn how to not waste texture space needlessly and maybe I could play a 10 player game without it being a slide show.

GameLogo_Opening.tga 3mb

3mb - Whats this doing in my memory all game. Why can't it be a LoadonDemand if it needs to be here?

20mb with 2 file sets. Imagine when I get through them all.

Or how about this one. Relationships_PLACEHOLDER.tga. 3mb

What does this do in my memory?

These last 2 are also listed as worst offenders and I don't even have the game loaded yet  .

Fix up my mod for those files I pointed out.

Spent more time on this post. Saved 21 mb in 10 mins

I consider Finest Hour to be less of the issue... its not an endless antimatter buffet... It has a long cool down, and a significant portion of the gained antimatter must be used to pay off the initial antimatter investment. 

Lets say we have... A Kol, lv 6... in its own culture, with substatian cultural upgrades (+antimatter/second)... and maybe a lv 6 donov around... whatever... a KOL with unlimited antimatter and lv 3 GRG.

ehh... woops. I missremembered my damage for GRG... so... my previous post, saying GRG damage... 1/2 it.  lv 1 does 325 damage, not 600.

ehh so, lv 3 GRG... 975 Damage every 6 seconds

With finest hour on... it gives a 16.6% increase in rate of fire (remember, fun, sins stacking)... which actually translates right back into 20% increase in dps.

SO, 195 DPS.  Sure looks nice compared to death egg's 25 DPS + -4.5 armor.

Actually... huh... that is kinda nice.,.. 71 fleet supply worth of (unupgraded) LRMs... huh.

I mean, its still, 195*..75*(armor)... for the 3 armor case it gets down to 51 true DPS. or, against shields, 58.5 DPS.

so... best case: 58.5 DPS.  That is using 75 antimatter every 5 seconds.  Almost able to break a progen's shield restore. 

If we factor in the fact that 120 seconds are 6seconds per shot, and 60 seconds are 5 seconds per shot, we get an antimatter useage of 13.33 antimatter/second.

A lv 10 kol is able to produce 1.47 antimatter/seconds (without upgrades) throw in upgrades and we get 1.764 antimatter/second next is...  Last Stand, over the 3 min cool down, does the equivilant of an additional .83 antimatter/second (factoring in the cost of last stand itself)

If we assume our perfect lv10 kol is sitting in its own, completly researched culture, we can tack on an additional 1.5 antimatter/second. We end up with a grand total of 4.1 antimatter restored per second.

In other words... A lv 10 kol in perfect of perfect of circumstances will only be able to use GRG(and last stand) to full effect if there are 3x LV 6 DONOVES PERFECTLY CHAINING FLUX FIELD .  just dont try to use flack burst, or adaptive shielding.

Assuming we dont have 3 lv 6 donoves... we find that we are a factor of 3.25 short of being able to set GRG on autocast. So, multiplying EVERYthing out... we end up with 15.6 TRUE DPS. The equivilant of 3.55 LRMS.

ehh, i seemed to have forgotten the possibility of a starbase with lv2 resupply.... which adds another 4.166 antimatter/second for 60 seconds every... 105 seconds... another 2.381 antimatter/second. Grand total TEC maxed out rediculously everything KOL regen of 6.5 antimatter/second.  STILL less than 1/2 the required antimatter to spam GRG in a stupid manner.... And not nearly enough damage/second to beat the regen of perfectly chained lv3 powersurge.  (33.75 heal/second vs 22.14 damage/second (thats at 65% shield mitigation, which a lv 5 kortul will have)

Lets hope really really hard the enemy doesnt have any advent light frigs, detonate antimatter, or a kortul, or donoves themselves.

any questions?  hopefully my math is right... cause that was about 1.5 hours of my time right there i expected to spend doing homework.

got that? punch line:  lv10 maxresearched,maxcultured kol inside starbase resupply range cannot out DPS a lv5 kortul's shield restore rate.  Thats my theory. Anyone wanna verify with experimental data?

Oh, GRG is way out of the ballpark.  It needs substantial improvement just to get to the point at which we can start to have serious debate about its merits (currently: none).  I was speaking more of the Kols we do see on occasion:  Flak Kols with maxed out burst and adaptive shields as their secondary.  Flak Burst isn't always spammed as soon as the cooldown is up; you usually time it to maximize effectiveness.  As the Kol does its job, you need to use it less and less often.  So in practice, level 6+ Kols do not run out of antimatter.

The problem, as I mentioned already, is that level 6+ gives you both the antimatter leeway to use your skills more often, while also making the skills powerful enough that you don't need to use them as often.  The end result is that low-level Kols are capital ships who run out of steam before the job done, and high level Kols are capital ships that can get the job done quickly with antimatter to spare.  Right now GRG isn't on the radar, but if we buffed it enough, I strongly suspect it would suffer the same issue as flak burst in this respect.