Agreed, I am all for sharing modding knowledge with the community, and helping aspiring modders along. If you dont "P'Tah"! I will kill you where you stand! (More humor )

I happen to like Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG (both the old and the new), B5, and just sci fi genres in general. Mixing up genres is just plain ridiculous. I lost count of all the flame wars that have started over this genre vs that genre on the Homeworld, and Starfleet Command boards. Leave them as they are, and enjoy it for what it is.

Yah! Like Steven Seagal Movies!

Though, a futuristic Steven Seagal mod for SINS might be cool.

OR what about Walker: Texas Space Ranger, now that would be awesome.

  

A Steven Seagal mod for SINS? What would it be about? Empires could have a diplomatic screen where they would send each other messages about past fictional CIA operations and fights they won. The Emperor that gains the most weight while bragging about BS is the winner.

Hmmm, that actually sounds kind of cool...forget a Star Wars mod, let's do something that will really make gamers notice.

Mon Calamari Cruiser is the biggest ship of the Rebellion. Its just a little weaker than an ESD.

The Empire was the one with the specialized ships.

The Rebelion on the other had small fleets and had to use multi-purpose ships. However the New Galactic Republic did start having specialized ships, including stolen Imperial ships.

the deathstar...its purpose was "OMG WTF PWN"

Wasn't the Interdictor class in the Frigate/Destroyer range? I asked what Imperial Cruiser sized ships or bigger had a specialized role.

The Death Star had a huge amount of strike Craft, a huge amount of occupation/invasion ground forces, and a huge amount of ship to ship and ship to planet firepower. It was also set up to be used as a political center. I don't know, but this doesn't seem very focus purpose to me.

Still Great Emperor, thanks for mentioning the Interdictor. It reminded me of the Dominator class Star Destroyer was pretty close to a focused ship. It had reduced combat power compared to ISDIIs and ISDIs. I also think it carried less fighters and no ground troops. Its job was to use its gravity wells and have a bit more survivability than the Interdictors.

Toka above is correct, The rebellion tended to use more specialised ships, as did the new republic and the GFFA. The empire and the Old republic used pretty much big-ass, cram-every-needed-function-in-it ships.

small correction though, The victory I was a Missle carrier, designed for stand-off engements...

For tokakeke's reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Moff_Tarkin#Tarkin_Doctrine

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Navy_(Star_Wars)

Okay, we now know 100% that the game will not use an open connection map system. We also know that we won't have the tools necessary to make a single huge gravity well and fill it with entire star systems in order to simulate Star Wars open connection travel. So, what can we do to simulate Star Wars free movement hyperspace travel?

Effectively, it looks like we are down to only 1 way of making a Star Wars type open connection galactic map. We will need to make a custom map that has all the official Star Wars star systems in it. Then, we will need to directly inter connect all planets/asteroids/stars on the map with each other.

Hopefully the game will have a very high limit to the total number of phase lanes that can be present. Still, if the number of Phase Lanes is limited, we can simply allow open connection within the star systems, but only allow star to star phase space travel. That would mean that you could only get to another star system by first going to the star in they system you are presently in (like how the standard game works). That would seriously cut down on the total number of phase lanes needed.

The last step is making all the phase lanes invisible (otherwise the map would look like a spiderweb), but this is a simple thing to do.

I wish that were the case. However Yarlen recently checked into it and it looks like Open Connection maps won't be possible. However, the above mentioned work around seems a 100% thing. Also, a second way involving super sized gravity wells that hold entire star systems within them might also be possible.

The only problem with that last possibility will be phase space inhibitors. As it is, phase space inhibitors effect the entire gravity well they are in. So, 1 phase inhibitor could prevent anybody from phase travelling out of that super sized gravity well...I guess you can see the problem with that.

I do believe that I hate you more than Yarlen... Don't worry, it won't last long...

I was just relaying what Blair told me.