credits, metal, and crystal on the second shot. Dev cheat for the win.

a new capital ship.... now thats good news.

Not really impressed so far with the tech tree style diplomacy though. Seems like their is still no real diplomacy, its just stats to push numbers around. Human element evaded....

Not that I expected to talk to the enemy and actually negotiate. I just would have expected a more warm and fuzzy human element to diplomacy. A random effect a bit more like total war..... rather than an absolute power effect of stats. U are guaranteed a diplomatic relationship if you hold the cards, there is not hate, no historical problems to overcome, no historical allies, no feeling as to who will be reliable dis-regarding resources and who will turn on you.

btw, the devs deny that there is a new capital ship. wonder what that means...

LOL!  Almost $3,000,000 credits!  Wow.  And 12 unused Cap ship crews! 1800 unused Fleet!

But of significance;  Tier 4 research (w/2 prerequisites!): "Universal Negotiation - Allows you to offer and demand gifts of credits, metal and crystal from oppossing factions."  In other words, allows you to feed, or be fed.

may be you can use it for capture other ships like one of the advent captal ship could do it

Maybe it is for building replacement construction frigates (constructors).  In online multiplayer, they are usually the first thing targeted.  Yes, they auto-build, but only after 6 minutes! (If hostiles remain in the gravity well). They auto-build in half a minute once there is no threat in the grav well (for free no less).  But there are also good reasons to have 'extra' constructors, if that is what it allows.

I don't know.  The other pictures we saw, were definitely of a TEC constructor.  But maybe this little icon, in the 7th slot, in the cruiser menu (the second level of frigates), that looks like a constructor... is the envoy cruiser.

But then I have no clue what is in the cap ship menu.  I believe Yarlen, when he says, "There aren't any new capital ships in the works", reply #34.

Diplomacy requires Entrenchment to play.

And as far as the new ships seen there.  I thought the Constructors were frigates.  So wouldn't they be in the frigates category if they're buildable?  Same with the Envoy Cruiser.  Even if it costs a lot and has abilities, ect...  wouldn't it still be in the cruiser category?  I mean making it build from a Cap Ship Factory, cost a lot, have abilities, and use crew supply would technically in game purposes make it a "Cap Ship"...  Hm, maybe I'm thinking too much about it though.

We just have to wait for the devs to chime in on this.

Hmm...  What is that new capital?

Well, we know that there is there are the Envoys and Constructors for cruisers, but what does that leave in capitals?

I mean, unless Yarlen didn't know about it, but I would certainly think he would be informed...  I suppose another possibility is that they reformed the way you build superweapons as it kinda-sorta looks like a Nova...  

It looks to have an axial gun, so unless they borrowed my lancer idea from my mod, I got nothing...

Construction frigates cannot be built at the frigate factory in Entrenchment. That icon is just a placeholder. So this means that two new ships for TEC (very likely the other races too) are available. One of the devs forgot to change it for the screenshot.

In regards to the constructor icon, if you check out this thread: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/365639 youll see where it's mentioned that the icon for the constructor was a placeholder that didn't get removed. Looks to me like that means a new cap and a new cruiser, but dont quote me on that.

Edit: rephrased part of that to actually make sense

I wish I knew, all I know is that they cancelled the third due to time constraints and said they wanted to do more just another micro for Sins

Has anyone else seen the diplomacy trailer on the home page?