Grim idk about the TEC but for the galactica you have to realise the TA gets a silly amount of fighters with a full compliment of cap ships and only a few cruisers i had 198 fighter squads the caps almost become redundant u end up pwning everything with fighters. SO they are very strong in the begining often time i find u will have to back out of a fight and repair and return. I think with the tec u can use the repair cruisers to sort that out though. TA are a nasty bunch.

If you have researched most of the Research Centers and Research complexes, for the Replicators, then your research cost will be zero.

Can you clarify what you mean?

Is it normal when you play an 8 player game and make a computer player on the same team as you for them to instantly break the team and end the alliance as the game starts? That seems kind of silly to even bother to team up.. This doesnt have anything to do with locked teams does it?

Well that makes sense that the AI is too stupid to turn on and off autocast   Its not all that hard to adapt to the need to click off the replication so it doesnt suck your fleet points down.

Also i had heard of this program for dynamic fleet combat and i wanted to talk about this idk if you use it but with some frigates and some ships it makes sense. But there is a seriously stupid problem with the handling of capital ships they make these terribly wide sweeping turns, now i know most people say its because they have large mass and yadda yadda, but the fact its space has no inertia so essentially enough thrust and they could spin on a dime but i am more just ranting my main issue is. Often when i tell 2 cap ships to attack a target one of them will take the most retarded flight path thats totally unrealistic or fly right past a target when it gets close, now idk if this is due to this dynamic battle but its not only frustrating its really unrealistic. Is there a way to address how cap ships handle so they don't fly or move so unrealistically? I mean ive no  complaints about fighters they move fine so do cruisers and frigs but the cap ships they get spread apart they wont adjust course to where you tell them to go its like fighting with the navigator. Any ideas why this might be happening?

Not that familiar with it. I think SGI and Star Trek mod use it. I think it is for E & D where the frigates/capitals have fighter movement characteristics. Simple to do.

Have a look at.

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/341567

The problem is I don't want to change the original races. Also, at this stage, its not in the development path of the Maelstrom mod.

You know that if you select a ship or fleet of your ally you can ping him for help, its not automatic. As I said I don't form alliances much in my games so you'll have to work out the exact details, if memory serves me right its straight forward once you know you have that option.

I don't know if this minor (though problematic) bug has been addressed, however the EMP Debuff on the Norlamin Anti-Carrier Carrier (Slot 5) seems to be permanent, in that even after said ship has been destroyed and/or left your gravity well and persisting through game closing to reloading said debuff still persists.  In a rather funny fashion, I have an arsenal of "Galactica" class (Slot 2) Caps unable to launch said fighters/bombers.

As an aside, in the case of the Alliance, I have noticed an inability or unwillingness of the alliance fighters to target bombers. 

That said, I am finding this a quite enjoyable mod, with quirky balances, the generally week overall ships of the Norlamin being offset by excellent support and healing features and the overall frailty of the fleet being further offset by an ability to assimilate entire swaths of the enemy fleet or planetary defenses.  The only side so far I have found to be a bit under the others (at least when it is vs Vicious Level computer Cator or Norlamin opponents) are the Alliance, while they have an excellent economy (assuming you survive long enough to get it going) in both early and late game they are decisively inferior to their counterparts, whether it's due to the oompf (laymans for heavy firepower) of the Cator or the inevitable mass assimilations of the Norlamin, even "mass" producing replacements to replenish your lines has little ability to temper the inevitable slide backwards to your best defensive stronghold.

My 2c. Thank you again for this very enjoyable mod.

There are 4 servers used to handle the forums and they don't all update at the same time.  So changes to your information on one can show up immediately or sometimes take an hour or even a day to show up on the others depending on when they resync low priority things (i.e. anything not an actual post).  You'll notice this happens a lot with the karma system.  It hasn't been that bad since the last round of updates though.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into it.

Done and Done, thank you very much.

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Brilliant idea and configuration, although during extended fights I find that the pirates expand in number exponentially faster than they decline as 2-4+ fully engaged NPC/PC economies can sustain a nigh constant stream of maximum point raids.  This is not a Mod issue, but rather a function of Diplomacy and that painful inefficiency of Sins in general, not to mention the worrisome 2g limit. 

As a note, I love the various movie/game musics that cycle and the great sound work in general, it's very immersive.

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Yes, I noticed and couldn't reply to your blank post!

Yes, I'm not sure why the Replicators never dominate.

They had colonized a planet ... which become their new base, i.e you have to destroy all planets colonized by the pirates to knock them out of the game.

No, I don't know of anyway to do that. Their behaviour is hardcoded.

The Dreads have been integrated ... for about a week. I was think of releasing a beta (Entrenchment) so some players could test and give feedback. Currently moddling, updating planetary structures.

I prefer a incognito, as I would rather people focus on the mod and playing it ... as you might of noticed I don't give myself credits.

Maelstrom is as good a name as another.