An interesting thing I noticed that I'm not sure if its meant to be allowed or not, but the shipyard you get from capturing Kuat allows you to have at least two titans at the same time, which really is a huge difference (allowed me to smash through the pirates when they blocked my path to the enemies). Either way, I love this mod, especially with all the 4x changes being part of it!

Almost makes me wish you were doing more then just the rebels (despite how much work I know this must be for you already).

Also, there is nothing scarier then thinking you've got the advantage, pushing on with your almost destroyed fleet to try and kill them before they regroup... only to run into the Katana fleet!

It is intentional. And technically it lets you build as many Executors as you have the fleet supply for. :p I figure if you can spare the force needed to kill the defenders at Kuat, including an Executor there, and then have the money to buy a second titan, you deserve that advantage and would likely win anyways. 

They are harmless, as long as your enemy hasn't captured them yet. In fact, you want to be the first to find them so you can claim them.

Like? If its not before Episode 6 and not the Zahn Consortium, there is a small chance it might happen. The game's RAM limit might be the thing that really says no however, but we'll see what happens when the Rebels are done. Speaking of which...

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 202

It is intentional. And technically it lets you build as many Executors as you have the fleet supply for. I figure if you can spare the force needed to kill the defenders at Kuat, including an Executor there, and then have the money to buy a second titan, you deserve that advantage and would likely win anyways. 

Honestly? I had no real choice but to go past them in that game. I had the choice of either going to the enemy through the shipyards, or risk the loss of most of my fleet to go past a blackhole before taking out the pirate base. Those were the only two lanes that lead to the enemies. Ended up building the first titan there in a foundry I built at the shipyards. (Lore Junkie and all that).

I tend to turtle before unleashing overwhelming forces though, so I tend to have a really strong economy just before I start launching the final sledgehammer strikes. So yeah, two titans wasn't all that expensive and was me messing around.

EDIT: Could always do the Darth Krayt and the One Sith, Or the Lost Tribe of the Sith... or... *shrugs*

with all the pretty particles| you're a one-man god

Speaking of RAM limits.

This mod is the only one i really have problems playing large maps.

All ship details medium, planets med and buildings low. But if i am not lucky enough the game still crashs... 

Hope things will not get worse with the release of the rebellion side...

If you have 4 or more GB of RAM, you might want to consider Large Address Aware (LAA). I'll be uploading a download of it on the Interregnum page with instructions soonish. 

Well, I'll just say I have considered adding another faction after the Rebels/New Republic. But we'll see what happens. 

Also, we have an Alliance HUD!

Enabling it again was the first thing i did after the 1.82 update. So thats not the problem.

Thank you so much Goa.  You have made me a very happy man.

Huh, I've had people say the mod runs absolutely fine at highest settings on large maps with LAA enabled. Well I'm not an expert on this stuff, sadly your millage may vary definitely applies to LAA.

Had another crash in a new game. Maybe its not RAM related. Damn...

E4X, ST Armada 3 and DS are running fine...

Quoting Brunftzeit, reply 210

Had another crash in a new game. Maybe its not RAM related. Damn...

E4X, ST Armada 3 and DS are running fine...

If you ever get a crash that comes up on reloading an autosave at roughly the same point, always upload the save somewhere and send it to me. For crashes that seem truly random, and that don't appear again on reloading an autosave, there's really nothing I can do but assume its RAM related, since I won't even be able to see the problem on my end.

The Rebel Fleet gathers...

I keep forgetting how amazing unimpressive republic ships tend to look towards the ominous lines of a Star Destroyer.

These are Rebel Ships. The New Republic gets some more warship/star destroyer looking designs, though I don't think they really want their ships to be ominous. Most notable of these is probably the Nebula Star Destroyer.

I don't know what I am doing wrong but I downloaded it installed it. it started up right away which was nice. However, there is only the Empire and Warlords? No Rebels or New Republic?

Yes. I'm working on adding the Rebels right now. Sorry, that's a bit more clear on the moddb page (though its also said under the progress section in this OP). Basically with each update I add a new faction. Alpha 1 added the Galactic Empire, Alpha 2 added the Warlords, Alpha 3 will have the Rebels etc. 

I generally like how you kept the core races etc. I am wondering though .. Why you chose to have certain tech be required to make various cap ships? I've noticed this trend in nearly every mod. I feel like it's left over from old RTS thinking. With CORE sins all the cap ships are always Valuable and all have their uses however, in mods like this it feels like the you're stuck with the Early cap ships and then when the good stuff comes down later in the tech tree you've got these useless caps you spent time leveling and fighting with etc. 

I will say this isn't too bad in your mod because you haven't gone super crazy with damage armor and shield etc. However in other mods when people do that it just makes the problem so much worse. 

Is there really a reason why not all Captial ships can be made at the same time? There has to be a way to round out all of em so even the less Ship-of-the-Line classes still feel relevant end game right?

And a totally separate question where did that 4X add on come from? 

Also I am not the biggest Star Wars fan.. as you can tell from my Avatar lol however that Republic Star Destroyer you posted a pic of a few paragraphs above looks amazing. Did you do that whole design and concept from scratch yourself?

The problem is that 4 of the Empire's capitalships, the Imperial-I, Imperial-II, Tector and Interdictor Star Destroyers, are bigger, have better stats and are more expensive than the default capitalships. By default in Sins your first capitalship is free, so if you could build these capitalships right away you could get an Imperial II Star Destroyer than costs something like 4500 credits, while the Vanilla races would get their standard 3000 credit capitalships that are overall somewhat weaker. So any capitalships that is substantially stronger than vanilla capitalships will need to have research to prevent the player from getting these capitalships for free at the start of the game.

The Venator Star Destroyer, AKA the one from Episode 3, has research because it is more commonly associated with the Republic, not the Empire, and I wanted to reflect that it was not necessarily common by making it harder to get.

Also I've had several people tell me that those Victory Star Destroyers are quite useful. The Victory-I is what you should probably always get first anyway, because while your Sentinel Landing Craft colony frigates are very cheap, they are consumed when they colonize a planet, so having a colony capitalship is more useful to the Empire. If you keep it alive later in the game its siege abilities help you clear out enemy planets much faster. The Victory-II on the other hand can be useful for crippling enemy ships firepower with Disruptive Ion Bolts and giving antimatter to your other Star Destroyers with redoubled efforts.

I will say that the Empire will suffer the most from this problem. The Rebels will have 4 capitalships to pick from without research, and the New Republic will have at least 3.

It is actually the base for the mod, not an addon, since Interregnum needs it to run. Long story short, many years ago I was one of the devs of the Star Wars Requiem mod. However, that mod's philosophy was to stay very close to Vanilla mechanics, and as I got better at modding I got a bit bored with those. So I switched to making the Enhanced 4X Mod (just a vanilla races enhancement mod) in an attempt to make Sins play the way I wanted it to play, as well as adding new features that would be needed when I would start working on Star Wars again, such as the Hero Units. Once E4X got to a state I was happy with about one year ago I started making my own Star Wars mod, Interregnum, from scratch. This is the result at this time. 

It's a model of the Nebula Star Destroyer from the Star Wars expanded universe, or Star Wars Legends universe as they're calling it now since Episode VII has destroyed it. Basically its a warship from the Star Wars novels built by the New Republic, I.e. the Rebel Alliance after they captured Coruscant from the Empire a few years after Episode VI. Apparently this picture is from one of the Star Wars sourcebooks.

Sadly this model is much too nice to fit in the Sins engine, but this ship will appear as one of the New Republic faction's best capitalships. It is certainly one of my favorite designs of theirs.

Since you're not a big Star Wars fan, I will say that another way of looking at the factions in (or will be in) this mod is as follows.

Galactic Empire - The Empire based as it was in the original trilogy.

Warlords - Empire based on the various Warlords/Imperial Remnant from the Expanded Universe.

Rebel Alliance - Rebels as they were in the original trilogy.

New Republic - The good guys after they established a legitimate government in the Expanded Universe.

Also to be perfectly honest, I'm not exactly sure what your avatar is. 

It's the Symbol for the Ferengi Alliance *Star Trek* ... That 4X add on is amazing.. I was hoping it was hinting at a new Stardock expansion. It felt completely cannon and meshed in well. 

As far as your other answers I can see those points.

Any chance of other factions making it in? The Hutt Cartel and etc? 

Ah, I know of the Ferengi. Watched all of TNG and still don't recognize that symbol though. :p

Thank you. 

It won't be the Hutts, I kind of killed them off in the mod's lore (Vasari Loyalists enslave them, fittingly enough). But there maybe another faction, depends on how much more stuff I can cram into the mod when the other four races are done.

Aww come on Hutt voices are so much fun to listen too lol... Maybe Hutt Cartel Pirates?

I actually liked the trade coalition a lot but the mod that has em has those mechanics I hate. 

At any rate I can't wait to play the new republic etc. I wish you luck with your continued work. 

Oh and as far as where you see this symbol? It's on some of the ships and outfits but you see it most gloriously spinning at the center of the Ferengi Commerce Exchange aka when they show close ups of the "wallstreet" screen. I think maybe only in DS9?

Ok I been playing as the Warlords now.. I have some small suggestions.

#1. Avoid making any of the icons under the research tabs gray. They get washed out and they look *unsearchable* even when they are. Either way their just visually awkward. 

#2. The sins stock ships are really good at weaving in faction colors onto the Cap ships without making em look like a carnival. I see you've done it on some of the ships any chance of making it happen more? 

#3. I freaked out when I built my first Super Star Destroyer immediately after it was made I got the message "Our titan has been lost" and it disappeared right out of spacedock but didn't explode. A couple seconds later it appeared on the edge of the gravity well? I was using the guy that gives the 10% Rate of Fire so not the cloaking guy... I don't know what caused this?

This has been brought up a few times. Unfortunately the Empire really like their grey ships, so any screenshots of them or on them tend to be fairly colorless. But I will try to make the unavailable researchable icons darker as well as grey to hopefully make it more easy to distinguish.

Depends, again the Empire was not a very colorful faction lore wise. Most vividly this is shown at the end of Episode 3, where the once colorful Venators of the Republic fleet have had all their paint taken off. The Rebels might make better use of the team colors. Their Starfighters already make pretty nice use of it I think.

I'm afraid that's just how it had to work. Sins has this silly thing where you can give a faction 9 (I.e. a full UI menu of) logistical structures, 9 tactical structures, 9 Frigates, 9 Cruisers, 9 Capitalships... but only 2 titans, even though there is room in the UI for seven more.

By the time I realized this, I had already planned much more than 2 titans for this faction, so the only way to fit them in was to have that second titan be sort of a place holder ship that would spawn the appropriate titan for your faction then kill itself. If you ever check out the optional minimod pack for Interregnum/E4X the resetting titan levels minimod works in basically the same way; it was simply the only way to get around the hardcoded problem.

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