I just wanted to say thanks Heremvore. I had all but stopped playing GC3 because it was just too easy. I tried your mod out and I feel like a complete newbie again. I feel like I am playing Dark Avatar for the first time in GC2. I had to lower the AI settings just to keep up, just as I did in Dark Avatar. I lost my first 3 games on my normal settings and I have not lost a game in years on default build. I tried really hard to not lose, but I just had to give up and play at lower settings until I can play once again at the higher settings.

Brad really needs to offer you a job.

Dude wtf did you do? You have 246 resources from 1 Durantium ect. I suggest you try playing with out cheating to the point of madness.

I have been debating what to do with carriers of late. I am a believer that they should have thier own Hull Type, but we cant not at present add our own Hull types. This leave me with a bit of a dilemma as to what I wish to accomplish with them. I want them to be viable, but I do not want "Carrier Fleets" as I feel this is a bit out of canon for Star Trek. So these are my current ideas:

Idea one (I am leaning towards this)

• Increase Module Mass.
• Increase Manufacturing Cost.
• Add a Logistic Penalty.

Idea Two

• Increase Fighter Cap.
• Make Carrier Modules one per Ship.
• Increase Manufacturing Cost.
• Increase Module Mass.

Main issue with both is will the AI use either properly.

The AI does use it in the mod, might not use it to its full potential like players do. Hense why I still gave them Mass increases via the handicaps. Techs is the route I will take, like I have for 75% of the bonses so far. Peoples thoughts is what I am after

I didnt mean carriers were out of canon, but Carrier Fleets.

An update on 0.4 Alpha Patch

Sensor Techs now effect Colonies.
Base races have been hidden.
Start Date changed to 2150.
Vulcan, Andorian & Tellerite changed to Major Factions.
Added 6 Ship Appearances 2 each for the new factions.
Changed Homeworld descriptions to be more informative.
Federation changed to United Earth Republic. (To better match the star date & new Factions. More inline with canon for the time period.)
Removed Encounters from Anomolies.
Tech costs for Age of War increased by 25%.
Tech costs for Age of Ascension increased by 50%.
Tech costs for Age of Victory increased by 75%.
First 3 tiers of Economy Starbase modules reduced by 5%.
Economy Ring Production bonus reduced to 7%.
Research inflation increased by 4% per tech.
Research inflation for beelining one tree further increases techs for that tree by 4% per tech.
Increased Max resolutions too show by 4.
30% Speed added to Interceptors.
15% Speed added to Escorts.
+5% Speed added to Assaults.
-10% Speed added to Capitals.
-5% Speed added to Guardians.
Starbase Maintenace increased by 2% per starbase (7% now).
AI Strategy Tweaks.

This is for uhm testings uhm for a friend uhm. With or without my spicy cheatos abillity the crash occurs  

I am not ready

Some stuff I still need to test/balance. But if you want to play with what I consider to be an un tested patch, that may or may not unbalance the game....Feel Free.

Why do you call this an alpha and not a beta? Alphas imply crashes and while I came in at 3f(?) a properly installed game has never crashed. Beta test stage is more like what you are doing now - play balancing and fine tuning features. Maybe because you are still adding features? But I think you will be finished when you finish adding features and the game as is is rock solid. I got GC3 when it was in alpha and now that was an alpha!

0.4 Link in reply 291 updated.

Changes:

Minors periodically get Colony ships (Max of 4). This is on top of the starter ones and any they get from Anomolies.
Reduced the Minor Race Research, Morale & Production bonuses.
Added AI Strategy for Minors.
Rebalanced most Traits that used Modifiers, this is to make all traits equaly beneficial in one way or the other. (Have fun relearning how to min/max )

So you redid the traits you use when you build a custom race? So the Dense trait does not grant a %increase to hulls?

Small issue starting up. Got this error message "Duplicate InternalName found in type ImprovementDef: MinistryOfExploration" was able to continue passed it.