New mega-project? image - Empire At War Remake: Galactic Civil War mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
This mod catapults Empire at War into 2077. It maintains the game's design philosophy, while adding new units, better graphics, and deeper gameplay.
When I first posted an image a year back asking if anyone wanted to support the Executor commission, I thought I'd get shouted down for crowd-funding a starship in a game. Instead, people were more than willing to help, and the Executor commission was funded in a single day. That's where we started the discord server, and it's got to be one of the best mod decisions I ever made.
Now the mega commissions are nearing their end. The Eclipse has been completed and the Executor is getting there bit by bit and already has a test model ingame. The community has been awesome in supporting me and funding these giga projects. Without you guys these ships wouldn't have been built, and I'm very thankful to have such a dedicated and supportive community.
There's been talk on the Discord server ( Discord.gg ) of starting a new project now that the Eclipse has been finished. It's the Sovereign. I want to give the Sovereign the full treatment, that means designing the ship from scratch, into a new and unique Super star destroyer. As with the Executor and Eclipse, this takes time, and I'm basically asking if there is interest on moddb to see this ship come to life in the same quality as the other commissions.
Since this is a complete redesign of the Sovereign, there is no real reference for the ship, it'll take significant time to complete the model and get it ingame. For this reason I think it's fair to set the crowd funding goal at $1000 for this commission. We are discussing the project here: Discord.gg I hope that you think my work justifies the commission cost, and that there is enough support to get started.
Just as for the Eclipse and Executor commission, if you want to support the project, all pledges to the Sovereign go to jer.buis@gmail.com at paypal.
Design wise, the Sovereign dreadnought was meant as a mass-production type super star destroyer equiped with a superlaser.
What I'd like to design, is a mobile superlaser platform that is stripped of all unnecessary systems. A very bare-bones, mobile 15KM starbase (star dreadnought) equiped with the Superlaser, heavy armor, engines, shields, and a few weapons to protect it. In the Remake mod, the Sovereign would be a low (ish) cost, low (ish) production time, super star destroyer equiped with a superlaser, but not a lot of weapons.
This'd be very different from the Eclipse, which is very capable of defending itself. Having the Sovereign in your fleet means playing a huge escort mission for a 15 KM superlaser platform that supports your fleet. The Sovereign itself would have a low commandpoint value, because it is a giga support platform, not a flagship like the Executor or Eclipse. It'll have shields and heavy armor, as well as some token weapons.
So you basically want to design "Palpatines Eye"?
Have you considered the darksaber? It was made by a hutt crime lord but it fits the poorly defended space station description.
Starwars.wikia.com(superweapon)
i dont think thats a good idea. it would fall apart if used once :D but it would make a good random 'problem' or an event for the GC
With the Sovereign-class SSD, the Enpire would become even more op, I rather not do it and concentrate in the other factions
That's actually the great thing about the balance system I've set up for the mod, SSDs are so expensive that even though there can be multiple classes buildable, you can only ever afford a few at most. The SSDs in the mod are costinefficient, just like in the lore the SSDs were wastes of money and resources, so it is in the mod. They are expensive, and take a long time to build. So it doesn't really matter if there is a large selection of SSD classes available, since they are not a standard unit to have, or get for free. It's very unlike other mods, but I think it works really well. If you want an SSD, you can have one, but it'll cost you a fortune, just like it was in SW lore.
True, can't argue with that
But what about AI?
This comment is currently awaiting admin approval, join now to view.
Thing I saw implemented in some mode a long time ago was that SSDs actually kept draining a lot of credits as an upkeep.
That way it wasn't only costly to build one but also to maintain.
This comment is currently awaiting admin approval, join now to view.
Jeroen, completely different subject but, ever thought of joining the COH Galactic Civil wars project? More polycount for you to use your magic on!
Cheers from Rotterdam
I prefer to just stick to eaw honestly, it's what I know and love.
I’m still interested in a Resurgent class Star Destroyer :)
New canon is so stupid...
it's still a pretty ship, even if the guys using it wouldn't be able to find their own ***** with a map, compass and 2 assistants
Agreed. The resurgent is the only thing the First Order actually design competently, but still use it shitly. I imagine that it would be perfect as a flagship for a fleet with ISDs and smaller ships if it was in legends and Imperial made.
> front is a cheese grater so they can launch fighters from there fsr
> instead of going with smaller ships like in the EU, it's huge
> has thousands of weapons, disney going complete retarded with the stats
As your designing a SSD from scratch, I'd love to see what you could make for the consortium, rebels or lesser known star wars factions. Even though SSD's don't fit their ideology.
They don't really have the resources to build an SSD I think, and people generally are less interested in Consortium SSDs than Imperial SSDs, so I stick to those for commissions such as these.
Yh SSD's don't fit the other factions in general. Fair enough about the popularity. But it would be interesting to see what you could make from scratch. [Not being inventive but a giant kedable with a couple of aggressor cannons on it wings immediately comes to mind .... Or a hypervelocity cannon mounted on a mobile space base]
It would be such a laugh though if the Consortium got the Darksaber as like a defensless super laser glass-cannon thing! Minimal shields, minimal armour, a few AA laser batteries and a half strength super laser that would missfire half the time.
What about Death Star II?
The death star is currently in the dev build, it is a 140km DS 1. There's no DS 2 planned currently.
Okay :) Wish there was a Death Star II there. And are you making new Star destroyers? A redo too make them more movie like?
mandator? xD
As in the clone wars version, NOT the newest first order one
If you're building from scratch, why call it the Sovereign?
Because it's still the Sovereign I'm just redesigning the look of the ship to fit the function better.
I feel like if your gonna build a dreadnought make it worth it with a complete arsanal what's the point of having a ship with less weapons than the eclipse but the same super laser it's not worth it at that point but if you increase the cost and make it to where the ship can't hyperspace away I feel like you'd be able to put a large number of weapon systems and it not be OP or build a totally different ship like the assertor I'm sure many people would like to see how you create a ship in the assertor image but it's totally on you this mod is great
make an SSD for other factions, please, the game needs to be more difficult and dynamic for people, we know that other factions would not have resources, but let's ignore this ...
I would really love to be playing with the empire and being attacked by a dreadnought
I really like the Sovereign design over the Eclipse. For my two cents on the subject, would be to put in the Sovereign as originally designed for another SSD choice. The New Republic did have two captured SSDs(Guardian and Lusankya) and the larger Viscount-class star dreadnought.(would help counter the op issue with the Imperial SSDs) While I know the Alliance and New Republic relied more on starfighter/bomber superiority, they did see the need for ships to have slugging matches with SSDs.
I would love to see the Eclipse II