Star Wars: Ascendancy mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

I tend to prefer responding to this kind of more in-depth stuff like this on the forums because of character limits and how poorly structured ModDB comment sections are, but I'll try to address your as much as I can with our general approach:

There's no ay to have more than the two collectable resources, but I'm not sure that we'd want more anyways. We've already got durasteel and tibanna gas, which are the two main requirements for anything, and even then there's a challenge to design a system which makes each valuable without making them either too rare to ever do anything, or too common to be meaningless. The more you add to that may add depth in some ways, but it's also adding a lot of background noise for the player to keep track of which detracts from more meaningful choices.
To some the approach we're taking may seem a bit more minimalist because there's some instances (with research options for example) where we're technically going to have fewer options, but our goal has been so far to make as many meaningful choices that last throughout the game as possible rather than have a higher number of smaller, less meaningful or even meaningless choices (ie we won't require research to colonize planet types for example, but in the base game that wasn't so much a choice as a tool to actually put off meaningful research choices)

Ok, thanks for letting me know. I'll switch over to asking on the forums. I've already got an account, so that makes more sense.

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As far as economics go, I don't think I'd agree that Sins is especially deep. The basic formula is really just spam trade ports and research all the upgrades then you're golden, and by a little bit into the game you're producing resources faster than you can use them. There's some stuff we want to try to do, but we can't be sure how well any of it will work.

As for the units and factions, that's where a lot of our thought thus fas has gone. One of our main goals with factions is to make sure each has its own specific feel instead of just being effectively reskins with a few weird annoying, and anti-fun mechanics. This goes into how unit lists are designed, as well as the research options available to each faction. This'll be explained more as we go along though.

A question for your development team if you will indulge, Will this mod also be able to work with the new SoSE Rebellion dlc that just came out? It seems to add several new world types and an actual choice between worlds for either economy or industrialization. Will your mod take this into consideration?

We'd rather just make it compatable with both so people don't require the DLC. I haven't looked to closely at it yet, but the DLC doesn't like like much that modders couldn't already do anyways, so I'm not sure if it's worth making people buy it.

Fair enough, from what I have seen with the dlc itself, it does not seem to have a drastic effect on the game play itself, mearly the worlds, which didnt have much effects in the first place other than deciding what to build in ordit. I was simply wondering if that was something that you could mod in, maybe for a map or something. Think of it along the lines of finding a seperate nebula on the map that has an immensely high ship production rate. Similar to say, where they would have built the Katana Fleet for instance. Just a thought.

Thanks for the speedy reply Corey!

I am more than satisfied with how the units look and are coming about. You folks deserve all the praise for that because it's freakin amazing what you guys have done so far. I've had many a nerdgasm from happening on a new screenshot. I simply can't wait. And if that's where most of your energy has gone so far, fair enough, I can only imagine the kinds of work that goes into coding a digital model. I've heard it's stupidly time consuming and if I could donate without it being illegal I would :/

About the economics: I think you're probably right about it not being particularly deep. But when I made that comment I was simple comparing it to EAW where the most you could do was steal credits and tech, and build one type of mining facility (space mining wasn't even there in galactic conquest.) It was fine for it's time though. I find Sins having multiple mining options and an actual sim of a market refreshing compared to EAW. I know you guys don't want to promise something that isn't going to be in the final cut but is it possible engine wise to have more than just two mine-able resources? So like, Tibanna gas, Lommite, Neutronium, the various crystals etc. And then to balance them within the market? Or would you have to use another mechanic like finding artifacts/resources? I'd just think it would be awesome to have Bespin be valuable for the canonical reason and for it to have an actual impact on the market. I don't expect any of this to be in the final cut, I'm really just shooting s*** with you man. Thanks again for the quick reply! :)