Community Mods

— replaced all Human ship models.

— added new types of drones, gunships (police cutters), CR drone defence platforms, CR heavy weapon platforms, DN siege defence platforms, doomstars, cruiser police carriers that carry police cutters in to battle (as fighters).

— over 100 weapons in total. New energy, ballistic, torpedo and missile weapons. Projectors now can mount either a specialized projector weapon, a single heavy beam weapon, a 2-barrelled direct torpedo launcher or a 3-barrelled large weapon.

— new techtree consisting of 19 different tech–branches. Increased research costs to allow for longer usage of low–level techs. Weapon techs are divided into several groups with availability subject to race.

— new effects for race–dependant explosions, missile trails and drives. Death explosions now deal area damage.

— new way of planetary assaults using specialized bomber sections, dropships and 5 new siege weapons. Reduced damage to planetary population (almost 1000 times) of basic weapons. Removed planet missiles to compensate this reduction in damage.

For further details, please check forum entry.

The mod is being constantly updated.

• all sections get new models, plus, new sections
• new weapons, balance tweaks to some existing weapons
• new names, badges and avatars
• new music

Their regular ships are above average in every segment, but not the best at anything and are more expensive. The Battleship mission sections are no way comparable to their normal sections — they are harbringers of doom — but their size, production cost and command point requirements make them difficult to field in greater numbers.

The Phoenix faction uses a modified node drive — compared to stock human drives it has greater range, but is also slower. The upside is that they can reach decent STL speeds and their base node speed gets better with upgrades.

The Phoenix have distinct pros and cons and unique tech and sections.
CONS:

• Low Industry
• High ship costs
• High ship mantainance
• less CP per CNC

PROS:

• Excellent ships
• specialized sections and weapons
• great tech choices.

• Small explosion added when engine sections are destroyed.
• Size of the deployment field in the fleet manager made larger.
• Space between letters and between class name and ship type reduced to improve readability for longer ship names.
• Background color of the fleet manager made brighter to save you from eye–cancer.
• Weapons rebalanced to complement each other

New Weapons include (see forum for more details): High Explosive Torpedo / Light Railgun / Heavy Railgun / Heavy Missile / Missile Battery

General changes:

• Increased distance of Tactical Start Positions
• Various Shielding changes
• Increased Default Tactical Sensor and Tactical Jammer Range
• Increased Ship Chase Range
• Increased Moon odds
• Decreased Asteroid Belt odds
• Asteroid Belts further out
• Increased Scuttle Boost Bonus
• Increased Swarm Launch Delay and Swarmer Numbers
• Changed Start position for Random Encounters
• Increased Weapon Ranges
• Various Ship Section changes
• Increase Gate Traffic Capacity
• Various Effect Changes

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• Point Defense Missiles v1.1.1 — Adds anti–torpedo missiles
• Flame Thrower v1.0 — Gives the plasma cannons flamethrower like effects
• Laser Realism v0.6 — Turns all laser weapons, including phasers, into beam weapons
• Range Finder v1.0 — Enhances weapon, sensor, and visual ranges in tactical combat. Also incorporates Laser Realism, as well as a few other tweaks
• Missile Gauss Enhance v1.0 — Changes the missile trail to something more visible and changes the appearance of the gauss rounds.
• more in development

• Azimuth (firing angles) of all fixed heavy beams increased to ±5 °.
• Firing Range of all heavy beams increased by factor 2.
• Hiver gate amplification increased from 6 to 10.
• Probability of PD tech increased to Human:95 Zuul:85 Hiver:95 Tarkas:95 Liir:99.
• All launching torpedo sounds replaced by Battlestar Galactica Cylon Raider sound (new series).

• All research costs, especially weapons research costs, are greatly decreased. You can get full tech in a 40–stars game now.
• In general, weapons are more specialized. Anti–ship weapons are stronger against ships and weaker against planets, anti–planet weapons are stronger against planets.
• In general, ships and planets die a lot faster... planetary sieges should not be long and drawn out as often as before.

Torpedo's are now missiles. Except the 'antimatter' one. That's now the original plasma torpedo, and it hurts... Lasers are now beams, which means that for the time being the Reflective Armour upgrades have had to be removed. Some of the exotic techs (absorbers, Meason Shields etc) have been removed, and all research is a lot longer now. Teching up is now much slower than before. This is to encourage longer games. Humans, to counter the upgrades they have received, have had costs increased on the effected sections, and have lower chances of getting the higher level energy weapons.

• System Killer => Death Star
• Puppet Master => Borg Cube
• Von Neumie => Necron Tomb Ship
• Swarmers => Cylon Base Star
• Asteroid Monitor => Super Colony Ship (Not famous just a cool idea)
• Slavers => ID4 Aliens
• Derelict1 => Titan AE "Junk Base" (the ones that held humanities survivors)
• Derelict2 => Moo3 Guardians
• Derelict3 => Sa-Matra (asteroid shell to be tested)
• Derelict4 => ???
• Derelict5 => ???

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For example, command points for running a fleet, some repair ability to keep your ships in decent condition, and say the refinery ability, not the tanks per say, but the ability to generate fuel for the ships in the fleet.