• Strategic Resources Acquisition (Inanimate):
  
  • Basic Extractor - Tier 4 technology. Increases output by 1.
    
  • Advanced Extractor - Tier 5 technology. Increases output by 2.
    
  • Complex Extractor - Tier 6 technology. Increases output by 3.
    
  • Metakinetic Extractor - Tier 8 technology. Increases output by 5.
    
  • Deep Core Extractor - Tier X technology. Increases output by 8.
• Strategic Resources Acquisition (Animate):
  
  • Basic Farm - Tier 4 technology. Increases output by 1.
    
  • Advanced Farm - Tier 5 technology. Increases output by 2.
    
  • Complex Farm - Tier 6 technology. Increases output by 3.
    
  • Metabionic Farm - Tier 8 technology. Increases output by 5.
    
  • Quasibionic Farm - Tier X technology. Increases output by 8.
• Strategic Resources Enrichment\Breeding Projects:
  
  • 1st Generation Enrichment\Breeding Project - Tier 5 technology. 10% chance to avoid any incident. 2 years of built time in total.
    
  • 2nd Generation Enrichment\Breeding Project - Tier 6 technology. 40% chance to avoid any incident. 5 years of built time in total.
    
  • 3rd Generation Enrichment\Breeding Project - Tier 7 technology. 70% chance to avoid any incident. 10 years of built time in total.

• Google Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kxleHn4CMYi6GPfNdH6xc7OnCLFnDJlBGbDuxdzWZqY/edit?usp=sharing

• Assault Armies Classes:
  
  • Infantry Division - low morale, low health, low damage, cheap cost.
    
  • Armored Division - high morale, high health, moderate damage, moderate cost.
    
  • Air Force Division - low morale, low health, very high damage, expensive cost.
    
  • Mech Division - high morale, high health, high damage, very expensive cost.
• Defence Armies Classes:
  
  • Guardian Division - low morale, low health, low damage, cheap cost.
    
  • Turret Emplacements - high morale, high health, moderate damage, moderate cost.
    
  • Artillery Outposts - low morale, low health, very high damage, expensive cost.
    
  • Planetary Strongholds - high morale, high health, high damage, very expensive cost.
• While production of the infantry, tanks, air planes and mechs will require specialized facility for each other, all defensive ground structures (turrets, outposts and strongholds) will require only one facility to be built.
  
• Each army unit will require it's own technology to be researched, in order to be available for production.

• FTL Methods:
  
  • Warp Drive will be renamed into Resonance Warp Drive.
    
  • Hyperdrive will be renamed into Positron Hyperdrive.
    
  • Wormhole Generator won't be renamed.
    
  • Jump Drive will be renamed into Particle Jump Drive.
    
  • Psi Jump Drive will be renamed into Psi-Force Jump Drive.
    
  • Immaterium Warp Drive - a bit slower than standard Particle Jump Drive, much faster then classis Warp Drive and energy efficient. Uses alternative, more efficient and more dangerous warp technology then classic warp. By default has almost zero chance to open Eye of Terror and summon Chaos Gods with their minions, but very prolonged usage increases this chance.
    
  • Quantum Slipstream Drive - very fast, fail-safe and also very energy hungry interstellar travel method. Drive consumes a huge amount of energy to constantly adjust the phase variance of a quantum field in order to maintain stable quantum slipstream.
    
  • Void Rending Hyperdrive - fast and very energy efficient travel method. But makes ship’s hull and components much more fragile. Prolonged usage decreases shields capacity and efficiency up to 50% or 75% (based on current technology level of the race).
    
  • Mass Effect Relay - consumes resources every time, when used. One-way fleet travel method, very high activation speed, but has very limited range. Has nothing to do with Commander Shepard and/or Reapers. Well, at least it doesn’t invite neither of them to our universe.
    
  • Lambda Shifting Drive - fast and energy balanced interstellar travel method that utilizes Lambda sub-space for multiple jumps to reach destination. Prolonged usage makes drive (or Lambda sub-space unstable), which can result in some ships being lost in Lambda sub-space and then reappear in random parts of the galaxy.
    
  • Nexus Tunnel Generator - generates two-way nexus tunnel to the selected location. Requirement of second NTG on the other side is optional, but consumes resources and energy if NTG on the other side isn’t placed. Generation range is high, but still limited.
    
  • Stellar Rift Drive - most advanced and fail-safe interstellar travel technology. Allows ships to travel through created stellar rifts, which instantly and completely close up after ship successfully passed through it. Has equal travel time between any source and destination coordinates, regardless of the range between them. Requires special Einsof Generator (a lot of energy) in order to operate.

To make planets description and spawn in the universe more lore friendly...

• Tomb World - Preliminary analysis shows that current state of this planet possibly is a result of:
  
  1. Thermonuclear war caused by the multiple groups of primitive civilizations previously inhabiting this planet with application high-yield weapons of mass destruction over the entire planet.
     
  2. Unsuccessful first contact between primitive inhabiting civilization and empire controlling outer space. Previously living here primitives probably decided that observation station at this planet's orbit was main enemy base.
     
  3. Planet-wide conversion to an Experimental Weapon Testing grounds with dummy infrastructure, originally belonging to extremely advanced civilization. Dummy infrastructure was required to precisely measure efficiency of tested weapons of mass destruction.
• Cybernetic World - Preliminary analysis shows that current state of this planet possibly is a result of:
  
  1. AI rebellion that happened a long time ago, but was suppressed in the end, leaving this cybernetic world intact only with basic support function.
     
  2. Grey Goo catastrophe (due the planetary bombardment with nano-virus or uncontrollable technological breakthrough), where everything on the planet was consumed and transformed into planet-wide autonomous mechanism, with Grey Goo self-disintegrating or traveling to another galaxy.
     
  3. Planet-wide conversion to an Artificial Factory World constructed by the extremely advanced civilization and managed by completely autonomous systems to support their logistic and/or production requirements.
• Shielded World - Preliminary analysis shows that current state of this planet possibly is a result of:
  
  1. Planet-wide conversion to Highest Security Prison for a criminals that never should hope for a freedom, regardless of what they've done. They might have died a long time ago as well at this world.
     
  2. Planet-wide conversion to isolated reservation or experimental environment for unique species that probably extinct or originally never existed in the first place, and possibly can't exist beyond this planet without complex measures.
     
  3. Ancient Relic Site presence, which is so dangerous that even extremely advanced civilization controlling this planet, deemed it absolutely necessary to enclose it with indestructible planetary shield, so nothing could visit or leave this planet.
• Infested World - Preliminary analysis shows that current state of this planet possibly is a result of:
  
  1. Complete consumption of all possible resources by the swarm-type biological life form that happened a very long time ago, which changed planet's ecosystems to completely hostile for anything.
     
  2. Natural evolution, where amoeba like life from end up being on top of a food chain, thus completely changing planet ecosystem and entire surface into the living being, albeit not a sentient one.
     
  3. Planet-wide conversion to a Biological Weapon Testing grounds that were used so extensively that it completely destroyed original planet ecosystem and replaced it with completely hostile one.
• Shrouded World - Preliminary analysis shows that current state of this planet possibly is a result of:
  
  1. Hyperactive initial psionic particles that eventually got amplified naturally to the terrifying levels and became enough dangerous to tear apart in instant any physical object without specialized protective equipment.
     
  2. Simultaneous and agonizing death of all living beings inhabiting the planet, which resulted in extreme amplification of unstable psionic particles to the point, where they can break apart any physical object on contact.
     
  3. Planet-wide conversion to a Psionics Experimentation Facility, which was used extensively to the point that nothing could contain residual psionic energies that eventually corrupted ecosystem and made it absolutely hostile.

Reserved for genuine Kirov Airship...

Reserved for the Spherical Horse in Vacuum...

Reserved for the Bear Cavalry, Bears with Guns and Bears with Jetpacks...

Discussion about planned features begins here, in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

what i wish'd for, which is really missing in the main game, is the possibility of importing ship designs in new games, since i play most of the time with the same shiptypes and it is really really annoying to craft them every game anew. is it possible to add such a feature?

Originally posted by Cyber Cat:

what i wish'd for, which is really missing in the main game, is the possibility of importing ship designs in new games, since i play most of the time with the same shiptypes and it is really really annoying to craft them every game anew. is it possible to add such a feature?

Can't do anything about game engine.

I can't wait for the rework of the ship classes and the defense stations.
Very nice work by the way, also, thank you so much for the AI rebalance with the bonuses for the high difficulty AI, it finally brings challenge to the game.

I have some questions, what would even be the diffrence between the Corvette and Frigate? Why have things like the Star base and Dreadnought? No one ever uses defencive post and the dreanought would have a lot of armor and shields but be outclassed by the Titan though firepower and the Battleship through speed and evasion.

I would also like to ask how do you plan on doing the 3D models as each upgrade for the ships have more and more slightly diffrent looking 3D secions. And you'd need to make the base from scratch.

Also this means we also would need to change destroyers to have 3 moduals and not two as each ship has one more then the last, thus meaning at the bare minumum you'd need to add 26 new slots with at least 3 moduals each for a total of 78 new parts for the new tech tree, of which 66 have to be made from scratch, and for each race thats 6 normal and 1 for fallen empire, that comes out to 528 new, from scratch models.

All this means is that you need some help to shorten the time.

Originally posted by Nick:

No one ever uses defencive post

I use Defensive stations and they are very helpful if you use them correctly.

Originally posted by play for war:

Very nice work by the way, also, thank you so much for the AI rebalance with the bonuses for the high difficulty AI, it finally brings challenge to the game.

You mean Hard difficulty or Insane one? I boosted both of them, but which of them became challenging for you?

Originally posted by Nick:

I have some questions, what would even be the diffrence between the Corvette and Frigate?

Guns size.

Originally posted by Nick:

Why have things like the Star base and Dreadnought?

Because I want.

Originally posted by Nick:

No one ever uses defencive post

I use. A lot.

Originally posted by Nick:

the dreanought would have a lot of armor and shields but be outclassed by the Titan though firepower and the Battleship through speed and evasion.

Really?

Originally posted by Nick:

I would also like to ask how do you plan on doing the 3D models as each upgrade for the ships have more and more slightly different looking 3D secions. And you'd need to make the base from scratch.

Giovanni is amazing 3D artist, he already done a couple of new 3D models and integrated them for tests in his own dev version of mod.

Originally posted by Nick:

Also this means we also would need to change destroyers to have 3 moduals and not two as each ship has one more then the last, thus meaning at the bare minumum you'd need to add 26 new slots with at least 3 moduals each for a total of 78 new parts for the new tech tree, of which 66 have to be made from scratch, and for each race thats 6 normal and 1 for fallen empire, that comes out to 528 new, from scratch models.

I think I decide it, not you, right?

Originally posted by Nick:

All this means is that you need some help to shorten the time.

No, me and Giovanni are enough. And I don't intent to shorten the time, it's not like I have and deadlines set either.

Sorry if i was being a bit pushy i am just saying that this mod is going to take a lot of time for one to two people.It is an amazing mod already but for the planned features it will take some time.

Sorry for being a little pushy.

All overhaul mods take a lot of time :)

I was talking about the insane one, wich is now really dangerous.