That you have to actually mess with the research entity files.

I can whip one up if you want. How high do you want to take it?

That'd be cool.  Maybe double the caps at each level?

Very much appreciated!  I'll give it a try later tonight

Not confident in this answer, and I'm not sure it's going to be all you need to do, but you could rummage around in the sounds file for the mod and delete/move the files with names like "Vasari Theme" or "Trouble 1" and the like, but I'm not sure if you'd have to do something with the entity file too. I'm still new to modding, the most I've done was define the .user file so people can further alter settings that aren't included in the options UI. Still trying to get it to fit wide-screen actually, I know it's in there but any changes i make turn to crash with the resolution ~_~

Unrelated: I HATE ATI PROGRAMMERS AND THEIR HALF ASS EFFORTS AT UPDATES!!!    The latest update(snuck in with a windows update) KILLED the Catalyst Control Center so I have NO control over my vid card's settings!!! it might as well be a damned on-board chip-set vid-card now >.<   DAMN YOU AMD!!!! I WANT nVidia BACK!!!!

Ahem.....k I'm done

P.S. : their answer to the many questions of what went wrong on their site is "We are not sure what is broken inside the update".......they really posted something like that.......Amazing PR guy they got there....Maybe next we'll get a post saying that "we are unsure why AMD stocks have plummeted overnight".....yeah group of geniuses work there, you can tell.

^ Indeed ... *whistles*

I have never seen that pic before, and I still love Homeworld too!

Ask Carbon, I think he put the new music in.

mini-dumped*groans* own fault, nothin mod related(I clicked an icon too much too fast, windows 7 took it as"oh it broke DESTROY!!" -.-;;   ) i was enjoying black-5 too ;O just finished "starbaseing" all the suns for a 67.5 trade from each , completely ignored by AI =3  

anywho........huh......didn't really have any comments to make besides that............eh *shrugs and shuffles to the kitchen for coffee*

EDIT: *sipping coffee* I FOUND something to post, did some irrelevant roaming, don't worry I didn't necro anything, dead threads should stay that way ;O. Anyhow there was an idea kind of "produced" in conversation in a thread of "ancient phase gates" and I thought of that"ancient hung of log thing" planet you guys have...but don't put to much use and thought, what if you replaced that, or used a mesh similar to it's style and made a phase gate all could use. Wormholes are great and all but, they aren't too sexy anymore(plus by a scientific point of view, they look like black holes) anyhow it was mentioned setting it's target to all types neutral,enemy,ally but I was thinking, what if you could colonize it as well? or in another approach, just have them appear randomly like asteroids in random gravity wells, give them a "condition" for activation and you have to build an extractor on it/near it/have it attached TO an asteroid even like the Cowboy Bebop/Outlaw Star animes(ahh sweet childhood).

again, just ideas for stuff to make the game a little more interesting.

would be nice if you could select the destination in -game but I know that's kind of an impossibility, unless you make it a super weapon with instant effect, specific targets(same type other than self) and give it a realistic cool-down maybe a planetary ability. dunno, I just spitball ideas around and they land here lol but it doesn't have to be something super-massive or over complicated, you could just replace one of the planet types you already added, throw in an ability, 0 upgrades unless you want tactical,which would make sense, you would wanna keep your shiny artifact of instant travel safe, but all other values at 0 with no chance of change short of throwing a starbase in there to supplement population/trade depending on the race. With 0 population there shouldn't be any funky elevators making strange appearances(though on the "unity starbase" they look neat with the traffic and all).

Oh, Idea you could make something like the wormhole colonize-able and add the ability mentioned, and make whatever form you want the gate to take into a particle instead of throwing in an entire model, though that might be just as difficult >.>

True, i suppose it would make more sense to have set exits to gate like that, easier to implement that way too. But hey, there's an idea for the stargate guys and their mod lol. Think changing the wormhole mesh into a gate of some kind would work then? Wormholes do have a rotation though you can't really see it*wonders if removing that rotation could save a slight bit of memory in-case there's "faces" to a wormhole* Though you may have to throw the particle on it's side and have it rotate like that, maybe sink it under the center line a bit so ships won't pass through "solid" pieces of gate. maybe you could use the atmosphere layer to place the particle mesh while leaving the wormhole-whatzits in tact and get rid if it's un-sexy sparkles and gas, or just the gas(purple-ish blue crap floating into the center). aaaand I have been awake almost 28 hours now.....I'm worried i may only be creative when I'm exhausted seeing as all my posts that have some relative sense and or ideas to them only happen around this time >.>     should probably get coffee..need to stay awake till 7 at least.........darn bookstore and college.....break took too long, my sleep schedule got all wonky -.-;;

Edit: I went and had a good idea for a cap or flagship but i think it would be kind of tedious to implement. Any race would fit it since they all use beams but fine tuning it is coming up kinda muddy in my head. the idea is based off a merge between missile barrage and cleansing brilliance, but no 360 range, only one direction, randomly selected multiple targets, those between the targets and the craft(in the path of the beam) will suffer equal damage as the target so it's more of a level six skill than a 1-3. Anyway, if it's too powerful you could cause the ship to suffer something as a cost of usage, maybe 10% hull lost(intense head from the weapon's discharge deforming the barrels[yay homeworld comic posted above]). I could see this happening for a TEC vessel since, historically humans have erred more towards"Take you with me" but Advent are kind of like that too in an, extremist revenge sort of way. Basically it's a skill for an act of desperation, you could make it's damage high and take more hull or all anti-matter, something like this needs a very long cool-down so it can't be abused, and if possible a usage condition for the hull to already be at about 50% as to make it useful in desperate situations. Sorry if all this is impossible but I got to thinking about it when I was reading a bit of the lore again and looking over a few more forums. You could give each race it's own version of this for balance sake. The Flagships are high-power to begin with so a normal level 6 would seem like a mundane upgrade on a capital ship. Was thinking this might make things a little interesting with "lose your ship and take theirs with you and keep the planet, or run to fight again later." Besides, you think any human's gonna run seein that Vasari monster floating around their home, ready to practice their drawing abilities on the face of their planet with a high powered bombardment lazer? pssh They'd smack a starbase into it if they could but this seems more within the realm of possibilities, for any of the races

THIS HAS BEEN ANOTHER WALL OF TEXT BROUGHT TO YOU BY ME!!!! THANK YOU!!*falls off stage into the band*

even in stargate you need 2. And having one that could exit anywhere would make the Vasari super weapon less super. I would say just rehash the wormhole coding with a capture function, like a derelict mine. Poof, done.

OMG please tell me where you are getting those comic strips!

Also, and I am sorry if this was already asked, but will this mod be further developed for the Rebellion expansion?

Your devoted fan, Aliksander