I'm working around the issue on this by creating a "Flagship" class capital ship. Flagships are stronger more durable versions of thier standard capital ship counterpart that cannot be built from the capital ship factory.

From what I can see is the current "Flagship" designation is arbitrary after the game starts and as you said tends to shift from ship to ship. It also doesn't appear to have any impact on the game.

I plan to remove the built-in "Flagship" designation in the str file so I don't have "Flagship Jarrasul class Flagship" showing instead of simply "Jarrasul class Flagship" (See example below). This will also prevent Flagship from showing on non-flagship class ships.

Zomb, might I suggest you put pics in that you can enlarge? I can't even read the text on that small screenshot looking pic

Yeah, say your using an upload site... like imageshack or another, you have several links, when you goto put an image up in your posts I think your suppose to put the direct link in. This basically allows the forum here to cut down the size and when you click on said image it opens it up fully all the way

This is a good idea. I might look at the abilities on each ship and see if there is atleast one that could be extended for additional fleet support.

Is it possible to combine this mod with Distant Stars. I have been trying to do that now since the mod came out and to no avail. thanks for any future response.

This seems really cool.

DLing now. 

edit:

 I find it odd that the flag ships take only 50 fleet supply... i suppose the fact that you get only one makes up for it.

so... I started, and immediatly paused, and saw your spawner.   and i got a sova.

So, to compare I bought a sova, and... it seems that their initial stats are identical (except for the flagship having 4x the firepower)... same hp, same shields, but, hehe, bigger. 

You havent messed with abilities yet it seems, cause i both gave em missle batteries, and they both seemed equally powerfull.

Havent leveled them up yet to compare leveling... i guess i could just look at the raws.... seems like you doubled everything cept the shield mitigation.... woop! you missed the culture repel rate on the kol.  (havent checked the other factions)

You may want to tweak the flagship stats to balance with DS if you do this.

I was thinking, what if you removed the 3 lvl cap on the main abilities, so that you could focus type each capital ship(this could be easily abused but) say after each level beyond the 3rd could decrease -and cost, or for passives like the incendiary and the energy thing for the Halcyon carrier could increase by a lesser percentage, making the max damage of the incendiary 10dmg  second and the energy attack rate upped by 25/35%? that or the repair skills to the vasari and the TEC's supports gaining a longer duration/ heal amount, along those lines. There could be new Beam focused fleets, heavy damage focus, or even higher survivability to counter act one another, it would just depend on who got what. And for the seemingly worthless antimatter eater abilities like the "peek" ability the Advent have, could eventually reduce the antimatter cost to 0 and increase the cool-down or reduce it to a point it won't devour your entire antimatter bar if you forget to deselect auto-fire and make it SOMEWHAT useful. That's just an idea thou, maybe something to just implement into the flagships maybe. Give them that "unbeatable super weapon" you see now and again in animes and such

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yeah that's basically what I am doing with that Kol model you gave me

and no it is not a DS project

repeat NOT A DISTANT STARS PROJECT

personal

though I wouldn't mind finding something for the Vasari or Advent

I think thats a cool idea. As you know I really like the Kol model you did. The ship pack is a good idea too.

This mod seems to have captured the interested of a few people based on the dl count. It's appeal maybe because it's simplicity.

Version 0.03 Release Notes:

1. Fixes Psi battleship shield per level increase. (3600->360)
2. Fixes Tech battlship culture repel rate. (.05->.10)
3. Main menu title changed to reflect Flagship mod and version
4. English.str modified to remove old Flagship designation.

Todo:

1. Tweak starting stats for capital ships. Thinking only a small increase is needed to help differentiate the starting flagship versus a capital ship.
2. Improve abilities on flagships. Not sure how far to go here. I think minor improvements to the existing abilities may be the way to go. I don't want to complicate things too much as this is intended to only be a min-mod.

That or you could DL a pirated version of the beta version(can find about anything on the net these days)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Pv7TtV8js&feature=related <--closer look (original Stardock trailer lol, nice 'eh?)

I still stand by my suggestion for making the abilities increase in lvl for the flagship rather than make new ones all together(that and you might tweak the lvl 6s a bit to keep up) but say make all of the regular skills go to a max or 5 or 6, increasing what they need, decreasing other such things. Ex: Incendiary lvl 3 = (15?) dmg a second increase to 25 at lvl 5 30 for lvl 6.  Something along those lines for them, I'm not sure if the 3lvl max is hardcoded though or if doing it for one may change it for all ships of the type, either way, removing the use and waist of skill points for skills you find pointless or useless in the current fight would make things quite interesting.

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