Eh, I think I'll leave the Pirates off. Too annoying anyway. I mean, realistically, space pirates would not be that much of a threat. What real space pirates would do, I think, is attack and pillage anyone who comes into their territory. Not raid someone every 8 minutes. Although I think they do need some sort of capital ship.

Pirates are fun now, IMO.  Their early raids are quite manageable.  They also have a maximum stat ceiling and come with more econ disruption skills than before.  Pirate missions are also preset levels now, and limited by the threat level bar.  This means you don't have the 100+ ship raids anymore where each ship is stronger than a capital ship and functions like an Ogrov against your structures.  Against the AI though... the Ebay bidding system still heavily favors the player.  But at least in team games the AI bids on each other if they don't see the player as the biggest threat.  That is a huge annoyance factor lifted.

I also noticed that the AI won't always betray the player in unlocked games with fewer allied victors than the current number of players in play.  I'm not sure if the Pacts played a role in the selection or not, but that would be a nice feature.  Of course it also allows you to horribly backstab the different AI factions as they wear each other down whining for your help. 

This is going to sound reallly thick as never encoutered an update and having to fix a mod, i've downloaded the full race mod which is 6 races so i can tweak them, what file is it i've got to look at to fix it so it works?? i've worked out i need to delete some abilitypirateflak entitys and such as its looking for those files and it cant find them, but whats this with the questline? whcih file am i putting it into?

The underlined names are the types of files you have to change. The ability changes shouldn't break a mod but you can use now use those in making your own abilities now.

Entity Manifest

Added

entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_ARMOR2.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_WEAPONS2.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_HPMAX2.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_HYPERSPACE_CHARGEUPTIMEDECREASE.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_ARMOR3.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_WEAPONS2.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_HPMAX3.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_ARMOR4.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_WEAPONS4.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_HPMAX4.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_FINAL_UPGRADE.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_WEAPONRANGE.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_ABILITYACCESS_EMBARGO.entity"
entityName "BuffAbilityGuidanceSelf.entity"
 

Removed

entityName "AbilityPirateFlakBurst.entity"
entityName "AbilityPirateIncendiarySlug.entity"
entityName "AbilitySprintPirate.entity"
entityName "BuffPirateIncendiarySlugTarget.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_WEAPONSCOOLDOWNS1.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_REGEN1.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_ABILITYACCESS_SPRINT.entity"
entityName "RESEARCHSUBJECT_PIRATE_ABILITYACCESS_INCENDIARY_SLUG.entity"
 

GameInfo

GameInfo files that have been changed

SoundEffects.sounddata

Added 4 missing SoundEffects entries and updated the count.

effect
    name "UI_COMMON_CANNONBUILT"
    fileName "Common_CannonBuilt.ogg"
    type "Effect"
    is3D FALSE
    priority 255
    threshold 0.000000
    minAttenuationDist 0.000000
    maxNumPlayingSimultaneously 1
    isLooping FALSE
    isResident FALSE
    minRespawnTime 0.1
    fadeInTime 0.0
    fadeOutTime 0.0
    alternateGroup ""
effect
    name "GENERIC_WEAPONFIRE"
    fileName "Weapon_GenericFire.ogg"
    type "Effect"
    is3D TRUE
    priority 5
    threshold 30000.000000
    minAttenuationDist 1500.000000
    maxNumPlayingSimultaneously 6
    isLooping FALSE
    isResident TRUE
    minRespawnTime 0.1
    fadeInTime 0.0
    fadeOutTime 0.0
    alternateGroup ""
effect
    name "EFFECT_PhaseCloak"
    fileName "Effect_PhaseOutHull.ogg"
    type "Effect"
    is3D TRUE
    priority 5
    threshold 40000.000000
    minAttenuationDist 2000.000000
    maxNumPlayingSimultaneously 3
    isLooping FALSE
    isResident FALSE
    minRespawnTime 0.1
    fadeInTime 0.0
    fadeOutTime 0.0
    alternateGroup ""
effect
    name "WEAPON_PHASECAPITALWAVEMEDIUM_MUZZLE_ALT1"
    fileName "Weapon_PhaseCapitalWaveMedium_Muzzle_Alt1.ogg"
    type "Effect"
    is3D TRUE
    priority 5
    threshold 23000.000000
    minAttenuationDist 800.000000
    maxNumPlayingSimultaneously 5
    isLooping FALSE
    isResident TRUE
    minRespawnTime 0.1
    fadeInTime 0.0
    fadeOutTime 0.0
    alternateGroup ""
 

Mesh

Fixed Bad Mesh Points found by Major Stress and myfist0

Fixed Bad Texture Links found by Major Stress and myfist0

Particle

Removed all the extra address sections from texture links. Found by Major Stress

PipelineEffect

The White Dots Issue

String

Added Strings, Updated Count +3

StringInfo
    ID "IDS_GAMEMESSAGE_QUESTENDED"
    Value "Your mission from %s has ended because %s has been defeated"

StringInfo
    ID "IDS_GAMEMESSAGE_PLAYERPIRATEQUESTCOMPLETED"
    Value "Yarr mission successful matey!"

StringInfo
    ID "IDS_RELATIONSHIPINFOCARD_TRADEBONUSLABEL"
    Value "Trade Bonus:"

Changed these Strings to...

StringInfo
    ID "IDS_RESEARCHSUBJECT_ABILITYACCESS_SPEEDBUILDMODULE_DESCRIPTION"
    Value "Grants Assembly Drones the Communal Labor allowing them to collaboratively build structures at a faster rate."

StringInfo
    ID "IDS_ABILITY_ABILITYGUIDANCE_DESCRIPTION"
    Value "Boosts the mental focus of nearby crews, allowing them to reduce ability cooldowns by operating more efficiently."

StringInfo
    ID "IDS_ABILITY_SPEEDBUILDMODULE_DESC"
    Value "Allows assisted construction of orbital structures, accelerating their completion."
 

Window

HUDIcon-Planet.brushes

Added Brush

brush
    name "HUDICON_PLANETBONUS_WEAPONSTESTGROUNDS"
    content "Simple"
    fileName "PlanetBonuses"
    pixelBox [ 27 , 75 , 22 , 22 ]
 

LoadScreen.brushes

Removed Brush

brush
    name "LoadScreenPictureEntrenchmentBeta"
    content "Simple"
    fileName "Loadingbackdrop_entrenchment_beta"
    pixelBox [ 0 , 0 , 1027 , 768 ]
 

LoadScreen.window

Added Tip ID and Count

tipCount 36

tip "IDSLoadScreenTip35"

Wow, that's quite a list myfist.

I'll put a link to that in the topic, as that would be a lot to scroll through just to see the posts.

Bookmark links to new weebly page http://soase.weebly.com/diplomacy-12.html with a few minor changes. I will expand on a few of the changes but will only update the weebly now. Feel free to put the above table in the OP if you wish.