Plug for possible Sins roleplaying game.

Okay, back to OP

The advent Titan should be able to deploy a "comunications jammer" in a gravity well.  It stops the spread of enemy culture completely.  It doesn't just repel it with friendly culture, like others say the advent Titan should (because it should).  I know that a broadcast staion "stops" enemy culture, but it doesn't really.  If they had more broadcast stations than you do, their culture would bypass yours.  The communications jammer cuts off enemy culture from passing through the gravity well.  Friendly culture does not come from this building.  It does not help push enemy culture away from the gravity well.  Wadduyathink?

Hmmm, I think I found the perfect Titan for the Vasari...  It eats planets

OMG that's epic!

Finally, the Vasari: the hyper-aggressive Loyalists can no longer sit still and wait for the still-unnamed threat that chased them into TEC space to catch up with them, so they're focused on mobility. They can upgrade their capital ships to produce money, supply, and research, and their Titan can function as a mobile capital world (and also summon Dark Fleet ships). Once they have that, they have no more need for planets, so they can strip them of every shred of resources and leave behind nothing but a dead, uninhabitable asteroid. They're the only faction that's able to keep on fighting with no colonized planets at all. Frazer says it's a risky strategy, though -- you have to be on strong economic footing to successfully pull up your roots, so you can't do it too early.

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion/1219036p1.html

I'm not a big fan of the starfish shape.... If modding is improved in this release, I think I'm going to make that planet eating ship in Sins.  I'll just fold it legs in front and leave a nice big mouth to chew on planets for afar

I have never tried modding.  I have never even downloaded any mods.  What do they do to the code that the game has?  Right now, for me, they are shrouded in mystery and are unknown.  Please enlighten me, so that my face can be like this:

Go to the mods section, and find a mod that looks interesting.  Follow the instructions, activate it in the game menu, and be

From amazement:   to happiness:   to love of the mod:

Is that it?

Depends on what kind of mod you're looking for.  Some radically change the base game like Equilibrium and Distant Stars, Sins of a Galactic Empire and Stargate: Invasion are total conversions, and Sins of the Fallen is a content-expansion mod that stays close to the basic Sins balance and preserves the original races.

That about sums it up. 

Visit Rick's galaxy and moddb to look at some of the mods that are released and those that are works in progress. 

http://ricksgalaxy.homestead.com/links.html

http://www.moddb.com/games/sins-of-a-solar-empire/mods

yup, you got it figured out

Okay, well what about the code that makes up the game?  Are those changed permenatly?  Or can I activate the mods like I can with DLC?  Like, turn them on and off?  I need answers.

You can enable and disable mods easily in the Mods panel of the games' main menu. Your games source code will remain unchanged, because modified files are located elsewhere on your computer. So no need to worry about files being overwritten.

What kind of mods are there?  Cool units?  Abilities?  Guass cannons shooting space ponies?  Anything people can think to invent?

From biggest to smallest.

The total conversion mods (Sins of a Galactic Empire, Sacrifice of Angels 2) have taken out the base factions and replaced them with their own factions, units and abilities that can play quite different from normal Sins.

Other mods like Star Wars: Requiem and Maelstrom add new factions/units/abilities etc. within the framework of the original game.

Gameplay mods like Distant Stars and Enhanced 4X Mod add new content to the existing races but don't add any new factions.

More specific mods like bailknight's graphic mod or Sins Plus add new graphics/planets without changing anything else (these mods are often included in the bigger mods).

This is probably the best list of currently released mods out there, but like anywhere you'll need to make sure they've been kept up to date.

Rebel Vasari Titan:
1) The ability to jump at any phase well (without a navy escort.)
2) The acceleration of the phase jump to accompany the fleet.

3) Disable "input" and "output" of the gravity well for some time.

Thanks, Geofan.

Advent Titans:

A random number of ships (frigates, corvettes, bombers, fighters, .. maybe even capital ships) and buildings (guns, hangars, etc.) pass time under the control of Advent. It can be combined with the capture of the planet.

Случайное число кораблей (фрегаты, корветы, бомбардировщики, истребители, .. возможно даже основные корабли) и зданий (пушки, ангары и прочие) переходят ВРЕМЕННО под контроль Advent. Это можно совместить с захватом планеты.

Advent is good in the hangars. I think one of the Titans will be strong as an aircraft carrier. Then it can be the ability to "support for Homing Mines" to strengthen and add the Titan.

( Hangar Defense can build Homing Mines Squadrons that can deploy into Homing Mine fields)

Advent хороши в ангарах. Думаю один из Титанов будет силён как авианосец. Тогда можно умение "производство самонаводящихся мин" усилить и добавить Титану.

Auto resurrection. In the capital ship Advent is the ability to resurrect. Can you add him as a Titan? For example, after the death of titanium absorbs all nearby allied ships standard (non-capital ships) and restored (to recharge the ability to take time). Or, after building anew, he already has gained previous experience. Or is he at the time of death is able to shoot themselves in the other phase well (the Union), and resurrect it.

Авто воскрешение. У столичного корабля Advent есть умение воскрешения. Можно ли его как то добавить Титану? К примеру Титан после гибели поглощает все находящиеся рядом обычные союзные суда (не столичные корабли) и восстанавливается (для перезарядки способности нужно время). Или после постройки заново он уже имеет накопленный ранее опыт. Или он в момент гибели способен выстреливать собой в другой фазовый колодец (союзный) и там воскрешаться.

Vasari Titans:

Immersion objective (friendly or hostile. Or even the Titan) in the subspace. In the example of the enemy base, or an enemy Titan, or yourself (for healing and regrouping).
Погружение цели (дружеской или враждебной. или даже самого Титана) в подпространство. На пример вражескую базу, или вражеского Титана, или самого себя (для залечивания ран и перегруппировки).

Passive absorption of antimatter surrounding the enemy ships.

Пассивно поглощать антиматерию из окружающих вражеских кораблей.

I'm just not seeing anything in Rebellion that other mods haven't already done and with less complexity.  Black holes, Spatial Rifts, Spawning fleets, time dilation, capturing frigs/caps/modules, dedicated anti-starbase ships that can phase out starbases, area affect weapon rof/range nerfs, and oh dear... abilities that render the enemy impotent with fear...  Nope, no mods have ever done that

  damn, did I just say that out loud?  Oh well, modders will just get hold of Rebellion and mod the hell out of it or take the meshes, rewrite the hardpointing and put them in Entrechment/Diplomacy before serious modding of Rebellion happens.

I haven't seen that they have forbidden using Rebellion meshes/textures in Trinity.  I'll open a new thread here in Rebellion asking just that.

Someone from StarClad respond on this now because I for one plan to just to do it. 

A channeling ability to shut down a phase lane might be cool. But the titan shouldn't be able to do anything else while its doing this, and it has to be on one side of the gravity well. Let it not take any antimatter to channel, but have an initial cost. Would be cool for changing the map (at a great cost, since if the enemy is going to attack you somewhere else instead, your titan is still somewhere else channeling!

Dont know who I would give it to, just sounds neat. And make that grav well immune to the vasari thing that makes a lane.