Always great to have an extra pair of hands to help move us closer to the completion line ... thanks for your offer!

Hmm now i have the problem that the game crashes when appling the changes after activating the mod in entrenchment.

Only reboot does help after that. Are there any more restrictions i should be aware of ? ^^

Just simply out of curriorsity, why didn't you guys set the shadows as not being selectable?

I have only been useing the tabletop game as resourses, what are u useing? We are probaply talking same ships just difrent names.

Ships
Shadow (medium)Fighter
Shadow Scout
Shadow Destroyer (scout variant / anti fighter), Stalker?

Shadow Cruiser, young? Has Vortex Disruptor.

Shadow Carrier, has usualy telepath pilot for handling mental stress from so meny fighters. In size/mass just about 10% bigger than cruiser.

Shadow Drednought, ancient? Powerful ship needs a powerful pilot, like P10+? as they are sed to be rare among the younger rases. Wields 2 molecular slicers and Vortex Disruptor. In size/mass 50% bigger than Cruiser.

Energy Cloud/shadow cloud. Energy damping field and planetary core missiles.

Regeneration Outpost. Used to repair and re-energize ships and rest for pilots. Cannot Half-phase or move on its own needs dregnought and special docking manuver to do so.

Abilitys
Half-Phasing, is state between normal and hyperspace. In game stast -30% acelerate / max speed, needs some engine power to maintain. gives a 40/20% ballistic/all miss chance, only coded the all for 40% (looking how to add damage or weapon types to that). 50% harder for u to hit and cant use vortex disruptor( also looking how to disable just 1 ability)

Fighter Bomb, in thinking prosess. Like work as Temporary fighter squad, or insta lounch for your docked squads to designated point in sertain range.

Vortex Disruptor, pretty much star bases ablity to do damage whan enemy ships leave gravwell but to just 1 jumppoint and haveing range.

Energy Damping Field, slows non shadow ships and drops non shadow ROF and enables been targetted by Planetary Core Missiles.

Planetary Core Missiles, can target all but fighter squads. slow ROF but should be able to 1 shot almost anything should be made to prioritize smaller ship first and work up to capitals and lastly planet? to represent the posibility of ships jumping front of the missiles.

well theres what i have had in mind, also building some kind of research tree.

U know meny ways to balance things like costs, build / research times, + shadows way of getting resourses is a bit question atm. Do they work like a pirate player? takeing missions from npc/players, Diplomacy expansion would help there alot. steal money or a innate ability to get resourses from every ship killed like vasari have for capitalships?

In b5 wars shadow ships has very little hull, like 20% of Omegas. Instead they relay on the energy diffuser tendrils that works like SINS shileds (without dam migitation) absorbin grat number of damage and healing that fast. In numbers perspective 150 hull and 300 shield that heals 30 per round.

and beeing vulnerable to telepathic atacks drops theyr speed, cant use weapons, abilitys, hangars and stops shield healing. literaly sitting ducks.

maby put them as planet abilitys? so only shadow player can go pick up a ship from there useing some ability?

Or u mean like landing a ship to planet (even populated)makeing a foothole for shadows?

Not the idea I had in mind, but could be considered one way or the other.

As most of us understand only english and their mothertongue (I think few of them understand german) lets keep this discussion in english.

And please call me by my Nickname.

I do think that shados will be able to take colonies, but I've not yet decided how to allow them to do it. Their role should e to mostly pull the strings behind the scene ithout haveing a huge empire, but when the time comes for all out war, they can help their allies and themselves using the shadow death cloud to eradicate whole empires from the map.

Nice Idea.

I like this idea. Also -100% to trade income since the planet would have to be quarentined

Yes, congrats! That really sounds nice. Though one question, can we prohibit the medical ship from becoming a population booster when it is used on a planet with no virus on it? Or is one of the finishing conditions of the virus fullfilled when the medical ship uses its ability

Sharlin Tex early WIP - ingame screenshot

Model by Fileosoft

nice