So, here's my suggestion to the map.

#1 - Take a few of the models and boost up size. Just slightly. At the moment, a star destroyer fades out with a zoom level or two. 10-20% increase, or so. If that's easily done with the meshes :/
#2 - Repeat with planets, if possible - much larger difference, though. A 30-50% size increase would be great.
#3 - Real gameplay changes here - take the Victory 1, and the second Imp 1, the cheap empire caps, and reduce them to large cruisers. Take the smaller large cruisers, and reduce them to frigates. Take the SSD and it's variations, a command cruiser and a carrier version, and use them as capital ships. Also, take the Death Star as an expensive capital ship, that uses abhorrent amounts of supply and resources to make. This has the effect of not directly limiting the smaller star destroyers on the scale as the large ones - they would be extremely expensive relative to the other cruisers, though.
#4 - Force the cap ships to cost money at the start. This serves a double purpose - no death stars at the start, and forcing you to build an empire - not start an empire running around with an SSD or something.

So, yeah - these are immediate suggestions that are coming to me.

Or perhaps, lore wise, you had lost the crews and training facilities to train said crews on different ships. So technically you aren't researching how to build said ship, but train crews for it (which is additional research).

I seem to remember in one of the Thrawn trilogy Pellaeon was thinking about the loss of the Executor and how all the best officers and crewman were on it when it exploded (smart idea, eh?), just to give an example.

And nice to see you on the forums again Para.

yes indeed but the rebels have only the mon calemari cruisers wich can't beat the Executor perhaps they must think of something to balance that

like you said in te movie the ship was destroyed by a fighter that fly in the bridge so that was a pure lucky event for the rebels

Well Spoken Captain Picard lol EmperorParadox hihi.

Personal i like Kirk better, first shoot, ask questions later hehehe

That's awesome, I am curious to see if he'd be able to release an approximate list, it'd be great to see. The balances will be good - I was just throwing out my own suggestions on how to balance them a bit. Good idea on the research specs, too.

As far as zooming goes... it's not the problem of controlling the ships, it's seeing the whole battle. Jumping around from group to group to see how each manages isn't effective to manage large scale tactics. Being able to see the whole grav well, allows you to see much more and determine the tactics better. Plus, I like using macro much more than micro.

OH - a bug from the over-large grav wells, too - if you don't change the settings for the distances between planets, it's fairly frequent to have overlapping grav wells. This means ships actually travel into the grav well (in the case I remember most, you could go all the way to the other planet) and attack ships in that system. However, to actually enter the system, you went to the end of the first, and jumped backwards to the edge of the other grav well. And then recrossed the same space you just went through. Thought I'd mention this, not sure of how to fix it, except to make sure planets are far apart in random maps.

Ok, so this is probaby my first forum post ever...so bear with me.

First off, EvilleJedi...I'm loving the beta. Granted, there are a few issues with the balancing, but only when comparing the empire's ships to the ships of the other factions, though I'm sure someone has already discussed this ( I've read through the posts...but my memory sucks).

Now, I know I'm going to be harassed for this but...the consortium did have one thing going for them: the fighters. I loved the Viper fighter ever since I first saw it in Shadows of the Empire for the N64 (I'm still hunting for a toy or model verion >.<). I'm not asking for that to be in the game, nor am I trying to back up EaW:FoC. I'm just saying that I loved the fact that they had pu that fighter in the game.

Thgat all out of the way, I have two question for EvilleJedi: would you, could you, release a sort of 'beta 1.5' with one of the other factions as well as the Empire? Also, Will you be including some materials from Sins Plus, like the new planets and/or some of the tech ( ability to colonize gas planets? Cloud City anyone?).

Though I have a feeling some has already touched on these points, my memory sucks and I'm too lazy to double check (I'd probably just forget again, anyway). So if I am just repeating what others have said, I appologize.

When the A-wing crashed into the bridge the executer temporarily lost control. But temp. was enough time for gravity to do its magic. The ssd was lost primarily to emperial arrogance. underestimating rebel snubfighters and navigating too close to the second death star...

looks as a bigger class then the mon calemari cruiser seems good

are there any plans for a venator or a clone wars mod at all?

but there is a venator mesh in the files yet I cant build it.

If there were ships available from points in the Star Wars universe that took place, say, after the first Death Star, or even the second, should the empire really only have TIE fighters? What about the interceptors or other fighters devloped throughout the civil war? The same thing goes with the rebelion: what about the b-wing? Would there be a way to upgrade your fighter/ bomber squadrons to more recent fighter/ bomber models? I'm not trying to make more wrk for you, EvilleJedi and co., I'm just saying that perhaps such things should be considered. Hell, maybe you could even, when making up the rebel fighter squadrons, mix it up: through in some a0wings with those x-wings!Well....if it were possible.

...dude...you do realize that you just made me hungrier for that final version, right?

But as to one of my previous questions; are you considering adding some of the elements from Sins Plus?

So this would mean the rebels would have Star Destroyers also???