Starsector

I noticed it's a general trend with smaller mod ships; even cruisers tend to peform significantly worse than vanilla ones, unless the mod is shamelessly unbalanced with overpowered ships across the board.

Haven't noticed anything of the sort, really. Their cruisers feel weak.

>It had a silly name like the Macarena too or something.
If you mean Metafalica then you've got the wrong mod, it's Sylphon RnD.

I'm sure it's had a ton of balance tweaks since I played it, I remember them talking about a balance overhaul when I was playing

Nope it was the Macnamara, I just looked it up. This thing.

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Ah, gotcha, haven't played this mod too much.
Look up Metafalica though, it might be my absolute favourite mod ship ever. The ammo switching module is great.

I was only bringing up the Macnamara because I remember it being as fast as a Destroyer without any mods while having insane forward firepower, like enough to easily nuke down capitals solo.

One day this game will come to Steam. Maybe that day I'll play it. It does look like it has soul on it so I feel bad about pirating it.

So are all mod ships op because people wanna steamroll the game as "their faction"

RELEASE THE FUCKING BLOGPOST

No, many mod ships are actually vastly underpowered. If you want a rundown on what to avoid if you don't want powercreep, I'm sure the thread will assist you.

Most mod ships are shit, very few are blatantly OP and mods with OP ships usually mention that in the description / get pointed out by players.

Blackrock and Diabele always under perform in my runs, both in battle and in campaign.
Sylphon seems to under perform in battle when they have the big capitals as they keep teleporting into their own ships for no reason. Also many of the mods/ship packs buff the vanilla factions

>keep teleporting into their own ships
Have this issue with Blackrock Karkinos on allied fleets, they're wrecking frigates/destroyers that way. It's probably only a ship that's good to pilot personally.

It's a (D) Hammerhead
It's cool though
I like it

If people wanted that, there are at least a few vanilla ships that are more powerful than the VAST majority of mod options.

Mod weapons, on the other hand, are much more of a crap shoot, dominating certain categories and niches.

The game's a better 4X than shitlaris by far.

Buy my DLC!

Are there any must use mods?

>have a stable set of colonies running and shitting out lots of money, a fleet of the strongest ships with which to steamroll bases, bounties, and redacteds, and have most of the map explored barring the extreme left and right

I feel I've played all I can of this game. I wish I could do mods but my toaster only has 2 GB of RAM.

All that colony stuff really wanna make me play Master of Orion 2 again, though.

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What's a good replacement for the falcon?
>Fast enough to catch slow or out of place frigates and destroyers with it's subsystems
>enough fire power to deal decent damage against unshielded cruisers and capitols(though its kind of slow but it might just be my load out)

Eagle's a bit too slow for my tastes.

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Maybe the Aurora?

What the fuck was his problem?

You want this ship from Dassault-Mikoyan Engineering

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Nexerelin first and foremost.

Are there mods with spaceships that look like real life ships? Like Space Battleship Yamato

I heard there was a mod for Yamato itself, but nothing else. I want to try and make one eventually.

Idk but i want to marry this ship.
That two-shot spinal-mounted railgun is better than sex.

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Spinal cannons are god.

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