Thanks for the responses!

Balance is NP hard

At the start of the game my advisor made me build a troop building before I started to build the spaceport


I responded earlier in mode depth - but I'm curious about this particular piece...

What government & race were you playing?

Maybe shadow republic?
they get the droid foundry for free ...

aldehyt wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:58 am Silly I, i think git reset --hard <commit> was enough to get 1.30.11 version without any trouble

Glad that worked for you!

I appreciate the feedback, Foraven!

Yeah, i hate not having the ability to really, truly have multiple ship classes per role.
But the way that vanilla achieves this - and the amount of micro management necessary to make that work - doesn't work for me. Many of the changes in XL are to make my play ...

I'd love to see actual spinal mounts - a larger than large with weapons that require it - only one on a ship, obviously centerline (or maybe two, for wings).

Obviously you can do this now if there is a hardpoint where you need on the 3d model, but only then, and only meticulously since you need to ...

I also had one other remark and that was in the S, M and L version of weapons. Outside of missiles it seems that for the most part S are worse than M and M are worse than L. That is they have the same DPS and power draw etc per weight but smaller weapons deal less raw damage and often less range ...

One other thought about reactors...

I personally prefer either the fusion or the harmonic lines - but that relates to the races I tend to play most often.

When I'm Mortalen or Boskara, Plasmatic is my friend. Again, great mining skills and sparse slots.

But when I'm Human, Ackdarian, I tend to ...

I hope it is OK to comment on balancing issues I have found playing the XL mod. I have not played it for a while but did so this weekend.

Of course.


The Battle Droids seem to be in a strange place... they are worse in every regards now as their maintenance are almost as high as the infantry ...

I see you now include an increased selection of flags in DW2-XL. I am eager to get my hands on this . I see it is available on Steam as a separate download but I don't get along with Steam. Is there any chance you could let me have it or point to where I can get it outside Steam?


Talk to ...

Nyku wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 8:32 pm any plans to touch characters and character traits?
especially for leaders, there's only so much variation and you often end up with very similar leaders, due to the ever-similar traits they get...

Sadly, not something I can access - all hard-coded atm

I see this in one xml:
<ImageFilename>XLAssets/Components/000-Laser Cannon</ImageFilename>

but where is this image? It is not in the zip.


Apologies - I'm rarely active on these forums - much more active on their discord https://discord.gg/PkkWd3Xg

Here's version 1.20.3 with everything (the ...

Awesome! Thanks so much for writing / drawing this up!

sometimes they fly into the planet's center - but can't find it
or they wander away from it and keep jumping back towards it -
but totally botch an easy invasion - dropping one or two units at a time.

This used to be an issue in earlier versions of the game - way back when I first started playing ...

Looks like this:
(notice the two floating engines above the model)

4th fleet just jumps between "slave enforcement platform 223" and the local star.
I have no idea why - just back & forth over & over - burning fuel, and accomplishing nothing.
save: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ytcpwara ... 16.7z/file

Here's another instance of "fleet sent off without enough fuel"
Now - it may well be that there isn't enough at the shipyards where this fleet was built - and it IS flying someplace to refuel - so not the worst behavior.

HOWEVER, my empire is full of unassigned, idle, tankers. Couldn't they come to ...

I'm impressed that you took the time to do this.

That's cool that a dedicated Human player can optimize the situation over time, and counter balance the automation's appalling failures.

My beef remains that this is not a playable game where allowing the automation to choose what mines to build ...

I appreciate that you're trying to help. But... your assumption is that I don't know how to play this game, and that I haven't already given it copious volumes of forbearance and tolerance and benefits of the doubt.

The casalon isn't draining because I don't know how this game works, or that I've ...

We are not seeing this in our testing at all. Do you have any way to reproduce this and is it happening with fully automated fleets or only manual ones? Does this seem to have become worse for you with the new experimental performance betas?


Erik - I included a save file in the OP. It happens ...

Yeah, stick to official patches unless you're willing to endure some extra bugginess. That's why beta patches are opt-in.


Hey morons who can't read the name of this forum:
THIS IS THE BUG REPORT FORUM.

FOR BETAS especially, since that what they need feedback and bug reports on the most (and ...