Hey finally got the chance to sit down and play the latest version the other day (most of my time is spent modding these days). In short, I really like it! I almost get the feeling that this is an official content add-on from Alex, (especially the blueprints/salvage/building ships).
A couple of things I noticed while playing (take this with a grain of salt, only played for an hour or two before I started modifying the files and trying to fit in new ships and stuff):
-Faction-specific parts are hard to get at your faction's stations. This makes it difficult to build your faction's ships unless you actively start killing them for salvage (there aren't all that many faction specific parts you can buy at stations otherwise).
-Some systems are a little too well-defended for their own good. Rasht, for instance, was very quiet since the Mayorate and Pirates are friends with each other. The two factions pretty much annihilated anybody who got close haha
. It would make things a little more interesting if the Hegemony or some other mutual enemy of the two had an occasional spawn in-system to liven things up. That said, it was pretty fun to use the system as a base while raiding innocent convoys of traders. That part of the map pretty much turned into a black hole for commerce, which I like.
-It's too easy to leave a faction by accident by pushing the wrong button (but I think someone else already mentioned that).
-The grav cannon (built-in weapon for the Del Azarchel) keeps popping up in station inventories, which it probably shouldn't do.
Also, I wanted your input on something-
I was potentially going to redo my mod's structure at some point in the future (add faction-specific prefixes to weapons/sounds/graphics/etc, create centralized faction graphics/sounds folders, rename several ships' internal ID's to their actual name). It should make my mod a lot cleaner and easier to work with going forwards, but would mess up your UsS integration for my next version in the short term. I'm currently undecided about whether or not I wanted to do all this for my next update, and wanted to check in and see if you were up for it. If not, that's cool, I can hold off on doing it for awhile.