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« on: May 13, 2022, 10:18:32 AM »
Yeah, all the other stuff is great, not much else to say about it. Personally I just dislike the the Diktat changes on the gameplay-side by principle. My issue is ironically the lack of uniqueness in what is meant to make the faction more unique.
The LG ship variants look cool aesthetically, but gameplay-wise they are made 'unique' in pretty much the most boring way possible. They're just direct downgrades compared to their base versions with nothing that would make them *feel* unique or interesting in any way. Sure, they're not primarily *for* the player, but since the player *can* get them, and will *want* to get them because of their skins, they will be disappointed to find that they are only worse than their base variants, with no upsides.
If they really need to be at least somewhat worse than the base hulls overall, that could still be done while giving them some variety to be more interesting very easily. Or just break even by not making solar shielding built-in so that after the d-mod is removed, it'll be the same as the base hull with a different skin.
Personally this won't really affect me either way as I usually play modded with the vanilla factions disabled so that I could use more mod factions without dropping to 5fps, but still, it's the principle of it. This is kind of a bad choice compared to the usual high-quality stuff Alex adds to the game, so it stands out more as well.