Starsector 0.95.1a is out! (12/10/21); Blog post: Uniquifying the Factions, Part 2 (04/30/22)
I am holding my next playthrough for this mod update, can't wait!
The middle ground I'm aiming for is the style that is most satisfying for me, because I am the person spending hundreds of hours developing it.
You have to realise, though, that by taking over an existing mod, you'll have to deal with certain expectation based on that that mod has been for many years. You are, in fact, not the only person who spent many hours developing it. If this was your entirely original work, it'd be entirely up to you where to take style and aesthetics of the mod, but when you take over a faction with a longstanding history and change its aesthetics, you will have to deal with people not liking it cause they got attached to it.
You should also keep in mind the difference between style and aesthetics. You can very much retain the overall aesthetics of the original while moving it to a more vanilla-adjacent style. The new Banshee is a good example of that. It's very much an improvement on the original that retains the overall aesthetics. The same can't be said about the Lathe imho, which feels quite different from the original with the loss of her signature asymmetry. It is of course entirely your decision how to go about it, I just thought I would mention it.
Also, you're greebling your plating too much. More clean surfaces would help with selling this as Neutrino already.
Dreadnought for prv? GOOD
It is not the cause, but here is the fix:
Crash: "PermGen space"
This is unrelated to how much system memory you have or how much memory you've allocated via vmparams.
Basically, every time a piece of code is loaded by the game, information about that piece of code goes into a reserved part of memory called PermGen.
Only a small amount of space is reserved for this, by default.
So, if you have enough mods, you'll load so many pieces of code that it'll run out of space to store information about the code.
Your options are to either:
A) Tell it to reserve more PermGen space.
B) Use Java 8, which fixes the issue. Java 8 has other performance benefits that are good, too, such as preventing the post-battle slowdown.
For option A, add/set -XX:PermSize=512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m to your vmparams file, near to the existing Xmx values. Exact position doesn't matter.
For option B, look for the pinned guide in #modded_gameplay on updating to JRE 8.
https://discord.com/channels/187635036525166592/512356777451323393/894702930987466852
