Speaking of which, Zaphide, any plans to throw a layer of polish over everything~? Give things catchier and more descript names than Out System Station Attack Fleet? Can just call those Incursions, that's what they are. Hostile takeover parties. Give everyone proper names rather than "council" or "relics" (which by the way should really be two factions, Purifiers and Elders) or "interstellarFederation"?
What is... Polish?!
Haha but yeah eventually
I'm prioritizing getting some more things in there to give the system a bit more 'life', and then I want to work on giving the player a few more things to do rather than just influence things by fighting. After that, yeah polish would be good. I'm hoping to make the names of things a bit more factions specific, so each factions has it's own fleet names, station names etc.
Interestingly, the non-proper names I'm using for things is actually important. They have to be the factions ID's, as the campaign mod API is not yet at the point where I can determine who owns what without checking the name. So the name of the faction has to contain the id of the faction which is a little limiting...
About the Elder+Purifier=Relics, I played around in a dev version with them as separate factions but it just didn't work that well, so I discussed with the mod author a few ways to add them and arciblade was OK with me combining them (which I think works really well, as each faction kind of complements each other). I realise in the lore they are meant to be mortal enemies
so I think this is more of an interim solution until Exerelin gets to the point where it can support a capital ship only faction or arciblade adds a few more ships in