Since Histidine says that faction mods will require tweaking to take full advantage of the diplomacy changes in Nex 9.5, I figured now was as good a time as any to put forward my own observations: In terms of campaign feel on the vanilla (Corvus) map, Scy is in pretty good place overall. However, due to its very high access, the industries on Elysee somewhat overpower and overbalance the market share of the vanilla factions' industries. Considering the vanilla factions are canonically dominant in the sector, this feels kinda wrong, and thus I feel it could stand to be adjusted. The simplest way to do so would be remove the Waystation, somewhat reducing Elysee's excessive market share without materially weakening the faction. Granted I definitely understand the temptation to plonk them down on one's mod faction's markets, but the relatively poor access a lot of markets in vanilla suffer from is more feature than bug. It helps keep the factions more balanced against one another (otherwise Hege would be even more dominant that they already are) and, whilst this doesn't really apply to Elysee given it'll still have 150%+ even without the Waystation, pre-existing surpluses and shortages are an important part of the early game.
Anyways, just a small thing. Rest assured that Scy is already one of the best faction mods out there. I just believe that if such relatively minor alterations can improve campaign feel, it's at least worth putting on the table.
