Succession #5 Discussion

[RPC]

Ok, I just wanted to talk about this before starting up Succ #5.

BEFORE POLLING BEGINS
I will start the poll in 3 days, and there will be 3 days of voting.
In the first 3 days, I will give potential players an opportunity to name a mod they would like to see in the succession. I will add that to the list. Once 3 days have passed, I will start the poll, voting will commence, and hopefully we will start the succession on the 7th day.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR POLL
Vote "Yes" if you want that option for Succ V5.
If a majority want that option I'll do it.

VOTING FOR MODS
Just scroll down through the list of mods and vote for which ones you want. The top X mods get chucked into the succession. If you want to add a mod that isn't on the list, make a post suggesting so.

After this, I will make a new thread for Succession #5 so we can get rid of the poll at the top of all the pages of the thread.

*edit: Added Poll
*edit2: Closed Poll, tallying votes.

[RPC]

Lindworm requested by PM.

[whaleduck]

I suggest New Playerships.

And Hopefully I can fix The Network. That means getting rid of Huarimarca.

[Jay2Jay]

Blackmarket Expansion kicks metaphorical ass and literal ass, along with some psychological and emotional ass.
So in other words I am requesting Blackmarket Expansion to be included to the amount of ass-kicking power.

[RPC]

@ SungSlaver:
Which one?
http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=433
http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=558

[FourFire]

You seem to have put "Extreme Iocrym" twice there, and in any case would it not be theoretically possible to simply combine that and the glassy Iocrym GFX?

I would like to request the following mods:
Auton Assembly Hangar
Identify Before Buying or selling
And the controversial one: Starbridge Playership PSD compatible
I also want to suggest my first mod which I have actually uploaded: Improved Tinkers

I think that we should have anywhere between 20 and 40 mods, but take special consideration and possibly exclude those mods which have been causes of crashes and bugs in the past, also: I don't feel like we really Need over a thousand different weapon types and variants, sure something extended over the default weapons is nice and useful, but I don't want to be drowning the cargohold in practically useless gag variants of level I to V laser and kinetic weapons...

P.S. could you make a poll, like last time, I think we'd all find it much easier to vote that way.

[whaleduck]

http://xelerus.de/index.php?s=mod&id=558

That one.

[RPC]

@ FourFire
I will start the poll in ~2 days once submissions for other mods are done since adding another option always resets the poll.
I can mix Extreme Iocrym and Crystal Clear Iocrym as well

@ SungSlaver
Noted, thanks for the clarification.

[FourFire]

A More Dangerous Universe
this version is apparently Dysys compatible.

[RPC]

Submissions for mods have ended, voting has begun!

After this, I will make a new thread for Succession #5 so we can get rid of the poll at the top of all the pages of the thread.

[FourFire]

Done.
I am voting for Weapons Extended 5 on the condition that we also have Identify before buying or selling. if after a while there seems to be little interest in that mod, I shall recast that vote.
(no offence, I just hate having to waste a long time clearing my cargohold of unknown weapons)

Edit: I found out that WE5 includes the nodocknavbeacons mod in the miscfixes.xml

[RPC]

@ FourFire
I will put a notice one day before I start the Succession to allow you to change your vote, and try to contact people through PM's/IRC.

[PM]

I am rushing to get Items 912 v5 done and uploaded to Xelerus by tomorrow. Hopefully, that will not be too late to include (assuming Items912 is included).

UPDATE: Finished and ready!

[RPC]

Voting is closed, I will start the succession soon.

[RPC]

I've recieved word from PM that he will update Playership Drones tomorrow, so I will postpone the Succession until then. In the meanwhile, this is the modlist, and tentative Extensions link.

Feel free to check the mods and if anybody finds that I have an old version/wrong mod/there is an update I will fix the Extensions
MODS:

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Captain's Log
Playership Drones
Dynamic Systems
Items 912
Bobby's Repair Droids
"PDmod" ICX Overhaul
Weapons Extended 5
800 New Weapons
Encounter Expansions
System Density
New Armors
HD Stargates
Mining Pack
RPC's Utility Items
Visible Damage V2
Aeonic Ships (Praetorian + Stalwart + Starlight)
Auton Assembly Hangar
NoDockNavBeacon
SI CMS (SI Commonwealth Military Station)
SM&M
Configure Screen/Change Cargohold View By Category
Bussard Reactors
PM's Fix for Freelancer Ships by Autohummer
Agauptera
Extreme Iocrym + Crystal Clear Iocrym (will be made exclusively for the succession)	
Fellow Pilgrims
Identify Before Buying or Selling
Item repair framework
Salvagers upgrade
SFItemGraphics

Cut mods (and reasons why):
Banks:
We ended up with too much money on Succession #4 that we could have bought up all of Human Space if we wanted.
Reactors Extended 2:
Some of the higher end reactors are almost impossible to get.
Starburn Autons:
WE5 and Items 912 makes it almost impossible to use items without getting the se screen cluttered.
Test Drive:
We don't really use this, and I think random weapon drops will suffice (Since we don't find most of our time spent on buying weapons anyways).

A couple notes:
-I'm going to miss the Paper Fleet, it will be hard to find allies in the Outer Realm (barring the friendly Dynamic Systems CSCs). The inclusion of SI CMS might mitigate this issue.
-I'm also going to miss gravity again, without gravity we'll have to chase down all the wrecks instead of letting them pile up at planets.
-I also haven't tried PM's Auton Assembly Hangar because I thought PSD ships would cover all my wingman needs. I guess we'll see about that.
-Why is Captain's Log getting so many votes? We haven't been using it at all o.o
-Configure screen is also kinda weird to use and I liked Bobby's Cargo Summary better.
-Yay the Agauptera is back
-Fellow Pilgrims is going to be fun... >:D

*edit: Anybody want to suggest a starter playership? I might start this succession as a Zulu....
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