More of an increase in levels for the abilities themselves. Think Guass Rail Gun for the Kol going 4 or 5 levels high. The idea is to make a ship (like the Kol) more useful with stronger abilities.

That is usually how it works. Most games (still waiting for Starcraft 2 but Blizzard is another story) usually will drop in price after being out for a while.

"I want something for practically nothing because I bought your other stuff and ..."

Sup JCD.

Personally not a fan of that...that'll just make low level caps even weaker late game...

I have completely read your thread in its entirety. My statement stands.

JCD you have misunderstood my intentions when I typed this. It was not meant to be sarcastic.

Nice use of a swear word to give more weight and meaning to the grammatical structure of your sentence.

I'll be paying $40 as I don't own Diplomacy (or maybe I'll be able to nab Diplo and pre-order), and I can say that it's worth the whole $40, at least to me. Rebellion will be bringing changes that would not otherwise be possible, changes that are useful and ones that I've personally wanted for some time. In addition, it may inject more life into the game, making a stand-alone expansion will have more of an impact than just another micro-expansion. I personally have at least one friend of mine whose waiting for Rebellion to come out eagerly; he doesn't have Sins but the news of Rebellion excited him.

As for corvettes, they most definitely have a role they can play that isn't strikecraft related; hit and runs. Particularly against enemy merchant marine (seeing the AI tweaks coming in Rebellion, for all we know trade could have more of an impact), but also for roles already present in the game such as scouting and as envoys. Or perhaps, to expand on that hit and run bit, for sabotaging structures or planets? There's a large amount of possibilities with what can be done with corvettes, esp. as, if my understanding is correct, they are a whole new entity type (i.e. not just another frigate/cruiser type).

They have a deer hunter game already out ya know.  Save you a lot of time and money and I'll feel safer knowing an angry gamer with no games isn't prowling the countryside with loaded guns looking to vent his frustration.

"Profanity...the last refuge of the witless."

Well, in 2010, when i have order Harpoon Ultimate edition, i have receive 25$ discount on the 75$ price tag ( at the release time ) because i have owner several of the previous release...

Yes, it was a 1/3 discount but Harpoon Ultimate edition was a 20 year edition with every version of the game made in the last 20 years... usually, you can have discount for these collector, gold, platinium, anniversary collection if you have previous version... these discount usually apply to old product and not new one...

When released, entrenchment/diplomacy was something new... Trinity was a cheap package with everything... Rebellion have new thing too... not only titan or Corvette are added but the graphic engine move from shader 2.0 to shader 3.0... well, these are the well know new features but there are other not so well know... by example, devs have speak about map triggers... they have not explain a lot about it but maybe it will allow some scenario features... one other feature planned on request of some people on these forum is the possibility to use custom map with multiplayer game via a automatic upload...

Point is it is best to wait the beta before speaking of a " slightly-larger-than-usual micro expansion"... after all, entrenchment or diplomacy was not a micro expension, so called DLC... plenty of game using the DLC system simply sell some new armor/spaceship for a few $$$ without reworking the game engine and the play mechanic... each of the soase expansion have fully change the way the game is play... adding more that only a few ship... in fact, some other game publisher will have release some of the free soase patch as a DLC... patch are normally for correct bug, not for improve the engine...

About greed... think of the following... plenty of game cost 50$ for only 50 hours ( or less ) of play... let say that you order Rebellion with the 10$ discount... you will have pay a whole 100$ since 2008 ( 5 year ago )... seem a lot... now, count how much hours you have already play the game and count the cost by hours... result will be very very small... count how much you will have pay if you was using a other type of entertaiment... by example, the same amount of time hiring/buying video film, or being at cinema, or buying music...

Same at a total of 100$, soase is a cheap entertaiment... well, it is usually true for almost all strategic/tactical game due to high reply possibilities... or for game with a huge amount of modding who give a new life to game... luck for us, soase is a strategic game with a huge modding communauty...

About modding, pretty sure that Rebellion will add some features requested by modders and so, with time, modders will move on Rebellion only ( ask to much resource for maintain a mod for all version )...

In short, we cannot yet reply to your question if Rebellion is worth 40$ until we can really see everything who is added or improved... personaly, i think it is worth because of the already high reply value of the game and because i am pretty sure that Rebellion will include some feature requested by modders ( who will allow new high mod level )...

Profanity can also be caused by the lesser minded driving an otherwise well-tempered and intelligent person insane.

Dammit, I don't understand...

Stardock and Ironclad deserve all the money they have gotten from me.