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While my thoughts are bubbling, is there any way to have a ship give a speed bonus to other ships in a fleet? If so, that could serve so simulate the carrier abilities of the big B5 ships. Use the drive setup above, but also make it apply the +10 speed to all other ships in the fleet. Then having one big expensive ship with a bunch of small cheap ships dragged along becomes a valid strategy. If this isn't possible/practical, perhaps we should rethink the idea of having missile weap

Glad to help. I think leaving ships with a speed of 1 is fine, we don't want them to not move at all. I had another thought on drives and jump gates. Instead of gradually increasing drive and jump gate bonuses, set them to a +10 Speed across the board. Make the early jump gate/drives hideously expensive and the drives very large. I'm thinking ~5000 each and a size of 20-30. As you move up the techs the cost and size drop until they become practical in smalle

Oh, let me mention how cool this mod is. I've been loving it. Some thoughts on tech changes: One of the critical differences of B5 is Jump Gates/Jump Drives. I'm willing to bet there isn't a good way to simulate how they work in B5, but here is a stopgap. If you can have Starbases move ships to other Starbases, ignore all of the following. Change the Drive Techs - Remove the automatic +1 speed bumps. Increase the size and cost of Drives so that only

The later Mass Driver Techs need work. Right now there is almost no reason to research past Pulse Cannon II, as the Dmg/Size doesn't get any better and there isn't any major cost savings. Also, the first Neutron Cannon has a better Dmg/Size than Neutron Cannon II/III. The cost might rebalance that, but I'm not sure it is enough.