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They're great for grabbing reinforcement points with their speed.
I've been meaning to say something about this for a while, but I feel like the IPV-1 is way more durable than it has any right to be for its size. It has 900 shield points, 100 more shield points than the Lancer, a frigate (though it does have 100 less health, 700 as opposed to 800), both of which are higher than the Corellian Corvette, which is much larger, and only has 600shield/600 health. It's already tough for larger ships to hit, on top of being considerably more durable than most ships its size.
This is true, though it does also have power to weapons which helps make up for that.
The only problem with the Pentastar Alignment is that they are not fully coded into the campaigns. Their AI is disabled (although that has been fixed in the newest patch), when playing as them, the tech level doesn't advance, the hero's can't be recruited in skirmish, and their hero's don't spawn, but instead are deployed as starting units. They are a great faction, they just aren't coded like a normal faction. As of yet, I can't make the hero's spawn if I tried, meaning era-based upgrades. A similar problem is the fact that planetary rewards don't work, and captured factories don't spawn vehicles. Other than that, they are an amazing (if slightly overpowered) faction.
I have only a few suggestions from my time playing as the Pentastar.I think Skiprays flying on their own should be an option for ~500-800 creds a squadron. Or alternatively give them to a few of the other ships. Also perhaps from era 2(Or perhaps 3) onwards replace V-19 Torrents with Scimitar Assault Bombers (If those are an improvement, I really don't know how they stack up stats-wise) Also maybe drop the price on Imperial Escort carriers because they are rather weak and only useful for their fighters at the moment (A similar problem to Marauders and DP-20 Corellian Gunships really)And I think Jerec should be split off from the Vengeance. Give the Vengeance to its captain so it can auto-resolve properly and have Jerec pull double duty as a ground unit and a way to make a second planet build Dark Jedi.
Jerec. I could be wrong on this, but I don't believe Jerec really ever TRAINED dark jedi. While he did gather dark jedi together to pursue the valley of the jedi, I don't believe he ever trained them, so giving him the ability to train dark jedi on a planet he was on wouldn't be logical.
Also perhaps from era 2(Or perhaps 3) onwards replace V-19 Torrents with Scimitar Assault Bombers.
Scimitar Assault Bomber is one of the most useless starfighters in the mod.Also, giving Pentastar Alignment fighter complements era advancement results in plain weird bugs elsewhere, mainly IR proper using Pentastar and Yevetha ships and their fighter complements, even if they are not connected in any way in the XML code.
They are connected. "Variant Of".If you go through, recode all the ships they share and do full coding in the XML's instead of "variant of" you can get it to work correctly. I had done that for myself back with 2.0, but after 2.1, didn't feel like doing it again.
Did you ALSO recode the other factions though? All factions need to use no "variant of" for the shared ship. So if you're doing an ISD-1, each faction needs to have a full coding in the .xml for the ISD-1 in order to avoid it, NONE of the factions can use the "variant of" string. If any of them have the variant of in use, it can cause headaches, but if none of them do, it will work. I'd never had a single ship not work correctly after removing all variant of.On the fun side, using variant of, you can get a LOT of fighters to launch. I remember when I first was learning this, my PA Venators were launching 2 Tie/ln, 2 Tie/Sa, 2 V-19's, 1 Tie/IN, and 1 Skipray. Couldn't figure out at first why they had so many, but got a laugh of seeing the Venator go against anything, absolute destruction incarnate.
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