Masters Mod v1.7 ( May the Masters be with You )

[Suicide Junkie]

Leaky shields are completely useless until all solid shields have been depleted.

Mixing the two is inefficient, not beneficial.

[Urendi Maleldil]

Well, they're not much different from standard shields right now, if that's what you mean.

I'm actually not that happy with the Trek shields; I was really working to push 1.5 out the door, and just haven't had time to really play around with and tweak them yet. They're not different enough from standard shields.

I might reduce the number of shield points they generate, and increase the crystal armor ability. But then it will also be a bear to get the AI to use them instead of standard shield generators, even with AI tags.

[Suicide Junkie]

Can you not just call for SGFD ability instead of shield generation?

[Urendi Maleldil]

I could, but I was hoping to be able to use the AI Designcreation's built-in shield perameter. The way I understand it is that it will only use the components with the greatest number of shield points.

[Urendi Maleldil]

Other notable additions:

Travel Masters get Hot Rodded hull sizes - normal hulls that let you add more than the normal number of engines

Megascale Masters get Highliner hull sizes - they're not true highliners (like in the Highliners Mod), but they're large starbase-sized hulls that are available very early in the game.