A New Faction Set Approaches!

[Green1]

I prefer the bald-leader Borg -the other leader with hair isn't my work, though other elements are- but I never playtested either enough to have any real opinion about playability.

Yeah.. I am very aware I am potentially setting myself up for a situation where I could get stomped.

I will use whatever faction you recommend. Still, that is a lot of factions to look through. And... Lal is doing okay but is not out of the woods yet. I may have to eventually nuke Zak, if my IoD tactic I am brewing will not work. Yang just does not want to give up, either. We have been swapping 3 bases over and over out there in the east. But I digress.

Back in the days of old, they really should have set up a point-buy system for these factions. My guess though is the MPers would outright refuse to play with you if you brought one of these factions out. Hell, they probably still would to this day. T_ras? Mind if I bring an OP faction? lol... It would be worse than showing up insisting I play Marr.

[Rainbow Lizard]

Well, I'm finally back. Sorry, I was on Holiday. So, here's my edits.
The Knowers get 2 free techs instead of 3. I'm working on their faction images.
The Zephyrs have faction images and start with Advanced Military Algorithms instead.
The Paladins have an Industry debuff as they were proving too OP. They also have finished graphics now.
The Corporation have slightly less probing skills to balance.
The Hackers are unchanged.
I really need to get the Fungal Clan up.
The Psychics have lots of changes. The PSI bonus has been reduced to 30%, the probe bonus has been reduced to 1 and they now have a free drone in every base.

Tell me if there is any balance issues you can find.

[Green1]

No problem. The last month, I was so busy I was pressed for time as well. It is not like we are getting paid for this (although in a perfect, cool world being able to do nothing but game/mod/ be on forums without having to deal with employers would be a utopia)

Where do you have these available for download? Or have I overlooked somewhere?

EDIT: I do expect some imbalance. Custom faction system in SMAX is almost like an afterthought and not part of the system. More modern games and even a rare few from near that era with custom factions use point-buy systems. Some of the NN node ones did not have editors or quality control.

[Rainbow Lizard]

I'll update the main post soon with the incomplete download links.