I just flew around Sol sector for a while - I'm impressed and dissapointed at the same time.
Where to start?
I'm gonna start listing suggestion and critique for the improvement of the mod.
GENERAL STUFF:
I hate to say this, but the Order ships are terribly textured. My old UV mapping was left more or less in tact, but the ships have been painted over with ONE single texture.
Also, the position of weapons on the ships is terrible - why put all the weapons on top of the ship?
Well, I can help with this - I have some free time availabe so I can do some texturing if hte ships models and I can send them over with the textures. I know what feel you're aiming for this time.
The scaling of ships is allso way off - the command tower on the Broadsword for instance is smaller than my light fighter???
Capships don't use trade lanes so make some of them big.
Jump gates and cocking moors could allse be bigger.
Next, the capship weaponry is limited - just one tpye of gun for all ships, regardless of clas and size. Devirsity is a good thing - give capships anti-fighter weapons (low damage, fast fire) and dedicated anti-capital weapons (long range, big damage, slow speed)
On other things:
- the surface of Sol could do with a bit of a improvement. The background buildings could use ahiger res and cleaner texture and the white building should be replaced with two towers (since fighters fly trought it regulary)
- what's those green particle thing in Sol? Looks like some spores and frankly, it somehow doesn't fit.
- ship classes desigantions and descriptions could use some work. Why would anyone want ot re-build ancient ships? Those are over 800 year old, and the sleeper ships, while being high-tech at that time also carried selected individuals and knowledge. If the outer HULL desing was taken from the old ships, that's OK - but the whole tech is outdated.
- the dragon shaped ship I named KuBatleship is a Order gunboat? The BrBattleship, that looks like a Man-O-War (symbol of British naval power in the old days) is also Order? Who decided the classes for crying out loud?
- the warp bouys are great 
I love the idea (jsut one part you can bump into), but the effect could use a bit of work. zthe yellow particles that fly past you could be smaller and there could be more of htem. the big yellow blobs that appear infront of you should be removed as they block allmost the whole view.
SINGLEPLAYER
Why not improve on it too? If I could (allmost) do it, surely you can do it too? There are so many great new hings, ships and weapons that it's a shame they're not part of hte campaign.
Adding into the campaign things like captial ship shields, new craft, changing balance of ships - it changes the whole experience and it's not too hard to do.
Balancing would be the problem, but it's qa easy thing to do (at least for me - I modded over 30 games so far and made balance packs for all of them - and they were all highly rated)
Lastly, I offer my help regarding this matters I wrote before.
Well, if you're interestd, I can go into more detail on these things..
