Probably. I'm not a programmer, so that does help. thanks.

In that case, to be more precise, the superweapons should be under the tactical modules section, like so for the TEC:

    planetModuleInfo
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            count 9
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALMETALEXTRACTOR"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALFRIGATEFACTORY"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALCOMBATLABORATORY"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALTRADEPORT"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALCULTURECENTER"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALCRYSTALEXTRACTOR"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALCAPITALSHIPFACTORY"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALNONCOMBATLABORATORY"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALREFINERY"
        Page:1
            count 7
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALGAUSSDEFENSE"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALHANGARDEFENSE"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALREPAIRPLATFORM"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALJUMPBLOCKER"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALSHIELDGENERATOR"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHORBITALCANNON"
            entityDefName "PLANETMODULE_TECHDEEPSPACEMINE"

To remove the Novalith, delete the bolded line and set the number after count to 6 (down from 7). This is the quickest and simplest way. The research item will still be present for the Novalith, even though it cannot be built by the player. The AI won't mind and simply won't research the item, unless of course it unlocks something else for research.

Cool. Not so much interested for myself but for my dad. He likes to play big games against the AI and they're prone to throwing those things out like candy now. I figure before he gripes about it, I can head it off and kill it outright. He never builds the things anyway.

Is this the mod where you can invade a planet instead of just bombing it?

Just wanted to thank you guys for the great mod.

Btw, it would be nice if in the next update you could balance the kol to make it a true battleship.

You could make its ultimate increase its firing rate by 50% as well as all the other stuff it already does

OR, you could make it so that the ultimate gives you 3.5 antimatter per second rather than 2

Just some ideas.

Thankyou again.  OH! i almost forgot.  The orbital defense thingy which causes missiles to be fired from the ground is underpowered.  Make it do lke 40% more damage or something.

Chao!

No.  

Atleast i havent been able to after about 150 games.

No, that mechanic doesn't exist in any mod.  Though technically, all you'd have to do is replace the bombing graphics with colonize graphics and it would look like an invasion rather then a bombing...  But according to the game, you'd still be bombing the hell out of everything and have to rebuild the infrastructure and everything else anyway, so why bother?

It's already pumped up to be a better tank then the standard Kol.  If you find yourself needing to conserve antimatter, turn off the flak burst autofire.  Works a lot better player controlled.

It does retaliation damage too.  I can't really justify making it stronger since I've seen it lay waste to entire fleets when it has the support of a starbase.  Do remember that planetary defenses aren't there to fortify and hold the planet indefinitely.  This game is designed around fleets, so it's your fleet that needs to defend your empire.  The planetary defenses are at best supposed to be a delay tactic to give you time to get your fleet, or at least part of it, over to the invasion point.  Changing that would be beyond the scope of this mod.

Beyond the scope of a mod...  Thats Hearsay

yeah but any skilled player will just send their fleet after the weak orbital defense sattelite.  What do you mean by retaliation damage?  Like if they're bombing the planet?  

And the kol's current upgrades really only make it slightly better than usual since all the caps were upgraded.  To become competitive against kortuls it needs a better final ability.  Getting more GRG's in or upgrading the dps would go a long way in that direction.  Tell me, at the moment what percentage of your caps are kols?

I find that the flak is worth squat anyway. I just keep Gardas with it, seeing that its AM is better used elsewhere and the Gardas can chew them up without recharge or power loss.

On the one hand, it's true that a planet is so large that ground forces will get the first shot, seeing that the origin of the PD will be unknown to the enemy fleet. On the other hand, once the location is known, any surviving ships (pretty much everyone outside of the first targets) would be able to pound them into the ground. When you think of the PD, think of it like the ground defenses in Star Wars, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine or Homeworld 2. They make for a good show and all, but mobile forces will have more options and quicker resupply, thus winning out consistently. Besides, you have other tactical slots, which I predominantly use for PD, PJI, Repair Bays and Hangars.

For me, it use to be 50% as they made a skirmish line. Now I fall back on strikecraft more so they're down to about 25% at most.

Exactly.  Kols are battleships and so should make up about 50% of any given fleet.  This is because the other caps are support ships.  SUPPORT.  By their nature they fill niches and so should only be needed in limited numbers (unless you want to bomber spam.)   Realistically, the battleships should have at least double the firepower they have now since they are meant to fill the role of overwhelming firepower.  (though to balance this they should be weak to special abilities and bombers).

Of course this isn't going to happen but you know what i mean.

By the way, you should try getting 32 kols together sometime.  Its alot of fun and doesn't really lose you much since you do not need fighters if there are no enemy fighters to kill and you do not need dunovs if you have lots of hoshikos and research antimatter regeneration and max trainable level.  Belive me, its amazing.  I spent an afternoon with a friend in a deadlock in twin empires.  We made a deal that we each had an hour to make the biggest fleets possible then we would meet in the asteroid belt to do battle.  I ended up with 32 kols, 50 celios, and 2000 supply points in hoshikos.  Those kols were indestructible.  I only lost one and that was because when he say that he was losing he said "what the hell" and he hit the middle of my fleet with 13 cleansing brilliances at once...  I lost close to 300 hoshikos and 1 kol...       wow

Anyway, i ended up crushing him with sheer indestructibility and it was a shitload of fun.

Try it sometime.

Just b/c they are called 'battleships' doesnt mean anything. Going Cap heavy usually isnt a great idea. Focus fire and all. All Caps are support. It the nature of their low DPS and multiple abilities. The Kol has the highest Armor of any ship in game, its can take a load of punishment. I dont see how changing anything your asking for is for the better.

What your asking is to change a core game mechanic. You want a Titan/I Win Button. Go play Rebellion.

I take that challenge and raise you 32 Dunovs.  I win.

With the caps the ONLY cap that got a DPS increase were the Battleships. All others just got hull and shield increases. We game tested these changes quite a bit. The Battleships are fine though they will get a second look in Rebellion due to its cap changes.

Titans don't equal an I Win Button. I have learned that the hard way. If anything Titans makes Battleships more viable as a they can put the hurt on an unsupported Titan.

Challenging me eh?  Been awhile.  Don't go down this road...  Please don't...  Many have tried, none have succeeded. 

50% of your fleet as battleships is ridiculous and easy to counter, it's downright pathetic by today's standards.

Carrier caps are not support ships.  Not in this game, not in the real world.  Neither is the Marza.  It's used for bombing of planets and eating of enemy ships (Missile Barrage, omnomnomnom XP).  The Akkan and the Dunov?  Yes, but it says just as much in their description.  Hell at the end game they're listed as support too.  This isn't pure 18th century style warfare we're dealing with.  The battleship doesn't rule.  It's still fairly powerful and commands respect, but so do the other ships, even the support ships.

They have more then double the firepower when compared to their non DS counterparts.  Of course, so do the other capital ships, but none of them alone is going to take on a Kol and win.  The Kol isn't a beat you into the ground with overwhelming firepower unit, it's a tank.  That means hit me, hit me some more, hit me as many times as you can, then hit me again, not I can kill you in a few shots.  Look at it's special abilities.  3 of the 4 abilities are defensive.  You could argue flak burst is offensive, you'd be wrong, but you could argue it.  Even it's offensive ability has a defensive hint to it by reducing the target's speed.  If you need to retreat from a ship that's owning your fleet and you have a Kol at your disposal, GRG the bitch.  Bet you get away.  Of course, I'd just use armistice and walk away at my own leisure, but that's just me being lazy.

I could make it happen, it's not like I haven't taken ideas from people and put them into the mod before, but I don't really see the need to unbalance things.  ;]

I've done that so many times it's boring.  I've been playing Sins and modding it for over 4 years now.  You really want to try out something fun, build 32 Kols, then create the TEC's flagship which is basically an uberpowered double Kol.  But for some real good times, field 40 to 60 Kols each with a good support fleet and send groups off into three different directions.  I've done that too.

Except that you've committed your entire fleet to fighting on the front lines and if I bring in say 20 carrier caps, you're screwed because you lose 2 or 3 kols for every pass my bombers make regardless of how much damage your hoshikos are capable of repairing and I can send in 3 akkans, 3 dunovs, and 6 Marzas and wipe out your entire empire before you have a chance to even come close at rebuilding a fleet that's worth anything.  Granted, that's resorting to bomber spam, but it's a legitimate WW2 tactic for clearing the oceans of its battleships.  Again, one on one, the Kol will win, but fights are almost never one on one.  The more balanced fleet (and by that I mean the fleet designed to counter their opponent), if not fielded by a total idiot, will eventually prevail.

Pics or it didn't happen!    Kidding.  This I can believe especially if your friend is fielding nothing but battleships as well.  Granted, fielding support ships reduces the firepower they're bringing to the fight, but if you guys were deadlocked, that should more then prove that you can bring less to the fight with a more balanced fleet and hold your own against a stronger fleet.

Only because he didn't use bombers.

Your 32 Kols, versus my 14 Sovas and 18 Akkans.  I win.  I assume we've both had some time to buy a couple of levels for our ships.  The Akkans shut down more then half your fleet, while the Sovas pick off the rest.  By the time your remaining just more then half are back in the action, my Sovas are ready to pick them off too.  If no time for training was done, then I just field more sovas then akkans and let the bombers give me levels before you're even close to firing range.  Then I have more powerful ships then you and can get back to my original plan while you're already busy replacing ships.  It's kind of not fair of me to even show up for the battle.  The hardest part of my day is designating targets for the Akkans during their first strike.  Yeah, I might lose some ships in the battle if you gang up on them, but it's so lopsided it doesn't even matter.  I can replace my losses faster and cheaper.  Didn't think of that one did ya?    The Kol costs more and takes longer to build.  Even if you do manage to put up a good fight, eventually, you're going to run out of ships simply by not being able to build them fast enough, or you run out of resources.  Another advantage I have is limping a damaged Sova back home and using rapid manufacturing and my fleet is full strength very quick, two and a half times faster then it was already quicker, or I can sneak one into your ship yards and use embargo and you ain't building a damn thing and I get your taxes.  =D  Ask Carbon how angry Embargo makes me.

I'll bet it was.  Sins has provided me with years of good times.  Far more then many other games.

You know, I read your posts and I just get the feeling you think I'm as new to this as you are.  I know you know that I'm not a newbie to this, but you're posts read like you think I am.  Back in early 2008, yeah you might have been able to introduce me to a tactic or a challenge I haven't done before, but it's not 2008 anymore.  Been there, done that.  These "which is better, battleships or carriers" discussions....   Definitely been there and done that repeatedly.  Forum search it, you'll see my posts in many of those discussions.  I'm usually on the side of the battleship because post WW2 they don't get the respect they deserve, so I feel ya on that, but still...  The other caps demand respect as well, even the support ships, namely the Akkan and Dunov in this particular case.  Ask anyone who's been around the block a few times about the greatness of the missile barrage the Marza can do and you'll field a few of them in all of your big battles.

Yes, I could just up the power and armor and everything to the battleships to make them much harder to kill and make them just giant space guns which would make you a happy boy, but then I diminish the roles of the other caps and throw out what balance we do have, which makes everyone else very unhappy.  Here's what we can do though.  If you go ahead and get yourself something like Harpo's tools and make copies of the battleship files, I can give you a quick punch list on things to do to make yourself a little minimod that you and your friends can run on top of DS and you can make the battleships as strong as you want.  Then having this knowledge at your disposal, you can tweek the other ships to your likings and basically customize DS to your heart's content.  Sound good?

And now since I haven't posted it in a while....

See this post and download the Distant Stars Efficiency Pack.  https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/335474/page/271/#3055017  It has fixes for the mod, includes the mini mods, as well as has the galaxy forge icons, and has the other more awesome music that someone mentioned before.

Pity you don't get to see what they do now in Rebellion. MB is kicked up a notch (with the leveling up to a second tier) that can ruin even a DS fleet groups day.