In general, the larger 1600 meter Star Destroyers have been pushed a tier further up in the tech tree, while the new Procursator Star Destroyer takes the ISD-I’s old slot at Commander rank. To try and make this rush less effective, while also increasing the variety of strategies available to Imperial commanders early game, we have made several adjustments to when the Empire unlocks their capitalships. Spamming corvettes was often the only real option to deal with it early game. The Imperial Star Destroyer’s powerful base stats, significant early game fighter striking power, and most importantly the ability to capture ships, meant that it was difficult to counter and it could even capture its own support fleet to make up for the resources that went into obtaining it.

For the Warlords in particular (but not exclusively), it was quite viable to jump to researching and building the Imperial-I Star Destroyer to abuse this capital ship in numerous ways. The most overpowered such strategy was the “Early Game ISD-1 Rush.” Expensive capitalships in Interregnum are gated behind research so that they cannot be obtained as the free starting capitalship, giving an unfair advantage over vanilla factions. As such, our main goal was to balance their over performing strategies, while giving them new tools to implement entirely new tactics. However, in competitive PVP play, they relied on a fairly narrow pool of very strong rushes and unit compositions, but lacked the flexibility of other factions due to some holes in their unit roster. In our public poll, both factions topped the list of strongest factions. On the surface, no one would argue either the Galactic Empire or the Warlords were weak factions. The Imperial factions found themselves in an odd spot balance wise in Beta 1, though many of these issues have been present in the mod since its early days. Describing them all would be a large undertaking, but read on for some of the general themes and major changes.

Only in the later period of Beta 1 did our testing group develop to the point where regular PVP games were a thing, and they have been even more active this last year! Thanks to their feedback, plus the comments of you, our players, over the years, Beta 2’s balance changes alone are already larger than the entire patch notes of any previous update in the mod’s history.

While we are excited to share more information on the central theme of our upcoming Beta 2 update, the Dark Empire, the truth is just as much work has been put into rebalancing the mod thanks to the exceptional efforts of our play testers. And for complex strategy games, it is a core principle that is almost impossible to achieve, yet getting close makes the game immeasurably better. In politics, it is perhaps vital for stability. For philosophy, it is a concept that we all strive to maintain in our lives.

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