Ok so now I tackle the biggest and most controversial changes made in my mod. The ones that everyone wants me to revert, remove and purge from the galaxy like some kind of filthy Blorg.

Firstly, I do not want to alter vanilla balance unless I absolutely feel compelled to do so in order to achieve my artistic objective. (Beautiful Battles of course) I didn't just increase weapon cooldowns by a large amount because I thought it was a good idea, I did it for the aesthetic value it imparts to the mod. As such, I tried to do it in such a way as to have as little impact as possible, balance wise.

Which is why I applied the weapon cooldown change as a global percentage on all weapons equally. The idea is that way I get what I want (Less projectile / missile / laser spam causing an excess of visual AND audio distortion also adversely affecting FPS in the latter battles of the game. Theoretically it should be as close to vanilla balance as possible while achieving a vast improvement in aesthetic quality and even computer performance!

Now, after increased the weapon cooldowns as much as I did, weapon damage needed a boost to compensate. Again, in the interest of maintaining vanilla balance as much as possible, weapon damage was increased globally with the same percentage value so that all weapon damage was increased equally.

The reason for the weapon damage increase is compensatory for the weapon cooldown increase (slower firing but more damage = similiar outcome). If the weapon damage was left the same, the cooldown increase would cause fights to draw on much longer and increasing the potency of things like shield regeneration, hull regeneration and allow the enemy empires to constantly reinforce the lengthy batte with more ships as they are built. Plus the battles would be overly long.

Again I repeat, all of the changes I make in this mod are primarily for Aesthetics. Unfortunately some combat variables need to be altered to get the maximum visual pleasure for the BEAUTIFUL BATTLES!!!!!!!

Please accept my vision and suscribe if you like it. If you ask me to change things like these modifications discussed above that I feel very strongly about, please provide thoughtful feedback, alternative solutions, saves with evidence to support your claim and a positive attitude otherwise you will just be ignored.

Thank you for taking the time to read this monologue!