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Just out of curiosity, is there going to be any way to obtain some of the "Illegals" for playable use in either campaign or skirmish?

Negative. They're not terribly useful to complement conventional forces anyways unless you have a group of them.

Just out of curiosity, is there going to be any way to obtain some of the "Illegals" for playable use in either campaign or skirmish?

Does this post only pertain to the starting forces in the Skyhook campaign, or does it also apply to Alderaan in CW and GFFA?

Well, you could just rename the CSA to Underworld everywhere but in the DAT file. As for pirates lagging GC, I can confirm that must be partly the case, because myself and Tropical Bob couldn't get multiplayer GC to work without seriously reducing the number of pirates. If we had standard PR pirate fleets, the GC doesn't load correctly, because the loading time desyncs the players (we think).

Unfortunately they won't be playable without a fix for the scripting. We're using them with a dead AI to test whether or not having less Pirates improves galactic lag.

Ooohh that'll be interesting to engage/use. It would be nice to have the option to play as CSA. Tropical Bob, with occasional help from myself, has been moving towards making them playable, at least in multiplayer.

Ooooooh. You guys adding in the CSA back to the campaigns? The CSA currently happens to be my favorite faction right now.

Currently inconclusive. Will report more once CW/OR/IR/GFFA testing is completed.

I was actually referring to the pro-CSA type worlds in Skyhook & Outer Rim, which use almost exclusively CSA units in their Pirate forces (including Recusants ) - eg Bonadan.
We have added Rebel Invincible-class Heavy Cruisers to some starting forces though.

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Ooooooh. You guys adding in the CSA back to the campaigns? The CSA currently happens to be my favorite faction right now.

Easier said than done...

Besides, I Like the CSA - gives a different flavour to the campaigns.

Well...as PR mentions, our problem is that the Rebellion and New Republic are represented by the same faction. Why not eliminate CSA and break them apart?

Easier said than done...