ELITE is the first expansion product produced for Galactic Starfire. 163 pages in 3 seperate PDF files. It contains dozens of optional rules, section rewrites, and rebalanced weapons. The section rewrites improved clarity & understanding and in some cases a new method of handling that part of the game.
Sections D9 (Automated Platforms), G (Small Craft), L4 (CFN), S (Graded Leaders), T2 (new Political Treaties), U (Intelligence), V (Ground Combat), Y (System Generation) and the J'Rill have rewrites. Major new optional rules are Nebulas, Galactic Oddities, Random Events, Player and NPR Race Design, and Unusual Life Forms (non-T/ST based). In addition, Small Craft and how they operate have undergone a Major Rewrite/fix in order to improve game balance and to speed play with them and automated defenses. All Technologies have been placed into a 2nd PDF and numerous new official items have been added including Heavy weapons, The Cutting Beam, Cloaking, Damage Control System, Inertia Capacitor, Drive Field Stablizer, Charged Partical Drive, Gravametric Drives, Anti-Matter Drive, Jammer, and External Beam Weapons. And then there are about a dozen Optional Weapons. A third PDF contains reorganized tables and charts plus a full set of the new combat tables which were rebalanced and tweaked to correct of a couple of minor design errors we discovered in GSF. The three PDFs of ELITE contain 160+ pages of material including a Table of Contents and an Index.
As an electronic product, all errata are directly incorporated into the Elite PDF and periodically sent to all purchasers who have I have valid E-mail addresses for.
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Note that Elite is now superceded by Ultra Starfire.
Index - outline
Instead of listing the rule numbers/titles, I've tried to give a brief
overview of the type of changes.
Elite Designer Notes
Rule Changes to Sections
B Admirals "at risk"
C Simultaneous written movement
D Wreaks
Weapon Damage Types
WP Definitions
Detecting Units in SY
Surrendering (replacement)
AP changes
E Emergency Repairs (replacement)
Escorting (new)
Hidden Ground Bases and Silo Missiles (new)
L CFN Design changes
In-System CFN (replacement)
Colonists Available change
Ineffective Status (new)
No maintenance for SY, SYM, MS systems
Populations support defenses
System Patrol Information
M Landed SY build PDCs effeciently
Incomplete Units (clean up)
Prototype Designs Finalized after construction starts
New Class fee options
Using Captured Ground Industry
Early Completion
Refit/Repair Cost Change!
N Tech Data/Copy of Tech weaker
P (CC) links earn income
S Graded Leaders (complete replacement)
T Conquered (replacement)
Slave (replacement)
Forced Ally (replacement)
Subject (replacement)
New Defensive Allies may help
Time may allow Amalagamation
Amalgamation may create Reserve Capital
U Intelligence Gathering (complete replacement)
V Campaign Combat (complete replacement)
V1 Combat Considerations and Scale
V2 Commerce Raiding
V3 Ground Combat Preparation
V4 Ground Combat
V5 Conquered Planets
V6 Planetary Bombardment
W Elite Anomalies
Elite Nebulas
Tidelock Issues cleaned up
Y Y1-Y9 NPR Generation (reorganized, complete replacement)
Y1 NPR presence and EL
Y2 Homeworld Size
Y3 Government, stats, Race Design, and Leaders
Y4 Multiple NPR resolution
Y5 Population Placement
Y6 NPR Technology
Y7 Starting Treasury
Y8 Multi-System NPRs
Y9 Multi-System NPR Generation
Y12 NPR Home Fleet% change
New Rule Sections
Galactic Oddities
Alien Artifacts
Leftover Facilities
Miscellaneous Oddity
Planetary Destruction Event
Remnant Units
System Destruction Event
Survivor Civilization
Unusual Society
Warp Point Oddity
Random Events
Player Race Design
NPR Race Design
The J'Rill (complete Replacement)
J'Rill Tech (and Descriptions)
J'Rill2 Race Creation
J'Rill3 Race Organization
J'Rill Sample Designs (old)
High Level J'Rill
Sanitizing Asteroid Field WPs
Ultra Optional Rules
Uo1 Race Specific Tech
Uo2 NPR With Armed CFNs
Uo3 Unusual Life Forms
Uo4 Survey Crew Experience
Articles
Colonizing up a Storm
The Empire State Formation
{{And that is only part 1. Part 2 contains tech expanded to SL 25
and a reorganization of all tables into a more usable format.}}
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