LordAvalon: Captain's Edition is awesome. Yes, it's harder than vanilla, but that's a good thing, IMO. So many new weapons & augments to learn. You don't pick up free crew as easily, so have to consider reserving scrap to hire at stores or stations.

gogcoon: So far I quite like this mod. It gives FTL a whole lot more variety and surprises, but it seems it's also a lot harder than the base game. I get roflstomped far more often now. :D That's a good thing though as it makes me consider emergency jumps more often and the game becomes more desperate overall as well. Especially some of the new missile launchers are very mean. Furthermore I'm more frequently running out of fuel now, but maybe that has been just bad luck so far, dunno.

The Better Planets and Backgrounds mod is a neat addition to the CE mod too. The new nebular background and the city planets need some getting used to imo but it's pretty.

squid830: While salivating over the up-coming awesomeness that will surely be the Advanced Edition, I came across the FTL Captain's Edition:

http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15663

Full details at the link, but in summary it adds new sectors, new ships, new tactics (apparently) for the enemies, new weapons, new drones (28 different types!), space stations (basically massive ship hulls that don't move with lots of weapons and high hull - can be boarded and/or destroyed), new augmentations (including one that allows manufacturing missiles on the ship at an empty beacon!), and a trade system (currently kludged into the existing framework, so need to resist exploiting it), plus larger/more numerous/more deadly rebel fleet (that is apparently REALLY deadly now if they catch up to you), lots of new events, and some other abilities (e.g. using things the enemy uses on you, such as hacking life support systems).

So it appears to be have the amount of new content one would expect from a total conversion mod, yet it appears to still stick to the original FTL in terms of goals and gameplay - just adding lots of juicy stuff. Some of which sounds similar to the Advanced Edition features...

At any rate, I don't know how the hell I managed to overlook this until now - the current version has been out since mid 2013.

I haven't had a chance to try it out yet - just thought I'd share in case others are in the same boat and wanted something to tide them over until the Enhanced Edition comes out.

At any rate, I assume someone on here has already found this and tried it long before I posted this? If so, what are your thoughts on this mod? It might be a while before I get a chance to dive back into FTL, but wouldn't mind people's opinions of how good this is gameplay/balance wise.

SilentHunterUK: Can you confirm how you add this to the GOG version please, because I'm not sure I've done it right.

squid830: Wow, hope you haven't been trying to do this for the last three years and are only now asking for help... ;)

If you're talking about adding CE or any other mod, the best place is to check is the place you grabbed the mod from, or checking the readme. It's been ages since I've added anything to my copy of FTL, and newer versions of these mods are no doubt out (which may have different requirements now).

BTW with respect to modding there should be no difference between the GOG version and any other version, except possibly the installation directory.