Just thought I'd share, I bought the game just to play the MOD. And I have to say, great job. Can't wait to see the finished version, keep up the good work.

New Quantum Torp Below

I guess the biggest tweak I'd like to see is levels for capital ships.  There is argument for this, because on several TNG episodes it was mentioned that Geordi LaForge had tinkered to get Enterprise to do things that were above and beyond the original system specs.  Likewise, on Voyager, there were plenty other enhancements that went beyond Voyager's system specs, like the command protocol for the doctor, or a number of other items.  This could be simulated in a more comprehensive setup for levels for capital ships, as well as a more comprehensive set of abilities for various ships.

That said, I've been tinkering around with the Federation files to give everyone an example of what I mean.  (I don't know Klingon ships very well, but I'm sure you guys could figure it out).  I changed some supply issues, and corrected prices for these ships to what I thought they should be. (no offense, but they seemed very low!)

Keep in mind, on any mod I've done, I use the retail release entity files as a baseline - a point of reference.  For the most part, I think the retail is fairly balanced....anywho...here's what I came up with;

 NOTE: YOU HAVE TO SCROLL THIS HORIZONTALLY>>>> SORRY!

 As you can see, I've tweaked pretty much everything down the line.  Since pretty much every ship is research based (not sure I agree with that decision) I emphasized that the Ambassador class (I think that's mispelled - not sure) is the basic cap ship. Tech wasn't that great, so regen rates, mitigation, etc....they are all very "plain"...aka vanilla, but as you research other ships, they become more resilient, and even have different attributes.  For example, the galaxy's shields regenerate faster, has a larger anti-matter pool, and the anti-matter regenerates faster.

Some things I'd like to see for abilities (you could rename them for immersion purposes, but effects would be similar;

- animosity/taunt for sovereign - simulates the fact that most enemiese would "gun for" it, being the premier warship it is - and the biggest threat.

- Shield Regenerate for Sovereign & Galaxy - you could reduce shield restoration and replace that with this ability...same idea (and might put some depth into your cap ships)

- Missile barrage/missile swarm for nebula - this would be feasible...it does seem the nebula loves its missiles!

- Speed boost for defiant - C'mon...it strafes.  Speed is pretty important.

Well...that's about all the ideas I have had thus far, but I think they aren't bad ones....but I'd love to see more depth into the cap ships.

All you have to do is when you log in (and you're dumped in the lobby) just go to change/create channel, and type in a name for a new channel, and hit 'accept'.  Your channel is created, and people can log onto it just like any other channel.

make the abilities and send them to the email address above

Thanks to all that tried to help me.I found out that curry file I guess was messing up mu extraction and went in and manually extracted all the files.It almost works but I still cant get it.Now instead of blank the icon spots are just a big block of whatever color I am.All ships spots(where u build them) is white.Since there is a new patch coming I guess I will wait for it and see if it works.

Technically speaking, it would be super easy to give the same abilities to Klingons as well.  Sorta copy and paste.

I have the Engine/Shields/Weapon boost abilities in for ALL capital ships.  I'm testing them tonight.  If it goes well, I'll email the files in, in the morning.

I also added a few specialized abilities to the fed ships.  If darkshimmer & company like my work, I'll turn my attention towards the klingon ships and figure what specialized abilities best fit them.

Actually, things are going quite well tonight.  I have most of the abilities done, and a few hours of testing done, but I've run into a few hiccups.  I might not be able to email them the files until Sunday evening or Monday.

Edited: 3:30 A.M. EST

I just finished another portion of a game that has to this point lasted 23 hours.  I have esentially played to a stalemate with two pinch points on the map pretty much garded by starbases with 305000 shield, not to mention what ever they have for hull points.  Can't seem to do much more than about 5 to 7000 points of damage with large fleets before having to retreat.  I also have some starbases which have maxed out at 150000 shield points.  What determines a starbases max shield? why would one have 305000 max after max research, where another only maxes out at 150000? What's the criteria? Thanks...

I'm noticing an odd problem

I've been playing for some 2 hours now and have just encountered the klingons

But for some reason they weren't attacking my ships, I could attack them, but they didnt' fire back

The pirates are also doing the same, I'm currently bombing their base and destroying their ships and they're just sitting there

I scouted a klingon world, which had a starbase and a couple of frigates and was able to attack them with a consituition class ship and they didn't respond heh.

I emailed the cap ship abilities.  Waiting for some good feedback, and to see if they'll be included in the mod.

I kinda noticed this as well.  It seemed they were running.  I would enter their system, start attacking planetary structures, and the couple of ships they had there RAN.  I did this to 3-4 of their planets...this was on EASY difficulty (wanted to test the waters first), and didn't think anything of it, really. 

Now I'm trying another game on medium to see if that changes anything...

I also noticed that fights between ships, if left unattended, end up far beyond the gravity well of the planet in which it originates.  This is due to the fact that the ships DO NOT turn around (e.g. strafe), but keep running.  Not sure how to fix this, but that isn't very good...I can't pay attention to every battle - especially the insignificant ones.  At the same time, I can't let a battle go for 30 minutes because some idiot captain can't get it into his/her head to turn around to utilize their forward phaser banks & torp tubes, lol.