And now comes the part of the mod i was dreading... People nit picking the balancing of an incomplete mod so much that we will spend too much time fixing the balancing issues instead of finishing the mod itself.

Not that i am complaining. We do need the feedback, but c-mon guys THINK. Whole forum pages full of low priority balance issues on an incomplete mod. After we stated MANY times that the mod is incomplete, and not properly balanced yet. We have a bug tracking site that you can use instead of wasting the forum space here for these issues. The links in the main topic, and YES we do check it often, and YES we DO use it. Please post the low priority balance issues there. Our main focus now is to finish the mod. As in get the remaining units in the game, and working. Then we can nit pick the balancing till doomsday, and i will join in on the nit picking

Main focus of the mod for the 0.5 series..

1) Fix issues with existing meshes (flipped faces, get rid of nasty texture seems, and other misc mesh errors).

2) Retexture models that have way to low resolution textures (the entire dominion lineup, some klingon, and romulan ships).

3) Get rid of the placeholder 3rd party models, and effects. Replace them with the SoA 2 teams own original artwork. This will mean rebuilding some of the existing work from scratch, but with the great talant on the team i think between all of us we can pull it off, and make SoA 2 truly ours. I always wanted an excuse to build a new constitution, and miranda model. Now i got an excuse.

Balancing, and nit picking will be reserved for the 0.6-0.9 series. When we get to those builds you can get your geek on, and nit pick away.

Then we can enjoy the final 1.0 release.

Yes it is confirmed the current installer creates two instances of an SoA 2 folder. One inside the other. Just move the inner SoA 2 folder to your mods-1.05 folder, and delete the extra empty SoA 2 folder. We will fix this asap.

Stress,

The only actual bug I've spotted so far is missing icons for the Romulin Star base constructor & starbase. 

Loving the mod. If 0.4E is this good, imagine how good v1 will be

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OK, so it wasn't just me... interesting... the AI is getting smart!  I agree, the Unicomplex is not invulnerable... just real close.  I'm wondering if one race alone can take them down???  You almost have to have allies... which fits the storyline anyway. 

Your problem was probably that you set the AI type on Random.

Note that you separately control AI difficulty (easy, medium, hard, unfair) and AI strategy (aggresive, defensive, research, economic).

If you set the AI strategy to aggressive, you will have a much more difficult game than if you set it to anything else.

Thus if you left AI strategy as "random," chances are that the borg was aggressive and the other races were something else.  Try setting more opponents to "aggressive" and see what you get.

-Multiplayer Game

I still intend to host a multiplayer time at the time listed above (2pm US Eastern/1pm US Central/7pm UK)

Nobody give me grief over the fact that I had the central time wrong all week - you didn't notice either.

Yeah, but only 600 though, and you lose a ship.  I did find that the Akira has Tricobalt torpedoes, does 1250 damage at 15000, now with enough of those...  you could put a very serious dent in anything.

Guys the problems with the AI are not the mods fault. The Sins AI is hard coded. Which means we cant do a damn thing with it. It is a hit or miss, but the Hardest Aggressive AI will have the least amount of issues starting up, and are less likely to freeze. We do not know why the AI is freezing up now. Since we duplicated sins roletypes and statcountypes to the letter. Most of my games if i set all factions to hardest agressive AI they will all build expand. Not all at once but they do get going a little faster.

Do not be afraid to play the hardest AI. Its just like the easy AI except a little bit more aggresive. You can defeat it just like the easy AI.

Setting to anything other than aggresive seems to not work that well.. Again we do not know why. We did everything we could do to mimic sins in that respect. So we are at a total loss as to why the AI is failing us. We need a sins developer to figure this one out.

I didn't mean to insinuate that the AI's behavior is the mods fault...  I have that exact same problem with the other mods I play as well.  On normal, they are more stand offish than I have grown to like.  I have played a few hard games, and really like the fact the AI won't just mass ships on the edge of a grav well and wait for me to jump in.

As far as I can tell Vulture, this is a problem with the Sins engine A.I., which makes it not the modders fault/perrogative to fix since it is hard-coded.  The best answer I can give you is to wait for the release of Diplomacy's version, since Diplomacy has many more difficulty settings (three higher difficutly tiers if I remember right).

On a different note, I just came from the moddb mod of the year awards (GOD I can remember when Stress used to host a site there).  I mention it here in passing because there are several RTS's that I do follow that are hosted there, and two of them (namely COH: Eastern Front and M2TW: Third Age Total War), were the ONLY RTS'S to receive recognition in the entire community (this includes all mods based on FPS engines and all indie games that were similar to FPS's that won or were the other mentions).

I just can't believe the beligerant position that site takes in it's stance that only FPS's get recognized, and I am glad that you guys aren't there anymore.  It should be called FPSmoddb .

No, QTD is right. ModDB only gives support to the FPS community, and only if the modders can code a game like a professional developer. They expect the modders there to be "professional" modders. Hell if i was "professional" do you honestly think i would be just modding this game? Hell no! I would MAKE a trek game that would make STO look like a disney show for three year olds. ModDB pretty much thumbs their noses up at the average hobbyist. Which is what we are. A bunch of guys that got together, and decided to do this as a hobby. Yet people say we made a better mod than most of the "professional" trek games. Perhaps because we give a damn about trek, and the game, and we arent doing this to make a quick buck like the other "professionals". Our target audience are the Adults. Not tweens, not 10 year olds. You wont find women in cat suits with fake floater boobs here. You wont find cheesy themes, or root beer bubbly federation types here. This mod is about war. More importantly the conflicts and animositys that started this war, and how each faction deals with it.

I still update the page there. Why should the community suffer because of my beef with them? I really dont give a damn anymore what ModDB thinks of us. I just use them for free web space.

ModDB is like a bad punchline.