Scope, another option could be to set your fleet size to Large.  Though the fleet supply amount in game will say one thing, you will have a larger amount than what it says you are researching.

Also, I don't know if you'll be able to read this Zonek, but I like the new Wolf 359 map.  I do have a couple questions for you.

You have Risa as a Class F (volcanic) slag heap, and Betazed is a desert world, is this right?  I am assuming you wanted to do this for balance sakes, but you should probably choose better planet names (since this map obviously represents a small portion of the quadrant, rather than a full blown system(s) ).

Other than that, it's great just as it is (I like how Wolf 359 is the Bottleneck).  I wanted to try it out from the Borg's perspective, so I saved the game and went back in and plaeyed as the Borg (though this disabled the Federation team I was originally playing as).  It might be better as a two on one, or maybe giving team 1's side a few more prospective resource planets, because as it stands, they are having trouble when it comes to me taking Wolf 359.  I dunno, your call .

On the subject of the federation ships having a high supply cost, i think that it's actually alright for the fed because it suits that the federation are supposed to be explorers and usually have their ships operate individually. This suits me well as i will usually just have individual cap ships travelling round taking on enemies and then when overwealmed by the enemy they retreat and try to link up with a fleet to  make a desperate stand

sounds great! with diplomacy is it perfect.

So if the borg are spending their resources on fleet logistics, could this be down to the "Assimilation power"? The Borg assimilate pirates/frigates etc and realise that they are over their fleet number (minus) so they research fleet logistics thus crippling their economy.

If this is the case, one solution would be to lower the effectiveness of assimilation or find another work around.

If this is the problem.

Well the Borg are super-efficient, so just give them a much higher fleet cap than everyone else, or (even scarier), make their penalties for each fleet supply level less. You just can't nerf assimilation (apart from stopping it being able to target cloaked ships), that's what makes the Borg so freaking scary. If they're meant to be strong, let them be strong.

I've also noticed the fleet cap being a problem for the Borg AI, as once you're crippled at losing 75% of your income, and fighting a war, the AI simply refuses to research/ build cubes. That being said, most of the factions have a fleet cap issue, but with the Borg it's seriously compounded by having far more expensive everything.

Loki, is there a chance you could increase their resource gain from the tech tree twice as quick (ie up to half of where it is now), and then leave the rest on that tree to decrease the cost of their ships/ structures? (apart from UniComplexes obviously).

Zulukiller, I like the idea of the militant "defense barrier", but it doesn't really solve the problem.

I'll have to be honest, I made that map very quickly and put little thought into the names. I choose famous and recognisable planets (whom incidently all seem to be m-class planets) to fill up name slots. I found it very hard to find specific information concerning volcanic or desert planets without having excellent knowledge of star trek or astronomy, which I don't have. I really wanted to make it feel like the 'allies' were holding the line at wolf 359 against an economic and tactical superior borg; but i'll test out 2vs1 and see what happens. With the latest SOA2 patch borg seem alot stronger so i will go back and look at the map again. I'm glad to hear your enjoying it. :]

p.s. I am I able to play SOA2 if I buy diplomacy? (obviously SOA2 still in the entrenchment 1.05 mod folder and running the entrenchment .exe)

Actually  the starbases around the stars gravity wells is at least 4 starbases already, maybe more hehehe.

This mod is great!

Just a quick question though. This may sound silly, but does this new patch only fix the asteroid bug? Or does it change more? I've looked through some of this discussion, but its pretty large

Anyway, keep up the good work!

you will need to download both the Soa2 0.4.2e  aswell as the patch for asteroids.  Combined both of those files represent the most current public release of Soa2.

thanks jtaylorpcs

Yes its is for 1.05 , sorry about the read me we must have missed that, However in the op above it does state that it is for 1.05, Also moving forward we WILL NOT SUPPORT any issues that are related to 1.041. Simply uprgrade to 1.05 via impulse.  The latest build was built for 1.05 and might have unknown issues in 1.041

thanks jtaylor

ps

thanks for the heads up in the read me

I dont think ANY map shown on the shows is canonical, because every map they show had the empires and locations different with each version. One map the klingon empire is on the left side and the romulans on the right of the federation. Next we have both the klinks and rommies on the left in much smaller areas, and the star locations all screwed up. So i wouldnt put much wieght in the so called canon maps.

I thought i already updated the readme! Grrrrrrrr the vortex got it again.

We will upload a combined version of the mod later on so you dont have to screw around with a patch.

They're taken at different angles, or maybe through a prism, it's completely logical!

Hello, I sometimes post here followed the mod for quite some time.

Tried the lastest version, really enjoying it. There is something I discovered when playing the Dominion. The capital ships do not zoom in as close as other races cap ships, for example the Galaxy class you can zoom in quite close and enjoy the model or a batlle from a very close perspective but the Dominion capital ships zoom level stops at a certain range.

This is not a rant as I found out what was causing it, you probably already know how to correct this but i thought I would share to save you looking.

In the mesh file for some of the Dominion Capital ships I opened it with notepad and saw that the line "BoundingRadius" was set to a number like 2000 but other races ships were set to around 400. Changing this from 2000 to around 400 corrects the zooming cap for Dominion Capitals.

In addition I have worked on some of the sound files for my own personal use as some were very very loud and I have reduced the output for the sound to level them out and replaced some eg. borg cutting beam really drowned out other ships weapons fire due to the high pitch, changed it for another borg beam sound. Played some games with the new sound files and everything sounds a more level. If you would like I would be happy to submit the updated files to help out with the mod. Obviously your under no obligation to use them, just thought I would try to help out.

Let me know if your interested (p.s not worked on the engine sounds yet as they are a little loud also hehe) 

p.s. there is one thing I am trying to figure out atm, when grouped with a fleet frigates stay close to the capital ship even if I order them to spread out, they used to engage enemies when I order the fleet to spread out, now they stay close together no matter what I order them to do. Any throughts?

Also a fleet of ships only tend to target 1- 5 vessels once a group has destroyed one ship they will sit around for about 1-2 seconds before deciding to attack another ship. AI lag perhaps?