Melee wouldn't work against the Borg.  One jab with a nanoprobe and its all over.

Love that pic Stress 

Hows this 1

Wow things seem to have heated up here recently. Love the facepalm picture btw. Regarding Starbase Assimilation, as I said it was only a suggestion, balance permitting. If you don't feel it can be balanced I don't have a problem with it staying out- in all honesty it wouldn't make a massive difference. Regarding the ability "immunity", didn't really mean to spawn an argument over the Borg here either lol. 

Was watching some of the old TNG episodes, and thought of adding the "Picard Manoeuvre" to the Constellation class by tweaking the Marzas Missile barrage and the Nebula's Genesis Clone ability. To cut a long story short, I clearly don't know enough about how to mod for Sins, so I failed. But I'll leave it here as a suggestion if anyone more capable has the free time/ inclination to want to work on it.

Stress, keep up the good work, I know I speak for most of us when I say we can't wait for the diplomacy version. Though take as long as you need to do it, we'll try not to pressure you .

Actually, there's already an ability that will teleport a starship toward a target within a gravity well, which I think belongs to one of the Visari ships.  It can either be used as is or add some additional buffs for increased weapon damage.  Either would would be a piece of cake to include.

Sparda my comments were not meant for you.

The Borg in every trek episode except endgame, and scorpion ( i didnt bother to watch unimatrix ) were the "Oh my god we are all gonna die" borg. That is the kind of borg we want to portray in the mod. However we are not making them "invincible". Only Very powerful as they should be. We are trying to make it to where you must use at least "some" diplomacy to form alliances. So you are better able to defeat the borg. It will be possible to defeat them solo. Just VERY difficult. Especially if you let them tech up. The balancing vs all four factions would probably still make the borg "weak" compared to how they should be. I mean if one cube can mow through a 50 ship fleet without a scratch (BOBW), or with very little damage (1st contact). Imagine the power of the entire collective. This is intended to be an epic battle between the combined armadas of the four factions vs the entire borg collective. Not just one cube. IIRC the Voyager bridge crew needed a change of pants when they saw 15 cubes show up.

I like the picard maneuver idea. Will like it better if it can be made to work (without causing dev errors).

The borg are the extreme opposite of the feds. The feds utopianism, and diplomacy skills are useless vs borg. Only their brains, ability rally other factions to their cause, and to "outsmart" enemys will be effective.

Nope, too slow.  Worf even smoked one while in a zero g space suit with severely restricted movement.  They're too tough to be wrestling with them unless you're Data, but rending into pieces works quite well for Klingons from what we've seen.

I'll see if I can work some magic this evening.

Come to find out there was already a Picard Maneuver in the game.  Go figure!  I've spent so much time modeling and texturing that I haven't even bothered to see what the end-result is turning out like.  Anyhow, the ability was just the bare bones; basically, it just simulated the warp jump with no reference to the true cleverness behind the maneuver, which was to create the momentary double of the Stargazer and throw the enemy sensors off.

You'll be glad to know that it now simulates the instantaneous warp jump, the sensor double (and a true illusionary ship), throws the enemy's targeting sensors off, and gives the Constellation class a momentary element of surprise that enables its weapons a small chance to drain some antimatter or to momentarily knock out warp drive, impulse engines, or weapons systems.  Testing will be necessary to make sure everything is balanced (numbers can be tweaked for all parts of the ability), but the Picard Maneuver is now ingame and nearly 100% accurate to the show. 

You can wait for it in the next mini-patch, or I suppose I could be convinced to pack just the necessary files and upload...

Wow thanks for that! Didn't realise it was already in the game, but glad that its been made accurate nontheless .

Regarding all those (mostly cardie) ships without a description, do you have descriptions for them yet or do you still want someone to whip some up? I think I can manage that without dumping sins.

hello all

 yes we actually have several abilities in game that are specifically designed for this mod to bring various innovations in technology to the different races. ie picard mauever, tractor beam, borg tractor beam and countless others  But will take any user submissions and look at how they will intergrate with the mod if applicable.  Also contact me mystic wanna chat about a few things I have been holding off on working on soa2 waiting on models from the team i have recieved a few more and will try and have them ingame within the next few days  real life allowing thanks josh

don't feel to bad stress. while i got the balance  system reworked i only have 1/3 of the ships entered in, but they still need some tweekin, figure i'd do that last and see what happens. be my guest to look at it if you want. tell me if its easier for you to read.

Mystic, I've pm'd you some of those ship class descriptions. Hope you like them.

Agreed , I am still waiting on models from some of the team, I also want to implement the 1/2 scale in the 0.4e series. I also have a few ideas i want to bring to your attention can you contact me via messenger or phone thanks josh