Lol, I was thinking more the 'Maquis' for the Federation. Though personally the Terran Empire would be more interesting, and actually realistically have the same capital ships.

Perhaps a fictional 'Republic of Romulus' for the Romulans, Church of the Latter Day Warriors for Klingons, something Cardassian or Bajoran with the Dominion. I'm a bit curious as to how this 'rebel' thing would work. All I can think of is something similar to changing your government with a revolution in Empire Total War, when you lose either non-capital regions or the capital land, and whoever wins obtains the whole. Sounds like something that'd tick me off if half my planets are lost to 'rebels', and get my butt whooped by the enemy due to my suddenly poor economy.

Curious as to Titan class ships too. Sounds like something that'd be excruciatingly slow moving and available in the late game only.

Anyway keep up the great work, guys! Anxiously but patiently waiting for the next release! Take your time, too.

Oh Hello!

Is there a community of people playing this online? I would be interested in playing with some people every now and again if possible.

I'll admit I have not gone through all the pages, and I skimmed through the main post. So you can just say "read X" and save your...fingers.

They are indeed darkshimmer, and they're doing a damn fine job too.

Klingon trade ships seem broken, they spew missiles everywhere like mad and are able to take down fully upgraded miranda's very quickly, did you accidently add an extra '0' to their DPS? 

Also I think the borg need to be rebalanced a bit, they seem a bit too uber, most of the time I can just send a tactical/assimilator cube into a huge enemy fleet and it will win and/or assimilate most of their capital ships with little effort (especially dominion ones). Borg coffins on the other hand seem a bit underpowered/overpriced

One more thing, I'm getting a bug where my capital ships keep moving away from the enemy, it's getting really annoying as I have to keep telling them to go back, they will just carry on going in the opoosite direction forever otherwise: 

I like realistic balancing too and I agree - I usually hate it when something that's supposed to be nearly invincible in a tv show is nerfed to be just a bit better than other things in its related game, but in this situation it seems they're so overpowered there's no way to defeat them, a couple of cubes will completely obliterate anything in their path while adding more to the fleet each system they clear, even the combined force of multiple players won't defeat a bunch of cubes and assimilated capitals.

I'm currently playing as borg vs 3 unfair AI's that are allied with each other and so far I've utterly destroyed anything they throw at me and my fleet now consists of roughly 20+ capital ships from the other races, a few tactical cubes, spheres and assimilater cubes, the fleet does so much damage that warping in on a fully upgraded station or opponents fleet insta-kills them.

I've assimilated so many enemies that my support is somewhere around -4000. If the borg aren't meant to be a race you play with seriously (online) then that's fine, I like that, but if the borg are intended to be a balanced race, currently they're so extremely overpowered that you basically win the second the first cube has been built.

If it's possible - an alternate version of the mod could be made that has tv show balance, while the other has game balance, but I fear that'd be too much work for so little gain, but I'm just throwing it out there, personally I love the borg being this OP since it really does feel just like the show, but on the other side, there are people who'd want to play a balanced version of them for online games.

perhaps as hugh's borg?

harpo

yes shimmer we are still building the best startrek mod out there and the newly announced expansion is only fueling the fire to go where no man has gone before. Also fyi people we will be migrating to sins of a solar empire rebellion once its released . As me and several others are on  the beta list.

thanks jay

I've had no problms beating the Borg as a Romulin... but you need stealth, cunning, and the Black Vortex ability (found on the Rommie colony capital ship).  Use your cloak to get right on top of a Borg fleet, uncloak and hit them with the Black Vortex right off... this will disable the ships temporarily... then uncloak your fleet and hit them with everything you have...

The big trick is to use the Black Vortex manually... don't let the ships use it automatically or they'll all use it at once... Have 5-6 Rommie Colony Caps ready, then use 1 at a time... once the Borg come back online hit them with another ship's Black Vortex... over an over... if you are careful by the time you use the last ship's Black Vortex the 1st one should be nearly re-charged.

Another trick I like is dividing the Borg fleet... if they are too clumped together, perhaps getting ready to attack a neighboring planet, then take a cloaked ship into the gravity well, go as far to the other side of the gravity well a you can and uncloak...   This should provoke the Borg into attacking the cloaked ship... I've done it with 2 or 3 ships at a time, uncloaking and re-cloaking like Hide and Seek with the Borg...   Because the Borg ships move at different speeds it is actually possible to disperse the Borg fleet enough to hit just a few at a time and get out again...

You can't take on the Borg 1 vs 1... or even 5 vs 1, by using brute force...   But you can beat them if you think like a Rommie... stealthy, sneaky, cunning...

Well the answer to that is in your map selection.

You can't go into a 1 vs. 1 map that's so tiny that you're butting up against the borg in the first few minutes of the game - they will eviscerate you.  You need to pick a map large enough that you can get out into the galaxy and build up your resources before you are regularly clashing with them.  As Jim notes, you need to have a few cap ships in your fleet if you're going to stand the slightest chance against them.

that usually happens due to a bug, I ran into it when testing ZombieRus's Sins of the Fallen before he released it.

They were probably fixed before the other sides were added in.

The particularly bad offenders are those 8km range ships being chase by 3km range ships of significant agility.  They're actually leading to indefinite pursuits even while turning about.

This shouldn't be a big problem when the diplomacy version comes out.  I think I've cleaned up all of the range issues.

Thanks for the description on the range bug, looking forward to the next ver.