The Borg are intentionally overpowered. This was our plan from day one. Especially for Diplomacy. The Borg are meant to be balanced vs all four other factions combined, and if you let them tech up then they are meant to be unstopable. This turns the game into beat the clock along with forcing you to make allies to defeat the borg. Things havent went exactly as planned, but we are ironing out the flaws. Some may remain because of the nature of sins itself. If i had my way (and the knowledge along with free time) i would make a new game from scratch that avoided all of the sins roadblocks. However we are just modders, and not programmers. So we do the best with what we have to work with, and what we know how to do. Suffice to say the SoA 2 team has done an outstanding job in my absense. I wish i could do more to help, but the free time is just not there. You dont know how frustraiting that is.

The range problem is that all sins ships when set to dynamic movement will always try to move to their maximum range before they fire their weapons. So the ships with a longer firing range will move away to reach its maximum range while the shorter ranged, and faster ships chase them. This creates the situation of ships chasing each other outside of the gravity wells (this includes ships with aft firing weapons). The way to fix this is to make all weapon ranges the same, or have the gap between short, medium , and long range narrowed.

So far I really like how the BORG are behaving.  In fact the last couple of updates you've done I noticed a couple of disturbingly intelligent moves on the AI's part... hehe.

The only thing I don't like is the new, smaller Uni-complex.  I liked the older gigantic one, that was terrifying...

I agree with Stress...  the Borg becomes a race against the clock.  If you can engage them earlier rather than later, you can really hurt them.  However, if you wait until they start cranking out cubes, and start upgrading their bases and weps, they start getting insanely hard fast. They have compensated for the borg's late game uber'ness by making things like research stations very very expensive, and take many slots, which I think makes it okay.  If the borg is to get to the cube phase, they have to have a lot of planets.

I too miss the Unicomplex where every time you upgrade it, becomes larger.  I imagine they have good reason they took it out, which is fine with me.

lol thought u were balancing them:P

fyi all posted new download links in op above. must have dip 1.19f 

enjoy 

live long and prosper

LOL - an unfinished mod for an unfinished patch 

i have not balanced the mod at all since my last attempt to assist was shot down because it was "too complicated"...lol i walked away at that point, but it balanced out everything....lol

i do have a re-suggestion to help you guys out with the "fighting outside the bounds of system space". Long time ago i explained there were certain factors making them do this like # of attackers, speed, weapon ranges, and mesh size bounds. I've seen it the most with capital ships they are slow to accelerate, turn, and always want range. 

I noticed that, they should have waited for the full version of the latest patch.

Someone shoot me...

calm down its ok buddy, i do have to keep all of the team on there toes dont i

I think I found the glitch, you can fix it yourselves, assuming I'm right, by going into the gameplay.constants file and editing the rebellion settings.  FrigateKlingonRebelHeavy should be FrigateKlingonHeavy.  Legacy entry from the Entrenchment version that somehow evaded a six hour AI game.

If i were balancing the mod you would NEVER be able beat the Borg. Even with all the factions combined muahahaha!

You released it for Diplomacy?!.. I am always the last one to find out anything :/

Dip 1.2 is out, and not much has changed with it since 1.19f. Just double check the researches, and gameinfo (beyond compare would be good right now).

When are you coming back to EvE Shimmer?

yes they got swamped, too much traffic.

harpo