I got the error during extraction .

Your shield restore functions are hosed because you have an area buff and only one target, so it buffs itself and does nothing for the damaged shields around the platform.

not sure why so many CRC errors are occuring, the second uploaded i tested on my pc and my laptop neither of which got an error, so either the file is being currupted on upload or its currupting from your extractor

Bit of a gameplay bug here, the pirate raids are using the Sins ships, pirate corsairs etc.

Where do you guys want us asking about balance issues?  Here or on the google page?

Just had my first full game and I thought it was excellent. The Klingon starbase looks great, I think it is perfectly scaled. Also amazing work on the smoke trails (I love the hull breaches too lol - amazing!). Top work on the tech trees - it makes it into a proper game as opposed to just a sandbox.

I actually almost prefer the Pirates being Sins ships - I always thought it looked a bit silly to have Federation ships flying around with the Breen etc. (I know you could say they've been captured and used by Pirates, but I'd rather have a different race as the pirates tbh).

I've uploaded the Curry file for anyone who needs it separately:

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Turn off the team color mesh in the options menu.

thats the first i thought but its turned off. nothing....

and its only at klingon ships. pretty strange

The Fed starbase isn't available for building.  If you're referring to the research station or Jupiter station, those function as the Temple of Harmony and Temple of Hostility, respectively.  So, I wouldn't be surprised if a fully upgraded Neg'Var took one out in one shot. 

On a totally separate note, I have a question for someone from the mod team.  In the vanilla version of the mod the weapon damage in the entity files was fairly consistent from "front" to "back" and to each side.  But in the new version I see that the numbers vary greatly for many ships.  I think it has to do with the number of hard points that are facing each direction, but I'm not totally sure.  My guess is that it's meant to create equal damage for each hardpoint.

Second, how exactly is the weapon damage we see on the infocard related to the weapon damage in the entity fiiles?  Obviusly there are some discrepencies, such as damage over time for beam weapons and delay between shots, etc.  I only ask if there is some type of formula (as it seems there is based on what you've done with the directional weapon damage I mention above).  If there's no formula, there's no need to worry about it, though. 

Any clues on these will help me out a LOT!  Thanks!

Thanks mongoose, it looks like the shields and stuff on the starbase were upgraded for SoA.  But seriously, the torpedos say they do 3352 damage at level 10, yet they are taking out starbases with around 12x that much shields/hull, not to mention armor and shield mitigation.

Good work, guys!

A couple of observations:

1. I see you made all of the weapons/defense research up stats by ~10-20 percent.  When you have this for weapons and defense, the ships tend to get exponentially more powerful (seen this a lot in other mods), which is a little unfair to the smaller ships and makes using them pointless (was 1701-D really 20X the ship 1701 was?  10X the worth of an Excelsior?).  It also tends to make the game a race to build weapons research stations, which tilts the game in favor of a guy next to a desert planet with its greater logistics slots.  I would recommend either scaling this back a bit (by reducing the jump in HP/SP/damage for the research and the higher ship classes), or, alternatively, you could make 2-step research to slow down the min time to get to the max ships and skills.
2. The damage of Klingon ships relative to one another doesn't seem to be right.  The Brel bird-of-prey is far more powerful than any other frigate or cruiser, and dirt-cheap to boot.  The difference between Klingons winning the day and being scattered before the Steamrunners/Akiras is whether you invest in Brels. 
   
3. Klingon ships described as carriers have no birds.  Don't know if this is something you intend to fix in a later mod, but figured I'd mention it.
4. Where did you get the music - it's great.  I recognize most of it from the Star Trek soundtracks, but there was one or two songs in there (during scaled in battles) that was reminiscent of the theme from The Rock or Pirates of the Carribean.  It was a perfect fit.  I also noted you had some of the soundtrack from Star Trek II in there - give the rest of the ST2 soundtrack a listen, it would be great for replacing what little music you still have from the Vanilla sins.
   

I gotta agree with some of the concerns for balancing weapons and weapon research.  Torpedo's are insane, it's very easy to take out ships or stations with focus fire and a volley of torps.

Also, in regards to the colour mesh thing, there is another team colour options menu in the main options.  Make sure you un-click it from both the User Interface options and the Effects options.

(I think information like that should be edited in the main post, heh)