Hence the problem.   Bug fixes there be, but the update was primarily to make the mod compatible with 1.30, thus incompatible with 1.21.

For the rest, I don't do graphics, but Stress mentioned something about the warp effect being wrong, and he's fixing it.

Did you update than 1.21 release, or did you update the buggered version put out a while back?

When you extracted, did you verify that you actually updated the files, or did you simply copy a containing folder into the directory?  If you also downloaded the 1.21a patch and did the same thing, you'd still have overwrites despite the faulty install.

Ok, that's your problem.  You patched 1.19, which is horribly broken, with 1.31.  Do a clean install of 1.21, and patch it with 1.3.

An oddity that might of been caused by having a buggy version of the game.  I was playing before the most recent patch.  An AI(Normal) was playing as the Romulans.  After I finished the game I went back to watch the game.  At first I couldn't find their starting capital ship.  Then on one of the planets that looked like it had been cleared away by the Romulans I noticed a strange occurrence.  I watched a V1 warbird flying away from the planets' gravity well.  I couldn't figure out what it was doing but off in the distance.  I found out what, much further a ways than it should ever be possible was their starting capital ship.  It was sitting there with one of the local defenders right behind it shooting it in the tail.  It seemed stuck as if it was trying to make a long circular turn but went to far out and got stuck.  It didn't seem like it could move except it was steadily moving forward away from the planet.  

It was slowly being killed by the defense vessel, the Romulan AI, didn't take this lightly and all in all dispatched 35 V1 warbirds to try and destroy the defense vessel.  However it seemed like they could never catch up.  At one point in time they were so far away from the planet you couldn't see the Romulan capital ship any more, it would disappear if you tried to find it.

I had to leave so andI couldn't finish the replay, I have no idea what happened to the capital ship or the 35 warbirds that followed it along its path.  I am not sure if they all got stuck there or what happened.  I finished playing the game before the latest patch and I don't think I can review the game any more.  All in all, I feel sorry for the AI and their lost ships what a way to go, trapped in what I guess was glitched phase lane.

If this helps the map was a custom map I had created with the built in creation editor, nor for sure if that had any thing to do with it.

quick problem...when you select the players for the game..eg which faction you want to play and the symbol and colour of your logo, sometimes the style of logo stays but the colour very rarely in game is the one i select..so say if i choose federation and a blue starfleet com-badge symbol, when i start the game i usually end up with a different coloured com-badge symbol..and sometimes its not even the symbol that s correct either...any info or will this be fixed in the..what i presume will be 1.4 update?

ooo..2 posts in a row here (Sry)

So anyhow, I have been reading a lot about the mod and it seems everyone talks about how overpowered the Borg are.  So, up until today I never had them in a game but finally I decided why not.  So I played a game with myself as Fed, allied with Klingons with The Dominion, Romulans and Borg (all on their own teams).  No diplomacy/team switching allowed.  The Klingons, Borg and Romulans were on Hard and the Dominion was on Unfair.

Long story short, the Borg are tough...like, plenty tough.  But they didnt wipe me out and really only pushed me back a minor amount before I was able to reclaim a couple territories from them.  Now I will admit, when I came across a UniMatrix....I crapped my pants, saved, and quit cause THAT seemed unfair.  But just now I got up the gumption to go in the with a BIG OL fleet to see what would happen and, guess what, I blew it to bits.  Lost many ships and I was vunerable at home since most of my fleet was on the "mission" but still I won.

Bottom line..the Borg are tough..just as they should be!  I dont see much need to change em.

SoA2 Borg are powerful by design, and intention. Some have a lot of trouble dealing with them. While others may have no trouble at all. Knowing your enemy, and yourself, Strategy, and a little luck have a lot to do with it. We designed the SoA2 borg to where if one single faction fought them they would be very VERY difficult to defeat.

The developer intention was to make the Borg to where you would almost need all four of the other factions to fight them. Single player game could consist of you playing as the feds. Along with AI, or Human controlled Klingons, Romulan, and Dominion. The Borg would be a locked AI faction, because it is all but impossible to form diplomatic relations with the Borg. As the game progresses you would skirmish with all factions until you built up enough diplomatic points to form alliances. The Feds have the advantage in Diplomacy. You may, or may not be able to form alliances with all four factions.

By this point in time all should be teched up enough for the "real" fighting to begin. Playing vs AI Borg is like playing "beat the clock". The more you allow them to tech up. The harder it will be to beat them. If they get cubes on the map you will need all the help you can get. If the Borg by small chance manage to max out their research, then you, and your allies deserve to get your ass's handed to you. The Borg do not research like the rest of the factions. Their labs cost more in both resources, and logistics. This was by design to make them research more slowly than other factions. To show how "methodical" they can be. This will allow you to tech up enough to where you can do some damage to the Borg, and slow them down while you make allies that can help you defeat them.

While you can do it. Playing as Borg is not intended. The Borg are meant as an AI faction, but by the nature of Sins we had to make them a playable race. I usually play as Borg just for fun to clear out the map in a ridiculously short time, and to see how AI versions of the other factions play out.

any luck with the strings that cannot be found

The Nebula-class's Gemini effect shows up as an Intrepid-class, except for the actual holographic model?

Good stuff. Looking forward to it.

Good stuff.

Yeah another thing i noticed that i have forgotten abouth : the dominion orbital weapon platforms take up 2 slots, is this really worth it? Stats wise some of the others that cost just 1 seems better.