Just fine, and this isn't an error.  The ability can be interrupted early, 20 seconds is good for a duration, not for a cooldown when it's restoring 2k shields over that time

That's because the starbase isn't Dominion, but Cardassian.  As such, it's armed with Cardassian phasers and plasma torpedoes.

Is it enough to only install the .03 update, or do I have to install the prior patch too?

when talking with a friend of mine about the mod, he asked "why weapons & shield are not dependent on Antimatter?".

Quite intriguing thought. You might look into this?

In the early days of the mod we mulled over antimatter usage, and warp travel. Sins was originally designed with open maps, and orbiting planets. Which would have been great for us, because we could have implemented a galactic civ 2 style of warp travel based on how much antimatter ships had, distance between grav wells, and research (to increase the distance you can travel between warps, and reduce antimatter usage to initiate a warp). The Dev's of Sins went with fixed phase lanes to prevent a "whack a mole" style of gameplay that would be present in open maps. Theoretically it can still be possible to do the "warp" plan. However on the phase lane based maps things would be problematic. Once you jump you can travel infinite distance (however long the phase lane is). Then if we wanted to simulate an "open map" we would have to connect every grav well to every other grav well (A tedious task is an understatement). Still we cant factor in limited jump distance based on antimatter, and distance between grav wells, because phase lanes are "infinite". Limited only by the 2 connecting points. Still its something to research, and look into. I wish the code for the open maps was still in the game.

For a failed re-imagined TOS era Starfleet Battles Universe based mod i was planning Antimatter would have played a huge role. I would have used antimatter like the ships "warp engine power" Going by the board game ruleset of 30 warp engine units + 4 units for impulse power, then another 4 or whatever the number for APR, and batterys that a Constitution Class heavy cruiser used. However like Psychoak said all of the weapons would have to be "ability's". For frigate slots that wouldnt be an issue. However for cap ships that causes some real problems.

OMG 

Seee wgat happens to  the forum OP when you give out the PW to anyone 

Making every ship into a Gate might work.

Scout ships would still have to follow phase lanes to explore.

Another possibility might be to make it cost too much antimatter to even use the ability until research has caught up in the middle to late game.

I created a crude version of antimatter use for shield and weapons using the 5th ability slot at capitals.

I reduced the overall Cool-down and Restore rates and added this:

numOverTimeActions 1
overTimeAction
    buffOverTimeActionType "DrainAntiMatter"
    drainAntiMatterRate
        Level:0 2.000000
        Level:1 0.000000
        Level:2 0.000000
numEntityModifiers 3
entityModifier
    buffEntityModifierType "AbilityCooldownRate"
    value
        Level:0 1.000000
        Level:1 0.000000
        Level:2 0.000000
entityModifier
    buffEntityModifierType "WeaponCooldown"
    value
        Level:0 3.000000
        Level:1 0.000000
        Level:2 0.000000
entityModifier
    buffEntityModifierType "ShieldPointRestoreRate"
    value
        Level:0 3.000000
        Level:1 0.000000
        Level:2 0.000000
numEntityBoolModifiers 0
numFinishConditions 2
finishCondition
    finishConditionType "AntiMatterDepleted"
finishCondition
    finishConditionType "OwnerChanged"

When the ships antimatter pool runs out, the shield and weapons drop down to normal rates.

About phase gates: To my understanding you need two to travel independent of lanes. If you give the ability to some basic building (maybe even to the planets?), your ships should be pretty free to travel, but not to enemy plants, as there is no gate.

If you give it to ships, they will be able to travel from any point in the system to another planet with a gate or a ship with the gate ability.

What just comes to my mind: What about giving the Borgs a superweapon that can create gates in enemy systems? Not sure if it is possible.

The main thing is the sheer complexity of pulling something like antimatter based, limited distance warp (phase jumping). If Sins would have left the open map code in then it wouldnt be so difficult, but with phase lanes there is no way to limit the distance you can jump. In any kind of open map situation you must have limitations otherwise it really does become "whack a mole". GC2 late game is kind of that way when you have max research on drives, and have worlds capped in mid points of the map. That really wouldnt be fun.

Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays) SoA2 Modding team and all those involved! Thanks for all of your hard work and dedication, it certainly shines through in this mod.

Agreed,  We have several protoype abilities and none of them every could meet our expectations, However one of the abilities did fit perfectly for the borg and a few other factions. Balancing is the hardest part. I do have another solution which will take some time to implement. The basic concept is simple redo all of the maps and make phase lanes at all planets that will allow travel to any other planet surrounding it within a certain range.  thoughts??

thanks jay

"IF" the range can be limited (increaseable by research), Cost X amount of antimatter to jump (reducible by research), and not turn the maps into a frantic whack a mole fest in late game. Then it could be doable. Just know that connecting all of the grav wells will be the most tedious undertaking we will try to accomplish in this mod.

Ummm SAO 2 Team??

Merry Christmas everyone! (A little late)

I had started on the cargo ship but the holidays have slowed me down a bit. I hope to have the model done very soon.

I have quite a few suggestions based on my observations while playing the game lately but I just wanted to mention 2 right now since I find them pretty bothersome.

1. Unlike SoaSE ships, SoA ships move around in circular sweeping patterns. This can look good but unfortunately it really makes them hard to control and lowers their DPS as they keep moving out of weapons range. Since SoA ship weapon ranges appear to be based on what SoaSE used, I wanted to suggest that most SoA ships have their weapons ranges and turn rates increased so they don't keep moving out of range every time they circle around.

2. I also wanted to ask about Photon Torpedo's. The damage that Torpedoes do is often around 15 which I find unusual since phasers and disrupter's are often doing 100-300 per shot. I'm guessing that Torpedoes have a chance to deliver more damage due to shield mitigation (just a guess) but even if thats true, I still don't see how the Torpedo could measure up. Especially since Torpedoes are suppose to be more destructive then phasers (on hulls if I remember right).  I'd like to see a fairly big increase in Torpedo damage and if possible a increased bonus multiplier (2x, 3x?) if they hit a ship with shields at less then 10% strength. I don't know if the game can do that but it would really fit well with lore.

Regarding the talk about phase lanes that go everywhere and wanting restrictions to long range travel.

Also, 1 question. If you could get your "warp anywhere" idea to work would you still make travel between star systems only possible at each solar systems star?  (IMHO I think that should stay in, except for special cases)

Could you have warp travel drain antimatter per sec so the longer lanes need better tech. If a ship runs out of antimatter part way through a phase lane it could......? (blow up? get to the finish line but with a huge debuff, diluted back to the last solar system, just stop moving?)

I also saw something unusual a couple times were 1 ship didn't jump into FT when it reached the edge of a well and instead just kept on flying slowly to wards the next system. Two ship that gave chase also ignored the phase lane.

I was wondering if we could alter the gravity wells of the planets and stars to give us what we need. Such as, maybe some sort of "outer" gravity well from the star that encompasses the whole system and is altered to allow warp travel.

My other idea what to make the planets themselves remote nodes like was already suggested in this thread. What I was thinking was that it could be "controlled" so the AI doesn't freak out by making it either a mid game research item and/or making it a planetary upgrade. If all the planet upgrade keys are currently full we could merge 2 upgrade types into 1 button.

My last idea on this is that the stabilizer node could be hidden in every planets exploration skill.

Thanks for reading. (That was longer then I expected it to be...)