hello all we will be updating the mod in the next week and posting a release to this page stay tuned 

thanks jay and team

hell yeah jim!

this is what was missing for soa. can u integrate it for the next diplomacy versions which soon will released?

that would be perfect!

would also be great if it would become a part of the official soa game...

I'm not part of the Mod team, and I have nothing to do with bug hunting and all that.

I'm just another fan of both SoA2 and DS.  As for causing an imbalance, I don't know why... I just thought it just added some more variety to SoA2, especially having all the solar system planets to play with.  I got to admit, being able to set up a Federation strike force orbiting Saturn (for example) is pretty cool.  For the most part I didn't change anything from DS, except for removing the new planetary abilities, which I still need to add back in...  But DS is really well written and pretty balanced in my opinion. But that's just me. 

Gulkelan, I can certainly try to merge Diplo, but even if I do... its up to the Mod teams and not me whether it gets posted for download or not.  This was actualy just for me to play here at home. Ideally I would love to re-write DS so it works in conjunction with SoA2 instead of merging the 2 mods... but so far my attempts keep crashing.  Not sure what I'm doing wrong, or what I missed, merging the 2 works fine, but using 2 modified mods on top of each other just doesn't want to cooperate yet. 

Anyway, i don't have Diplomacy yet, I was just going to wait for Rebellion and get both at once... but if the Diplomacy version of SoA2 is near finished, then maybe I should get around to buying Diplo...

Jay, Stress... any of you... if your interested give me a shout.  Or, if you want me to keep it to myself, also give me a shout.  Doesn't matter to me either way, I just thought I'd offer...

Oh yeah, I know the more involved, the greater the risk for mini-dumps.  It's taken me a long time just to get this one to work.  I'm honestly not sure if Diplo will or not yet, because of the added content and such.

Actally I tried to seperate and rename them into Federation classes as best I could... and yeah, a couple are pretty weird.  They're best if you're trying to re-create a particular system with galaxy forge.  That's where this really works great: if you are trying to make a system based on a particular Trek episode, because it gives you a vast variety of planet types, including smaller planetoids and moon size, to choose from.  For example, one of the barren moons has this massive crater in the side of it.  I saw it with a heavy asteroid belt accompanying it and immediately thought of the Klingon moon (Praxis???) that blew up. 

After a few dozen tries, I was finally able to download via filefactory. The problem is that the install readme has not been updated since SOA 2 0.4.6 of Entrencement.

so i'm using some custom maps that were posted earlier in this thread or in another soa2 thread, but some of them have fixed positions and races. how do i change these parameters in galaxyforge?

Thanks for making such an awesome mod, its so much fun to play!! I looked at the read me and I had a question. The read me says to look and the individual faction read me's for info on the races, but I have looked in all the folders of the mod and I couldn't find any faction read me. Am I not looking in the right spot?

That is because we haven't made the read me's for each faction yet. Basically the faction readmes will contain some lore, and tips on gameplay, and tactics for that specific faction. For example the original plans for the Klingons is they were to be industrial juggernauts (hence they occupy the vanilla TECH slots) with cheap ships that have good maneuvering, and firepower but weak armor. Most units are attrition units that are easily replaced (except the elite units). Economy, Empire, and sheer numbers should be the Klingons, and Cardassians strengths. While the Romulans used expensive high tech  ships (because they should all be able to cloak) well balanced between firepower, and armor. However most rommie ships weapons fire forward.When we finally introduced the Borg. We did not want them to be "Retarded jack in the box's" like they were in Voyager. We wanted them to be like they were in "Best of both Worlds" the "Oh SHIT!" nigh unstoppable Borg. This was a challenge to pull off an intentionally overpowered faction so that the weaker factions had a "chance' to defeat them. The answer was to not let the Borg tech up, and to make good use of "anti borg" weapons. Hence the borg research stations have a high logistics cost, and research is expensive. Not sure if it is still that way. I havent played the mod in a while. Much has changed since i ran the show

Thanks for the info Stress! I hate it when the Borg show up, and that's just how the Feds felt on the shows and movies too.

Here's a pretty helpful guide to planetary classification: http://www.sttff.net/planetaryclass.html

and another one: http://www.ucip.org/miscellaneous/planets.html

The antiproton scan is to decloak ships, not mines.  Both the Federation and the Dominion have an answer to cloaked vessels in the form of cloak removal.  Rescuing your damaged ships should prove difficult in such situations, but the AI sucks at counter abilities so it's more likely to matter against a human opponent.

A D'deridex is incapable of having better stats than an Enslaver.  It has a 2600 hull point deficit and a 6000 shield point deficit.  Slightly higher mitigation and armor do not make up the difference.  Damage is, likewise, vastly inferior.  On the ability front, Opening Salvo is Borg quality damage potential, even a mid level Enslaver can wipe out 20 ship fleets by itself.

Now, if you saw a Devastator and mistook it for an Enslaver due to the similar look, that could explain your comment.