When will the Dominion and Romulan starbases be added?

Hopefully before I lose my sanity play testing with what's in here now.

Crap...  I'll start keeping changes locally and keep a backup till we're in the green.

FYI  ALL I FIXED MY RIGG

thanks josh

Glad to hear it's fixed!  You guys are doing great work!  keep it up.

Hey

If I wanted to simply add the planets from Distant Stars to my copy of this mod, what would I have to do? (Just the planets, not any bonuses or anything)

Also, if I wanted to quicken the research speeds, how would I do that? 

Any help would be appreciated

Moving the planets from Distant Stars to this mod is going to be more than just a quick set of instructions (and not to mention a waste of time since we are adding our own custom set with proper trek acronyms).

Just short of importing all the proper meshes from the mesh folder, planet entities from the GameInfo folder, .dds (DirectDraw Surface) files from the Textures folder (this is what makes the planets their proper shape and texture), updating the English file in the Strings folder, and finally updating both the entity.manifest and galaxy.manifest.

Yeah, that should just about sum it up.

My recommendation to speed up any values would be:

1. Start up game like normal.

2. Select Game Options tab (bottom of screen) under the New Games option.

3. Set speeds for Income, Build, Ship Speed, Research, and Culture at the rate you prefer.

(Note: Believe me, I'm not trying to treat you like your dumb, this is just the easiest way to do things).

If this isn't fast enough for you, than the only other way is to go into the GameInfo folder and select each Researchsubject entity file and open them with Wordpad or Notepad.  In each file you will see a string of code that looks like this:

TXT
entityType "ResearchSubject"
hudIcon "HUDICON_RESEARCHSUBJECT_HULLTECH0"
smallHudIcon "HUDICON_RESEARCHSUBJECT_HULLTECH0"
infoCardIcon ""
NameStringID "IDS_RESEARCHSUBJECT_HULLTECH0_NAME"
DescriptionStringID "IDS_RESEARCHSUBJECT_HULLTECH0_DESCRIPTION"
researchWindowLocation
    block 0
    pos [ 0 , 1 ]
ResearchField "Combat"
Prerequisites
    NumResearchPrerequisites 0
MinimumArtifactLevel -1
BaseUpgradeTime 40.000000
PerLevelUpgradeTime 5.000000
BaseCost
    credits 400.000000
    metal 0.000000
    crystal 25.000000
PerLevelCostIncrease
    credits 100.000000
    metal 0.000000
    crystal 25.000000
Tier 0
onlyWorksIfTierLabsExist FALSE
MaxNumResearchLevels 2
priority 1.000000
researchBoolModifiers 0
researchFloatModifiers 2
researchModifier
    modifierType "HullPointsMaxAdjustment"
    baseValue 0.000000
    perLevelValue 0.062500
researchModifier
    modifierType "HullPointsRegenAdjustment"
    baseValue 0.000000
    perLevelValue 0.025000
artifactPicture ""

(Note: This example is pulled from the file titled RESEARCHSUBJECT_HULLKLINGON0.entity)

Once in there, all you would have to do is adjust the area I have highlighted red with a smaller numeral value.

There, I think that pretty much covers everything!

I know this has probably been covered before, and I would assume you hate hearing it, but will you be adding any new vessels to the Federation faction? Specifically the Olympic-class, Oberth-class and Cheyenne-class.

Just curious.

Y

I tried doing what you said with the planets, but I keep getting mini-dumps.

How exactly would I go about adding the planet types?

As for the research, the code edit worked, so thanks =D

About the SOA set of new planet types, are you planning on including a set of Sol System planets? 

I have a tactical question. How can i counter a Dominion attack in early game with the federation? The Dominion capital ship easily destroyed my Ambassador and 6 Miranda class vessels on its own. Luckily some Borg came by to destroy the dominion ship but were unable to bombard the Planet afterwards Still counting on Borg is maybe not the wisest choice.

Thx.

there will be in the next release , balance had not been worked on at all with the previous release. 

thanks jtaylorpcs

Good, thanks. I thought i missed something like the USS "Über"

LOL I totally just ran into the exact same problem! Lucky for me, I tweaked the game files to give the Feddies 45 capitol ships  (\B):vulcan:(\B)

HO....LY..... CRAP!!!!  I always privately thought the graohics on this mod (and really the game itself) were crap.  But I just got a new comp that can finally handle it on highest settings, and I am amazed!!  Lolz I'll probably get laughed at by all the people who've had great comps, but I have new respect for whoever it is that designed these models.  Everyone who doesn't have a good comp I suggest to get one, because you will be amazed too.

that is WHY we ignore comments about the graphics quality.

quite often us older hands turn the graphics down for performance, so it is a personal choice for all of us with fast computers.

harpo

(\B):vulcan:(\B)

True but we do want to ensure that all "pc's" capable of running sins can run Soa2 . So all  can enjoy. A decision has been made about Soa2 and Diplomacy. After the next release for entrenchment, We then will start to migrate to diplomacy. We may or may not support entrenchment at that point. But we will cross that bridge when we get there.

thanks jtaylorpcs

And might there be a tentative ETA for this release?

I was wondering if there is any chance we could get some screen shots of the Dominion Star Base and the Romulan Star Base.  I'd love to see them.  If not that's ok.  I'll just wait patiently until they are released.  Sorry I can't really do anything to help, but I don't have any modding skills.

ive had the same problem with the dominion and than i build the ship against fighter (the centaur class)

and that helps a lott !!!

The dominion one once i finally get to see her ingame. Saul has been holding out on her to finish some touchs up on her. Ask me and I say he is a perfecionist. But as with all great things the longer it takes usually means the better it is. I will tell you this it is going to be similiar in design to the monac shipyards. As such she will be able to build ships and much much more.

Yay, this means that my purchase of diplomacy wasn't a waste .

my lord, i have been away and yet you guys still live.....   makes me happy to see ya all

Apologies for not being around and keeping you all updated. I am after all "semi-retired", but neck deep in TSOP.

I am letting you guys know that i havent completely abandoned SoA 2 just yet. While Jay is running the show here i have been privately building the Diplomacy foundation of the mod in what little spare time i have on top of working on the optimization project. No easy task considering the sins 2 gig issue, and the long list of other bugs discovered while working on TSOP.

The Diplomacy foundation will be as basic as it gets. The factions, the models, the particles, the UI, and thats it. The SoA 2 Team can handle the rest. Once i am done with the diplomacy foundation then i am done with SoA 2 for good. The free time, and interest just is not there for me. I will hand everything over to Jay and crew.

I am still working on half scale, and reducing weapon ranges to prevent ships from leaving the grav wells.

Been talking with Psycloak, and we may have some ideas on how to better balance the mod.

I would like to get at least ALL of the units, and structures in the Diplomacy version. Even if they are 3rd party placeholders.

I have a question about 'stuttering'. After the battle reaches the half way mark the game 'stutters' every half second or so. All the ships will skip ahead and I can hear a slight pop too. Is it fixable?