What is the purpose of fleet mod and do you add it  to the soa mod folder or activate both seperatly?

I'm playing a game with everybody plus an extra borg which is who i am....how come i can't assimilate cubes or unicomplex's but the other borg just rocked in and took all my capital ships and fully upgraded unicomplex???

Fleet mini mod increases Cap ship/Fleet support, 20 Caps, 3000 Support, just extract it into your SoA folder, and let it overwrite what it has to.

this has been fixed I guess, so I should redownload the mod correct?

No, a patch will need to be uploaded.  If you want to fix it yourself, just open up CAPITALSHIP_BORGSIEGE.entity with notepad and change the value.

Edit:  The Drone Missiles will be fixed too.  To counter assimilation as Borg, use Collective Focus on the Borg Diamond.

im having trouble downloading this from the site you linked the mod to. Every time i try and dl it it says that the source file could not be downloaded please contact the site admistrator... Could you guys post it on like filefront or something or someone else host the file please.

0.4.4E Patch released.  Link in top post as well.

Trek, shut down any download managers you've got running and try again.  I'm not sure when a mirror will be up.

Really good so far I commend everyone's efforts at persisting with sins,  looking forward to when its a more complete total conversion

also a couple of suggestions maybe im missing it in the jungle of the op motd  please include patch notes and clean up the jungle of the op motd lol thanks 

well, i use mozilla firefox and dont use any accelerators... unless there is one built into mozilla? If so how do i shut it down?

     Anyone else think the rebels a little overpowering, or am I just that bad? I know the point is not to let them get that tech, but when your adversary's rebels are more of a threat than them, that's a problem. I felt like I was playing Diplomacy's pirates for a while, just that much non stop swarming. I don't mind the challenge, but it kind of makes front defense pointless. (Kind of gamey)

     Plus I seen a huge hit in performance, with hundreds of rebels in my defeated worlds just with nothing to do eating precious memory, thats so important in Sins. I say cut rebels down at least half way...and bring back the pretty blue explosions.

Other than that terrific work.

this ^

I keep getting a 'Failed to Open Page' when I click on the download link for the Entrenchment version of the mod. Anyone got any ideas?

Myself and some friends getting the same problem, have to wait til they sort it.

I am having the same issue actually. Is the download page link wrong?

it the SOA2 team would like,, I can mirror the latest files to my dropbox account.

harpo

go for it , it can t hurt . A drive is down atm . Cant even log in

thanks soa2 team

ADrive seems to have gone down...

You're that bad, but it's very easy to fix.

Rebellion strength.  Romulans have the strongest rebel fleet, 440-460 fleet points, at ~5.5 minute intervals.

This is a resource expenditure of about 35 credits per second and the accompanying resources, for each enemy faction.  So yes, the rebel fleets are huge

Point 1, rebel fleets lack stat upgrades.  At the point in the game in which you see rebel fleets, they should be roughly 30% across the board in stats.  Fewer hull points, shields, and weapon damage.  Stat additions are multiplicative in nature.  A 30% increase to the durability of a ship as well as the damage output leads to a ship that deals 70% more damage.

Point 2, they lack unlocked abilities.  In the case of the Romulans, the main spawns are H'veik's, V18's and V30's.  All three of these ships have research locked self repair,. cloaking, and offensive abilities that greatly increase their damage output and durability.

Point 3, they aren't player directed, and will even attack the spawning player if a concerted attack with them is attempted.

Taking their status as a level 8 technology, they're minor nuisances for equally developed military technology.

With half the fleet points in frigates, you can take them down casualty free, unsupported by tactical structures.

With ten logistics in an unsupported cluster of turrets(which they will run themselves into regardless of the other more opportune targets in well, you can also take them down, occasionally casualty free.  Ones supported by shielding and repair are a guaranteed result.  Fifteen are a guaranteed result too, that's only the first tactical upgrade.

A single starbase with moderately upgraded weapons and defenses wont pay them any mind either.

I don't find them to present a difficulty.  I actually had them stronger at one point, so they were an actual threat to wells with defensive structures.  The AI was too stupid to handle more than two of them at the same time though.  So, I nerfed them down to their current level.  Federation rebels are the only ones with siege capability, and they're significantly weaker threats.  This is thanks to a 300-320 point fleet size, with roughly a quarter of it going into Constellation Class frigates that run up to the planet and die all by themselves to even a single weapon platform.

Diplomacy pirates can do significant damage in a well with max tactical slots and a fully upgraded starbase.  Romulan rebels just took seven fleets to drop a cluster of ten turrets around a frigate factory that wasn't repairing for the first two fights.  In that time frame, I made enough resources to fully upgrade and defend half a dozen planets just sitting there with my home planet.

Try building up light defense in each well, choke point reliance is bad for you anyway.  It leads to an irretrievable situation when you lose it.  Building up starbases with culture, trade and ship building, that's even a profitable move.  You can get really loaded with a good starbase enhanced economy that frees up logistics you would have put into ship production and culture while enhancing your trade output.

here is the patch link http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8023186/sins%20mods/SOA2%200.4.4E%20patch.zip

and the fleet mod link http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8023186/sins%20mods/Soa2%20Fleet%20Mod4.3.7z.

the mod v 4.4e link http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8023186/sins%20mods/SOA2%200.4.3E.7z

edit all the above links are exact copies of the original release files originally downloaded from adrive

harpo

Nicely done guys. Very Impressive

I am glad to see that the spirit, and vision of the SoA 2 project is still there. Though i cant help you guys anymore as far as active modding i do wish all the best for Jay, Shimmer, and the rest of the SoA2team. All i have left to give is advise. If you need it you know where to find me.

thanks stress.

Has anyone not noticed how the cardies will rebel against the dom? hehe just a teaser

Oh hey, cool, and update!!!  I've been busy the last few days and honestly not really paying attention.

Did someone say the Borg and rebels are ramped up?  COOL!!!  I've been hoping for a tougher game.

Oh, completely off topic, but not really...  the other day I was channel surfing and saw Enterprise was on... I was going to just keep going, but the intro was all weird and different... and very very dark!!!  I thought hmmmmmmm... this is interesting.  Then I recognized the symbol painted across the saucer of the Enterprise at the end of the intro... Earth with a sword thru it... Well, what do ya know, it's an evil twin mirror universe episode...  OK, I thought... I always did like the mirror universe, I'll give this a shot.

OMG!!!  Finally!!!  A really good Enterprise episode.. well actually a 2-parter... And the end was brilliant!  i can't remember laughing so hard in a long time. 

OK, back to the mod, it's about 90% downloaded, I'm outta here.  Thanks for all the hard work guys!!!

    Just a thought..instead of the carry over Advent "Lingering Presence" (kinda spacey for feds?)for Feds scouts how about

Distress Beacon : Starship deploys a distress beacon just before catastrophic hull failure in it's last known location.

Gotta admit, Distress Beacon definitly fits the story line!

OK, I've been playing with it a bit and so far I really like the changes.  Especially to the Borg research trees.

But I'm puzzled by one thing, maybe it's a bug. I can't change my player name.  It's frozen on "Starfleet", which looks a little silly if I'm playing as the collective.  Other than that so far I'm liking this a lot!!!