thanks for the heads up love what i am seeing. cant wait

Does it work for 1.16?

Version 2 of the map with added miitia - with some big battles

http://www.mediafire.com/?znhotrhd2l4

I hope it does justice to this mod

That does sound intresting, any idea where you saw it?

Hah! I dont even have a copy of my own mod yet. I still have 0.03c, and havnt touched it since i sent the stations i worked on. There is much i need to catch up on.

Im still waiting on a permission resend for sync. Shimmer i think you sent the invite to the wrong e-mail. I never got the invite.

I aquired a new more powerful 64 bit laptop dirt cheap that puts my old desktop to shame. It isnt fast compared to the latest and greatest of machines, but it serves its purpose just fine for me. It can play sins on max settings with little lag. In fact i donated my desktop to my son since it is damn near useless to me now. This laptop is now my primary puter. So now i may be able to mod while i am on the road (time permitting).

Specs of new toy

acer aspire 6930

2 gig dual core intel cpu

FOUR gigs ddr2 ram

300 gig HD

Nice built in surround sound capable realtek chip

Same intel graphics chip my old laptop had, just up to date. Has built in 128 megs ram, but can share over 1 gig from system ram.

Vista home premium 64 bit soon to be downgraded to xp professional 64 bit

Im gonna rant for a little bit here. I just got done looking at the ModDB blogs, and podcasts about SoA 2, and i am now pissed off. Its bad enough when the general population bitches about a free, but buggy mod that we busted our ass's to put together, but the ModDB crew just went ballistic on this mod. Saying stuff like why bother. Like Star Trek hasnt been done before. They said it is just sins with trek ships in it..Why do people bother to keep doing stuff like this. Yada yada. They obviously didnt play the latest playable version of the mod (0.03c was the last downloadable version before the 1.16/1.02 update). Why do we do this? Well i can answer it in 2 ways..

1) I just happen to LIKE star trek. Sure it isnt everyones cup of tea, but there IS a fan base out there. Otherwise nobody would be bitching that the mod isnt "perfect", or cracking "why dont you add this, or why dont you do that". We do this because we like the genre despite our heated nit picky debates over whats canon, and whats not. ModDB also dissed Star Wars mods too. Im sure Eviljedi will get a kick out of that.

2) Because we CAN do it.... I dont see anyone else stepping up to the challenge of making a "good" trek game. I have serious doubts about ST: Online. We have seen "professional" game companys just trash, and make a total parody of the genre. They cant do it right. They cant do it without Star Trek look totally absurd. So we are doing it ourselves.

ModDB is one to talk about "Been there, Done that, Its all old hat". Well lets just take a look at all of the HUNDREDS of Half Life 2 mods, and the THOUSANDS of 1st person shooter mods for the overwhelmingly majority of the mindless frantic point, and click 1st person shooter games hosted there. Geee how many WW2, Modern warfare, and "realistic combat" mods do we have.... Yaaaawn, Been there, Done that.

I am going to pull the mod from ModDB asap. Let them stay obsessed with HL2 mods, and people that have absolutly NO life other than speaking 3 different coding languages, and can probably write their own games in their sleep. There obviously is no room for the "hobbiest" there. SoA 2 apparently is not "professional" enough to grace their presence.

So bascially your post says good job?

Wow, what the hell is MODDB talking about?  There is so much absolute garbage on that site why would they attack a greak mod for a great game.

That really upsets me.  Stress- who gives a S*&$  you guys rock, we all love the mod.  I am eagerly awaiting your mod more than ANY actual game coming out this year (I say that knowing full and well that Diablo 3 will not be out until 2011...

Filefront is still around.  They got bought out so they are still operational.  There's also ModCraft.net.

i believe they are all full now sry

The last of the invites  just went out. If we need more people i will post it again.

For those of you who have not setup sync yet, and it shows me, you have 48hours to install it or i will have to remove you to make room for someone else. thanks!

Still looking for people who still have the SoA v2 0.3c

The brel isn't having any movement problems except when it's trying to go around a planet or asteroid.  There's some jumping/humping that might not be fixable due to the fighter movement.  It's not really noticable unless you zoom in and didn't really affect gameplay.

A few things you can add/modify if you guys have time:

  Frigate_KlingonD4Preditor.entity:

    1. change ability:0 "" to ability:0 "AbilityExplore" so I can just send them off to scout.

    2. change entity name to Frigate_KlingonD4Predator (pointless and annoying I know)

  Add colonize ability to one of the earlier caps (carrier, whatever).  I hate making the colony frigs.  (Emperor is 6 labs!)

  Add some background (light gray) to desc hud.  It's hard to read in the Fleet logistics menu and other research menus.

Random thoughts:

  1. Fighter movement as done with Mansh00ter and SoA2 aren't perfect and tweaking will take a lot of time/effort.  They're cool to watch if you have the time (i.e. you're waiting for resources and want to zoom really in)

  2. Tech Tree and Abilities are crucial for balance and playability.  I'd much rather have these balanced and fleshed out even w/ the standard OK corral type shoot em ups.

Yes i've suspended your account because you keep downloading over and over and over and its interrupting me and loki while working with the mod, we've let it go before but not anymore you download once and update as needed, why you keep downloading the mod over and over i don;t know, but i'm stopping it here and now!