I LOVE THIS MOD!

Playing as the fed vs the Borg makes for epic battles. So far my fave battle was a small one between a large scout cube and my soveriegn and galaxy glass with about 20 romulon frigates backing me up, was an epic battle! Although all the romulon frigates where crushed.

Note that many of the abilities have been kinda fleshed out at the last minute - there was enough work to do just making the thing function well and look pretty that not all of the balancing could get done and make a Jan release.  We're always on the lookout for more and exciting abilities, but it's hard to match them up with what we can work with in Sins. 

In DS9, we never saw much that was very special from the Doms to make an ability on.  They just had huge and tough ships, which makes it hard to create an ability for.  Note that with the firepower and armor they have, their cap ships already have an amazing advantage.

Several plans have been floated for some awesome borg abilities (several of which were tried out), but we're still working to make sure they don't make them so overpowered that nobody can play against them (that's been a problem!).  Similarly, with the assimilate function, the borg have such an awesome ability that we're hard pressed to give them anything more that's useful but not overpowering.

From the feedback we're getting, we'll look at better balancing races/ships.  One obvious conclusion right now seems to be that cap ships (esp. Fed) are overpowering, so we may need to adjust some of the parameters (e.g., supply cost of non-cap ships or $$$ cost of building those cap ships).

Borg FTW!  

This mod is... there are no words. Your skills as modders are proven, and I have no doubt that you could get a job with a major developer with this in your portfolio. I mean, this is ver .04- and it's better than most the offical games released under the Star Trek IP.

One thing I'm wondering about- Dominion, Keldon Class Capital ship, it says in the description "Elite Carrier/No Strikecraft", but it does in fact have fighters- five squadrons worth of Advent strikecraft. It also appears to be larger than it appears on screen, as the zoom in when focused on it is capped at a much greater distance than with other ships.

Federation are a blast to play, and I only just tried out the begining of the Dominion. but we need more Breen! Breen are awesome! Can we get a Breen ship for the TBA structure-killer? and all the little comments in the Dominion ship descriptions are really funny- "Seeking individual with scales," etc.

Will report back when I've tested some Romulan/Borg/Klingon action!

P.S. 300% shield mitigation ability on the Federation Capital ships makes them practically untouchable- I'm so glad the Borg can't assimillate capitals!

Edit: G.Adm Prawn, that's my favorite Romulan ship I've seen so far too- really well done, fits perfectly!

great work but there are some gamebreaking issues, i don't know if they have been posted:

-federation cap ships are invincible with raised shield harmonics even one point is enough

-you can't turn on/off cloak for all you vessels at once (at least not for the caps) which makes it really micro intensive

it could be an extremely powerfull ability though ( i loved raiding with my 16 norexan => decloak throw on shield get of a salvo => cloak => rinse and repeat)

-the borg mostly spam ships of other races i played against them as romulans and they even build romulan starbases and not their own

-the feds feel a bit op (without the first point), but i guess this is because they are most polished race with abilites

now if you excuse me, i have some klingons to kill

Is it me or is the download really really slow?

I am in the process of uploading a combined SOA2 0.4E release. Everyone can thank Ghettomire for making us a complete installer for the mod.  All you will have to do is download unzip and install.  Will post the link when upload is complete. Because of extreme demand for the mod File fronts servers are probably screwing things up.

thanks jtaylorpcs

Guys thank you for the amazing mod!!!  

I did download the hotfix... I just made the mistake of not trying out the feds after I did. Keldon still has fighters, so I guess that's intentional? or they're placeholders?

Aww, you scaled back the mitigation increase... I liked having a few galaxy class caps hold off whole klingon armadas...

I have not even looked at the beta build... No free time :/ Jay is in the hot seat for this one lol

The Keldon should NOT have fighters. The Leviathan should have fighters. I know the roletypes for the two ships are switched, but it should not effect the AI at all. A carrier roletype does not have to have strike craft in order for the AI to build it.

Typos.. not my fault

Borg screw ups... not my fault

When i build 0.5 ill go over and fix these mess ups.

lol Well we might just have it fixed before you even begin to build 0.5 .  The team is getting a little bored   We added a massive amount of things to this build the last few days of release.  The borg being one of them!   Opps  guess the switch up was my fault on the two ships and fighters. The keldon wont be a cap for much longer at either rate. But removing her fighters is a easy fix.

thanks jtaylorpcs

I don't wanna talk out of turn, but it'll be nice for you Dom lovers (worthless scum!).