Appreciate the effort, but your link is dead. Yes if you can clean the sounds up a little that would be great, and yes you earned a place on the credit list.

Whoa!! I just played the new release.. OK guys you definetly need to give the SoA 2 team respect. This is freaking awesome. better than what i expected. Jay, and crew managed to pull it off in my absense as well. I made a comment before about the elite research not being there. Forget i said that. I enabled a wrong version of the mod. Same about grav wells. Everything is fine as it is. The only change in 0.5 ill make is the half scale ships. Great freaking job guys!

Ooh!  Audio Janitor!

Sorry, I've been too nice today or something, just had to do it.

Better yet Punch a midget

Seconded. Esp the part about tractor beams - surely a Borg ship is simply too massive for a Tractor beam to affect it (even if it doesn't actually pull the ship around). Basically, I find that it takes too long to become competitive as Borg. Sure, you *can* turtle till you've built enough, but that isn't any fun.

I played as the borg in a game last night that lasted 4 hours on a large map.  I assimilated only siege frigates because the planet assimilators at 58 supply are too costly at least not until mid to late game.  Mid game, my ships I assimilated got cut down so I had to use planet assimilators, and they did not impress me for the supply cost.  Later on I managed to assimilate what I needed until late game came and my war machine was humming nicely and I could afford much more planet assimilators.

I have to agree with Micael, I had a Galaxy jump into my world with 10 intrepids and 5 excelsiors, and with the tractor beam constantly on my tactical cube, I almost lost it.  Luckily I had a second tac cube 3 wells away.  I am not much for lore when playing mods, and I would think that they would adapt to a tractor beam after a couple of uses, could make for a nice cap ability, adaptation.

Oh, and the wave cannon research in the tree, do those apply to anything?  I never did research it because I couldn't find anything it did apply to. 

Just one last question, is there any way to cloak a fleet with cloak tech like Kingons without having to click each and every ship?

is there an eta for the next patch?

the sceduled month would suffice

Hi guys.

First this is a wonderfull mod.

But i have a question:

Can i only play the random map? When i choose one of the original maps the AI is sitting at their homeplanet and is doing nothing. I tried it with the klingons and the Feds.

With a random map everythink is fine.

Greetings from Germany

Nico

nice job on the mod so far. I can't wait to see the finished borg!. One thing I've noticed so far and I haven;t seen anyone mention it. I haven't seen the ai build any culture spreading structures so far. I've played the game maybe 3 or 4 times now and each time all the npc ai races won;t build culture spreaders.

Hi just_jim,

thank you for your answer.

I live in the near of Dortmund. Do you know Dortmund?

I testet it with easy and normal difficulty. Only at the random maps the AI is doing and building something.

Maybe i should set the AI on Agressive?

Greetings

Nico

Dortmond... I know the name, but I don't think I was ever there. You're much farther north than I was.

It could be the AI is too easy, yeah...  I typically set all my opponents to Unfair, which is still fairly easy to beat most of the time.  That's the biggest reason I'm looking forward to Diplomacy... new, harder settings... like Cruel... hehehe.

Try seting yours to hard or unfair and see what happens.  I'm betting it'll be a more interesting game

Lets just say stay tuned . Soon very soon. The patch also will address several other areas of Soa2 that we thought needed work. Mainly abilities and balancing but some new content as well.

thanks jtaylorcpcs

Sorry for being out a few days, JTaylor, but work calls.  I'll be free later this week to help contribute, but short on time now.  A couple thoughts:

1. @Stress - Stress says that planet grav well sizes should be doubled.  I think the problem may be the non-terran planets.  Terran planets are big enough, it's just the small grav wells for ice/volcanic/desert planets that are too small (literally around half the size or smaller).  Asteriods seem okay being small IMO.
2. To those who think the Roms are underpowered:  Try again using H'Veik cruisers in bulk.  Just because the Feds' best bet is lots of cap ships doesn't mean that everyone else plays like that.  I took Masterchief's Dominion Fleet to the cleaners by showing up with some D'Verixs (for disabling) and lots and lots of H'Veiks for firepower per fleet supply.
3. To those who think Roms are overpowered: Play as someone besides the Dominion.  The Dominion cap ships may have high DPS right now, but ultimately they are a little weak due to a lack of abilities for cap ships.  You'll notice that their middle-of-the-line cruisers aren't as tough as Feds or Klinks, and that's intentional: with Enslavers in your lineup as the top (non-borg) cap ship, the Dominion has to have a weakness.  Granted, spamming the D'Verix is a little easy right now, but that could change.
4. Regarding weakness of borg colonizer cap ship: It's not supposed to be able to take on a whole fleet.  Remember that the 1701-E destroyed a Queen's sphere in nothin' flat in First Contact.  It's the early assimilation abilities the Borg need to rely on early, as just_jim has been pointing out.
5. I have to concur the disable time for tractor beam may be a little high to give it to the Fed colonizer cap ship.  I think it's fair game for later ships though.

Will post some strategy tips I've developed over the last few weeks of beta shortly.