SoA2Team

Which 90% of the SoA2 models tangents suck, because they are all quick n dirty tangents. I never have had the free time nor the patience figure out how to make the "proper" tangents. Every time i try it fails. Its been explained 100 times over, but its still all greek to me. Which is why i stick with 3dsmax. It's the only modeler i truly understand.

First off Love the Mod , as a hard core Trekkie cant get enough of it...its the best star trek GAME i ever played!

Anyways i always play on the Hardest Difficulty Vs several AI if that matters as far as this question goes.

Now I'm trying to learn how to play as the Dominion, (Which at first glance appears to be very weak even when mixing fleets but is probably a Learn to Play issue) .

Anyways as to my BUG?! question... i have a 1500+ slot Fleet 20+ weapons platforms a star base and 2 NOR stations...that Cannot KILL 1! romulan Flagship Z-1 war bird, now its shield Mitigation is 100% and i have seen it briefly go to 101%, its anti mater isn't draining... and its holding up my whole fleet.

What do i do? is this a bug? or a LTP issue?  if its a bug let me know and ill disable/tweak the ability that is causing it.

Also the NOR stations make a horribly annoying Looping (non stop) sound, which i disabled by removing the command to use sound Effect_Resupply.oog....if thats remotely usefully information.

EDIT:   so i did some digging, and found that the Romulan Capital Colony Ship had its Mitigation set to go up 0.10000... Per level.

I cross checked with other capitals and noticed none of them were made to raise Mitigation from leveling up. So i changed the 1 to a 0, and reloaded my save.... the Capitals Mitigation was at about 31% instead of 100+% and promptly Vaporised under the Might of the Dominion.

Now if it was intended for the Mitigation to go up on this 1 ship, ill change it back... but id love a tip on how to kill the damn  thing!

Yeah, it's one of those things that will be fixed in the next update.

Reducing graphic settings only helps a little. The Sins is more CPU intensive in late game than graphic intensive, and SoA 2 was made with graphic performance in mind. All assets (meshes, and textures) are equal to, or smaller in size than the original sins assets they replaced. Reducing fleet size will effect the AI somewhat, but it should only be during early game when the factions are expanding.

In usually play at default settings with bloom, and ship mesh highlight filter disabled.

Your rig itself may need more speed. I play with a 3 year old i5 3.2 gig cpu, 6 gigs ddr3 ram, but that don't matter because sins can only use 2 of those 6 gigs, and a gforce gt520 2 gig ddr3 video card. I get slowdown in late game just like everyone else does. It has to do with cpu speed, and ram speed. Obviously a 4 gig cpu will make sins perform faster in late game than a 3.2 gig. Also ddr5 ram will make the game perform faster than ddr3 ram. However since its still a single core 32 bit game the performance increase wont be much.

Spoke with Saul he is back onboard full time next week. Also im back full time 2.  Guess we are rebellion bound sooner or later .

jay

Gotta say, even with Rebellion out, I still prefer this mod.

There wont be any SoA 2: Rebellion until "I" (Meaning ME) make the SoA 2 Foundation for Rebellion first, and incorporate a new TSOP for Rebellion into it. Trust me. It is gonna need TSOP. (You guys did read the plan i laid out on ModDB right?). Once i do this then i can finally retire from modding, and SoA 2 will be all yours to do what you want with it. In the mean time you guys really should worry about Finishing the Diplomacy version first. Rebellion can wait. I am almost positive that Rebellion will have a few mod breaking patches before we can finish porting it over.

The devs changed the relations system in Diplomacy to cut both ways.  You have to like the AI enough for the treaty as well.  If you're having problems in that area, it's probably due to that.  You can check your view of them at the same time you check theirs of you in the Relations screen.

Hi guys,

I am relatively new to Sins having gone out and bought trinity after seeing a trailer for rebellion, and I have to say your mod is amazing. I remember playing the SOA for Homeworld years ago but this is even better.

I have a question about the galaxy map, I am playing on a custom map I created with 20 star systems and when I zoom out to galaxy view I cannot see any of the other stars on the map, it makes viewing my multi star empire difficult, as I have to hover the mouse over an area to see what appears.

I have done some modding to sins, so know my way around the files and I would like to know how I can change the map back to the original sins one with the big stars or I have STARs mod so I could change it to that one?

Waldo: most people making a multi-star map put the stars to far apart which will make the zoom out zoom so far out you cant see anything.

Here is what I did for SOA so just reverse if you want.
Spiral Galaxy 

No, that is now hardcoded.

Well that doesn't sound good.

Run it from the dev.exe and let me know what kind of error it throws.

Are you playing after enabling the mod in the same session?

If so, don't.  The in game loader seems to have issues.  You should play with the mod loaded on startup.

The error you posted doesn't cause crashes.  Not really sure what it's from, but I get it all the time.