The compression is around the bubble, not inside it.  That would compress the ship as well.  There are diagrams showing this, as well as in show statements that space inside the bubble is normal.

It's okay, you can still keep your nerd card.

I like the little changes to the UI; having proper + and - buttons are nice, although I notice that the icons for Elite/Cruiser/Frigate have returned to default rather than a federation ship design (at least, that's what's happened for the Feds).

Just a little thing; there's a Romulan Star Empire logo on the Federation's Fleet Supply page - I'm guessing it's not intentional? And gas giants; maps that featured them (such as custom galaxy forge maps) no longer feature them, which can be game breaking (for instance, there's no longer phase lanes between systems). Will you be releasing a galaxy forge fix for this at all?

Also, just as a little query; will you be bringing back the grey race logo colour? I always thought it was a nice little change from the outrageous colours that Sins provided.

Fantastic to have another release - keep up the good work, folks!

@Yanxa: I hope you deleted or renamed old version.This is a fresh install.

The ROM logo on fleet supply will be fixed when all the skins are fixed. I built a new texture template for ROM skin and used across races for testing. Doing a custom skin for each race will take time.

Grey is for pirates, change it in the Window folder if you like. 

Window/Colors.color

playerColor:0 ffFF0000
playerColor:1 ffFF7A00
playerColor:2 ffFFC705
playerColor:3 ff8FD81D
playerColor:4 ff007037
playerColor:5 ff0EADFF
playerColor:6 ff0044AE
playerColor:7 ffFF87FF
playerColor:8 ff8822B7
playerColor:9 ff00FFFF
playerColor:NPC ffbdbdbd

leave the small ff and use web to pick colours you like

OLD Maps and saves are no longer compatible. The GSD is completely rebuilt.

The "open build management" fed icons will all be redone soon. Someone DDSed all my files and I lost originals when my harddrive failed. To crappy to reuse.

And please, NO SPOILERS PEOPLE

mephistopheles

Thank you Psychoak, and Myfisto for continuing where i left off I wish i could have done something, but RL is what it is.

SoA 2 is meant to be played on hard AI (the highest non cheating AI), and max fleet supply (if it hasn't been changed in the new release). Easy, and Normal AI should only be used by new players to get to know the factions unit's, strengths, and weakness's. It is a known issue that some of the factions are very lethargic, and/or won't expand on easy AI. Since the AI is hard coded there isn't much we can do. The AI seems to work best on hard settings. Do not use Cruel, Insane, or Vicious AI. Especially if you have the Borg in play. Those AI's will cheat the Borg research way earlier than they should have it. Making the Borg almost impossible to beat. Even if you allied with all four factions.

As for the phaser research i believe the "burst phasers" (TMP era WoK style) are tied into this research as well. Again i wont know for sure until i download the new release. I had no hand in making this release. Other than suggestions. If they aren't. They "should" be.

All I have to say so far is......holy crap.

Fist said there would be changes coming and he wasn't kidding. Per request won't reveal some of the changes but very impressed so far with everything. I had to smile several times as new things were revealed. Thanks again for everyone's hard work.

The annoying "First Run Crash Bug" still exists. If you play immediately after enabling the mod chances are you will crash. To avoid this. Enable the mod. Then restart Sins with the mod enabled. It should run fine after this. We don't know why it crashes on first run.

SoA 2 is intended to be played as the four major factions vs an AI Borg opponent (The Borg are OP by design). With the four factions starting out as enemy's. You must use diplomacy to ally with each other to defeat the Borg. How you play the four factions is up to you. However if you want to steamroll the map just for giggles, or just check out the Borg unit's then play as the Borg.

I played Borg, and I was an evil motherf****er for about three hours

Three Assimilation Cubes and you are unstoppable!

Speeds are now closer to canon. Little pests are actually supposed to be slower than the frigs/ elites. I'm sure psy will correct me soon.

Pics are already done for next patch, already posted info on modDB, if you are referring to the pic for each research section which ROM is already done in 0.6D. Couldn't find squat for DOM, they're using stock pics.

Excellent. Thanks for the info.

Thanks to everyone who gave us the positive feedback. 

And a thank you to all our loyal Diplomacy users who did not release any spoilers, great work, keep it up. 

Rebellion's modDB page was created today and is waiting for authorization. There is a link to it from the modDB Trinity page but will most likely show a broken link for a day, maybe 2. I listed the release date as June 1 2013 but that's a late expectation, psy and I will try for the next week or 2 but no promises.

Live long and...

oh wait

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. 

Ya, they need to be very large poly counts to get a mesh that huge to look round, not really worth the RAM IMO. Unless enough people want it changed maybe more RAM can be set aside for it, or would you rather more race models in the future?

The planets I added use slightly less polys