from the various trek tv shows/movies i have seen i have noticed the following things

1. that pulsed phasers, and to a lesser extent, torpedoes (photon, and quantum) cause "bleed through" damage to the targets hull. with pulsed phasers there is almost always atleast some bleed through damage to the ships hull even when shields read 100% powerlevel, and torpedoes start to get bleed through damage at about 60-70% (quantum torpedos have greater bleed through damage and a higher level of penetration). now, i have also noticed this with Starfleet Command: vol 3 (/w the TNG mega mod aka dominion wars+). will the mod have bleed through damage at some point? if not, that's cool. it would keep the battles longer if you did keep it out.

2. when you add the dominion to fleet ops, will they have poleron (that can't be spelled right) beams, and torpedoes as primary weapons? and will the other races be able to develop shields that those weapons can't instantly penetrate?

and finally.
watching the movies/tv shows i noticed that damage to the warpcore can and most likely will cause a warpcore breach, and a destructive shockwave follows shortly after. is this going to go into the mod at some point if it is possible to create a script or something that can measure warpcore damage, or something like that and trigger a breach? keep in mind that it wouldn't happen every single time, but once in a while? like by %ages or something?

if your having trouble following me, sorry it's like 5am here and i haven't slept yet  

for the bleedthrough damage i think it is only possible if you turn "shieldprotection" to 0. but if you do this you will also get the ludicrous crew loss per shot, that REALLY annoyed me. e.g. fusion cube would be derilict before it shields had even been reduced to 8%  its a nice idea but don't think it possible with A2's game engine  

again second would be nice, but would soon lose its appeal when you get trounced by AI easy cos you haven't been able to research countermeasures, OR you trounce AI hard cos you have researched counters & the AI cant adapt like a human player would. any human playing as dominion would simply sweep the map clean at the start of the game.

the third idea sounds like the critical hit feature in stock A2 mixed with the self destruct explosion. anyone notice when a ship would simply explode, even with plenty of hp? found that more of a hinderance than anything else although it would be more cannon, in this case too cannon.  

like what i'm hearing, can't wait for v.3, but take your time, i'd would rather have a flawless (or nearly so) V.3 then a quickly made bugy one with multiple quick patches to follow

In regards to the critical hit to the warpcore ... I never really noticed it in Armada 2, but it seemed like destroyers were always dying prematurely in Armada 1. Instead of just exploding when all their systems turned red, they'd kind of glow white for a second after taking a hit on the hull and then kaboom. Is this what you're talking about?

with armada1 you could never tell what state the hull was in cos there was only a shiels bar  but yeah the turrets (not sensors) only need one hit after ther shields go down.

in A2 im talking about big ships (cubes, battleships mainly) they go kaboom sometimes after taking only minor hull & system damage.