Star trek armada 2 Future Wars

posted on September 18th, 2011, 8:48 pm

i have just discovered a armada 2 mod called future wars and it looks amazing but the reasion im on here is it had a link to the fleet ops community and i was wondering if you amazing ppl that make this also had something to do with that if so could you tell me y it gives me a error report and shuts down the game everytime i try to do a instant action game 

posted on September 18th, 2011, 9:05 pm

The link is because Future Wars uses the Fleet Ops 1.2.5 Patch Project. Future Wars is a completely independent project to Fleet Ops

posted on September 18th, 2011, 11:36 pm

ah ok thanks

posted on September 19th, 2011, 11:30 am

i was in contact with the developers when this project was still running. development on future wars has been put on hold due to time constrains and/or lack of interest, as in parallel they started another project for sins of a solar empire. though this armada 2 mod was full of very interesting ideas, the project never was finished and still has some bugs.
i recently contacted them again to offer support in transferring the mod to the new FO version, which also would fix some of the issues the mod currently has, however they lack free time to continue support/work on future wars now.
if i remember correctly they also had bad luck with some of their members of the team who just did not finish the work they had promised to do. also as they only speak german and only very little english, it is hard for them to get support from the bigger international armada modding community.

posted on September 19th, 2011, 2:34 pm

i have just discovered a armada 2 mod called future wars and it looks amazing but the reasion im on here is it had a link to the fleet ops community and i was wondering if you amazing ppl that make this also had something to do with that if so could you tell me y it gives me a error report and shuts down the game everytime i try to do a instant action game 

Hmm... I never got a crash when I ran it.  is it possible that patch 1.2.5 is not compatible with your comp?  I always loved that mod, but I couldn't use any of its models becausae of restrictions.   and they were cool models too.

posted on September 19th, 2011, 5:44 pm

I've been in contact with them too when they were active over a year ago, but lost contact since then. All their mod projects seem to be on hold or given up by now. I did translate a lot of strings for their sins of a solar empire mod before they descended to inactivity.

I actually heard them complaining multiple times about the FO devs and the mod in general for that matter. You wouldn't respond them and some of their models would've been stolen and used here.

I don't want to accuse you of stealing models or anything, I suppose there has just been some miscommunication on several occasions. If there is a chance to contact them and clear something up that might encourage them to continue their work.

posted on September 19th, 2011, 6:08 pm

It would be nice if they would independantly release there models for personal install use (they did the kliingons), as they had some of the nicest models and also a very diffeerent texture scheme for the feds.

posted on September 19th, 2011, 6:17 pm

hey zap! yes, there was some miscommunication between me and frankie/drago as they could not reach me via IM. but this has long been cleared. we do only use a handful of 3rd party models in FO, so i don't think there were ever problems concerning model stealing. actually we were offered to use some of the future wars models in FO which we never made use of though.
that i offered support in adapting future wars to support the FO modding modules was just last month. see here (german) -> result: no time which of course is a very understandable reason

posted on September 19th, 2011, 7:09 pm

i have it fixed now sort of the game dont like working if i turn the fog of war off but now i get 10 mins into the game and get a Out of memory: increase swap file size. message i have looked at other posts about this problem and unless im blind there is no answer to how i could fix it because 1 " is missing out of thousands or something like that any one no what to do as now i got a teaser of this game i want more

posted on September 19th, 2011, 7:25 pm

What is you're OS and is it 64-bit?

posted on September 19th, 2011, 7:26 pm

my OS is Vista and it is 32 Bit