How to assimilates technology ?

posted on October 6th, 2011, 12:01 pm

Hi,

i couldnt really find any information about it, but how do i assimilate technology? I remember that i did it once. I had some assimilated sovereign class that i sent to some station and then, technology was added to the cubes or something but either i am blind or this was in Armada 2 only. I did really everything, i choosed the assimilate avatar and assimilated the whole federation once and got that construction ship. It builds somekinda station which is totally useless because it doesnt do anything (else than i can now repair assimilated ships). Did i do something wrong or what?

Also another question (dont want to open another thread for it) but how can i open/edit ODF.fpq ? I cannot find any information about that as well. It would be good to have more information about something like that. Also i just wanted to say that i was very confused about this mod when i was playing Borg first time. I was thinking "why the hell are those borg ships not going to be build" until i found out that i have to add technology nodes. Maybe this information is somewhere but i couldnt find it (tried google and searched on this website)

posted on October 6th, 2011, 12:29 pm

Hi and welcome to the forum.

Assimilating tech doesn't exist in fleetops, only in stock armada 2. You described it accurately, capture ship, then send to tech assimilator to give the special to cubes.

Currently the borg mixed tech is only a repair dock. It used to be more, and it will be again in a future patch.

Odf.fpq can be managed with the program fpqedit.exe, which is located in the same directory as odf.fpq. Fpqedit will be improved over time.

As you discovered, borg ships need modules. This fact and info about the rest of your questions is in the guide at guide.fleetops.net

The main page has a link to the guide (game guide), but it seems several people have missed it. Maybe it needs to be more prominent.

posted on October 6th, 2011, 12:56 pm

some of the weapons in fleet operations are not assimilable for (program) technical reasons, therefore this feature is not yet used by us yet. we may add tech assimilation back at a later stage, though not exactly the same way as it was in stock armada 2. we have a lot of planned for the assimilation avatar and borg in general
tech assimilation is of course still usable by mods for FO, however there is a bug in the current version that can cause a crash to desktop if used (that will be fixed in the upcoming version).

posted on October 6th, 2011, 1:40 pm

aah thanks for the fast answer..

and of course, thanks for that mod. its awesome i have to say,.. makes armada 2 a good game again. i hope, one day, someone will develop more star trek games...

posted on October 6th, 2011, 4:16 pm

tech assimilation is of course still usable by mods for FO, however there is a bug in the current version that can cause a crash to desktop if used (that will be fixed in the upcoming version).

Wish I had seen this before starting a game in the stock A2 Import mod with a Borg opponent.