Armada II: Evolution - comes to FleetOps!

posted on May 27th, 2011, 9:43 pm

Actually, I'm developing the mod with Fleet Operations, because the new patches contain several bugfixes and sometimes some new valuable options for modders. SO the mod is compatible with 3.2.2 and I think it's comaptible backwards until... I don't know. There was a patch which caused a CTD because there was a string which was changed in the mining ships' ODF. Back til that version, Evolution is copatible with everything (so far).

posted on May 28th, 2011, 2:47 am

Oh ok, well that is good to hear indeed. Thank you for all the answers, I'll be looking forward to new info (Hopefully you will get the site updated! lol)

posted on May 28th, 2011, 5:50 am

I had a thought, tell me what you think...For the mixed tech, what if you retextured ships? for example, you are playing as feds, allied with klingons, in your mixed tech yard you can build a k'tinga ship, but here is the twist, its got federation textures on it, the white or darker grey hull, blue glow on the nacelles...stuff like that. or a rom/fed alliance, you get a excelsior with the romulan textures.
I can imagine this would be an absolute nightmare to do. making textures must be very difficult, but it would be really awsome I think...a soverign with dominion textures...heheheh.

so, a worthy idea do you think?

posted on May 28th, 2011, 2:52 pm

Well... Why not? It's possible, but I can't see the point of having a Sovereign with Dominion textures... Sure, a Sovy with DOm special weapons would be useful, but only because of the different textures, nobody would build them.
Most likely I'll use special shipclasses which will be buildable only if you have the prerequisite ally. For exampl, the Federation won't have cloaked ships. But if they have a Rommie friend... 

[Tyler]

posted on May 28th, 2011, 2:59 pm

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It would be possible, but more likely to happen with captured ship. A race is more likely to capture a ship and repaint it in their own colors (logo replacement and so on) than build an enemy one. As with the IKSV Staav'eMara, the Federation Loknar Class USS Morgan City that was captured and repainted by the Klingons (pity it's not canon).

Klingon/Romulan alliance was probably an exception, they probably didn't consider using Klingon ships and insult back then.

posted on May 28th, 2011, 3:11 pm

hmm, ok, i can see what you both mean, but i actually found an example of what im talking about

STLegacyFiles.com - Screenshots for File: Federation Warbird

tell me that isnt the most awsome thing since...the last awsome thing that came around. kinda lost my train of thought there. lol.

but you think people wouldent use stuff like that? i mean special ships are awsome, i just thought several different versions of the defiant for example was boring. now, you give me the same defiant with dominion textures and engine glow, now that'd be something id jump all over

posted on May 29th, 2011, 5:56 pm

This could be a total different art of modding: Retexturing ships and adding them to different races  AN Alternate-Trek Mod. Personally, with rare exceptions, I don't like much ships retextured to a different race.
But if I'd add a Defiant Class for the Dominion as a special ship, I'm sure that would be recolored to fit into the Dominion fleet 
We'll see...

posted on May 29th, 2011, 8:22 pm

see? haha, didn't care for the fed warbird though? that was what i was talking about. even if you dont expand on the concept, any ships (like the defiant) that do get a cross race makeover would be awsome just throwing my opinion in there, if you are to do something to that effect, here would be my top favorite ideas.

- excelsior, constitution, soverign
- k'tinga, vorcha, luspet
- warbird, rhienn, norexean
- attack destroyer, battleship, dreadnaught
- any non borg ship, with total borg textures

just my opinion, but a retexture on any of those would look great. but, aside from all that, how are things coming so far?

posted on May 30th, 2011, 3:00 pm

So a general status report, eh? Let's see...

I'm focusing with 90% on the Feds and 10% on the Rommies. The Feds will be released first.
I'm polishing the last of the models for the Federation, so that is almost ready. My friend Admiral Zaxxon is working on the wireframes and the buildbuttons. I'M not making his work easy because he didn't even see all the models he has to work with 
On the coding side, techtree is almost complete. I'm gonna need several special weapons though, and LOT LOT LOT LOT of balance. It's very hard to balance a mod which includes both NX and Sovereign Classes 
I also started to work on the manual. It's quite fun to work on something totally different than models, textures and coding. I'll show you some teaser from it during this week. Maybe today

Stay tuned!

posted on May 30th, 2011, 6:49 pm

Sounds good, hope to see some pictures soon 

posted on May 30th, 2011, 7:01 pm

ooh! a preview?!? 

posted on June 1st, 2011, 1:42 pm

OK, here is the first teaser for the mod: the timeline. Pictures will follow later.

2063
Zefram Cochrane launches the Phoenix, mankind's first warp-capable ship. First contact between humans and vulcans.

2069
The last Klingon Emperor dies. The Klingon Grand Council takes the political control of the Empire.

2113
United Earth is formed.

2151
Launch of the first Terran Warp 5-capable starship, Enterprise NX-01.

2156
The Romulans led by the fear of the alliance formed by United Earth becomes too strong launch a full-scale attack against human-controlled space. Beginning of the Earth-Romulan War.

2160
Earth-Romulan War ends with the Battle of Cheron with Terran victory. The Romulan Neutral Zone is established.

2161
United Federation of Planets is formed.

2218
Diplomatic conflict between the Klingons and the Federation. The relations between the two powers turn to wary.

2221
The Klingon Empire and the Lyran Empire assault the Kzinti Barony and Hydran Empire. The Four Powers War begins.

2223
The Klingons demand several disputed regions from the Federation, inluding Organia and the Archanis sector. Beginning of the Federation-Klingon Cold War.

2224
The Four Powers War ends with the status quo.

2232
The Lyrans and the Klingons invade the Kzinthi Barony. The General War begins.

2233
The Klingon-Lyran Coalition attacks the Hydran Empire. The Hydrans join the General War. The Kzinthi-Hydran alliance is formed.

2234
Klingon forces invade Federation space. The Federation joins the Alliance.

2236
The Romulan Star Empire invades the Federation and joins the Coalition.

2237
The Gorn join the Allaince and attack the Romulan Star Empire.

2239
The Tholian Assembly starts to support the Alliance but they refuse to operate their ships outside of their own territory.

2248
The General War ends with restoring the pre-war borders on all fronts.

2267
The Klingon ultimatum to the Federation about ceding all disputed regions, including Organia and the Archanis sector. The Federation refuses the Klingon demands. The war is prevented by Organian Revolution, which forces the sides to sign a peace treaty. Hostilities continue alongside the border.
Nimbus III colony is established as the Planet of Galactic Peace by the Romulan Star Empire, the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

2268
Brief alliance between the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire. They exchange technologies: The Romulans get starship frame construction technology in exchange for their Cloaking Device.

2271
The Klingon-Romulan alliance breaks. Klingon-Romulan battle at Klach D'kel Brakt, with Klingon victory.

2285
Khan Noonian Sing tries to steal the Genesis Weapon from Regula I Station but is stopped by the USS Enterprise.

2292
The Klingon-Romulan Alliance formally ends.

2293
The moon Praxis explodes causing ecological disaster on the Klingon Homeworld of Qo'noS. The Klingon Empire is forced to seek peace with the Federation. The Khitomer Accords are signed. End of Federation-Klingon Cold War.

2309
Cardassia offers help to the Planet of Bajor.

2311
Conflict between the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire, known as the Tomed Incident, takes place. To avoid similar incidents, the Treaty of Algeron reestablishes the Romulan Neutral Zone. The Federation gives up any researches to get cloacking technology. The Romulans go to total isolation.

2328
The Federation makes first contact with the Cardassian Union. The Cardassian Union annexes Bajor. The Betreka Nebula Incident opens the Klingon-Cardassian Cold War.

2344
Romulan attack against the Klingon colony of Narendra III. The crew of the USS Enterprise-C sacrefice themselves to save the Klingons. This heroic deed significantly improves the relations between the Klingon Empire and the Federation.

2345
Gul Dukat becomes the Prefect of Bajor. The construction of Terok Nor begins.

2346
Terok Nor becomes fully operational. The Romulans form an alliance with the Great House of Duras. Romulan attack against the Klingon outpost of Khitomer (the event is known as the Khitomer Massacre). The Klingons sign peace with the Cardassians.

2347
Cardassians invade Setlik III. The Federation-Cardassian War begins.

2365
The Federation makes first contact with the Borg. The Romulans reopen communication with the Federation.

2366
End of open hostilities in the Federation-Cardassian War.

2367
The First Borg Incursion and the Battle of Wolf 359 takes place. The Federation and the Cardassian Union signs ceasefire agreement. Gowron becomes Chancellor of the Klingon Empire, but House of Duras refuses to acknowledge him. The Klingon Civil War begins.

2368
Starfleet reveals that the Romulans secretly support House of Duras in the Klingon Civil War. They intercept Romulan ships crossing the Klingon border with supplies to Duras. End of the Klingon Civil War.

2369
Cardassia unsuccessfully tries to annex the Igo Sector and Minos Korva. End of the Cardassian expansion. Cardassians leave Bajor. The Bajoran Temporary Government asks Starfleet to take over the control of Terok Nor (now known as Deep Space 9). Commander Benjamin Sisko takes command of the station. Sisko discovers a stable wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant in the Denorios belt. First contact with the the Wormhole aliens, called "the Prophets".

2370
Signing of the Federation-Cardassian Peace Treaty, the Cardassian Demilitarized Zone is formed. End of Federation-Cardassian War. First contact with the Dominion. The Federation-Dominion Cold War begins. Changelings start to destabilize the Alpha Quadrant.

2371
The Maquis rebellion begins. Joint action of the Cardassian Obsidian Order and the Romulan Tal Shiar against the Founders' homeworld ends in a total disaster. Cardassia turns into chaos. Jankata Accord about not entering the Gamma Quadrant with the purpose of expansion is signed.

2372
The Klingon Empire attacks the Cardassian Union. The second Klingon-Cardassian War begins. The Federation refuses to join the Klingons. Gowron withdraws from the Khitomer Accords. After the Federation refuses the ultimatum of Gowron to take over from the Archanis sector, the second Klingon-Federation War begins. The first battle of Deep Space 9 takes place. The Klingon Empire occupies nearly the half of the Cardassian Union.

2373
The Second Borg Incursion and Battle of Sector 001. Gul Dukat signs an Alliance with the Dominion. The Dominion starts to build up their forces within the Cardassian Union. The Klingon-Federation and Klingon-Cardassian Wars end. The Dominion War begins. The Dominion signs non-aggression treaties with the Romulan Star Empire, the Tholian Assembly, the Miradorn Republic and Planet of Bajor. The Gorn Hegemony joins the Alliance. Deep Space 9 crew mines the wormhole, preventing the arrival of more Dominion reinforcements. The Dominion occupies Deep Space 9. The Dominion annexes the Cardassian Union.

2374
The Alliance takes back Deep Space 9, blocking the Dominion to get reinforcements from the Gamma Quadrant. The Dominion and the Alliance signs a ceasefire treaty, but border incidents happen everyday. The Breen join the Dominion. The Romulan Star Empire joins the Alliance. The Ceasefire Agreement ends.

2375
The Changelings start to suffer from the symptoms of the disease of Section 31. The Breen attack Earth. Damar, the former leader of the Cardassian Empire starts a rebellion against the Dominion. Chancellor Gowron tries to destroy the Dominion alone but he is challenged and killed by Worf, son of Mogh. Martok becomes the new Chancellor. The last battle of the Dominion War takes place in the Cardassia system. The Dominion War ends with the Treaty of Bajor.

2376
The Federation starts to help the Cardassian Union to regenerate from the devastating war.

2378
USS Voyager returns from the Delta Quadrant. Debate starts about if Voyager managed to completely destroy the Borg or not. Starfleet starts Project Osiris to prepare the Federation against a possible Borg attack.

2379
The Romulan Senate is assassinated by senator Tal'Aura. Shinzon of Remus becomes Prateor of the Romulan Star Empire. The Battle of Bassen Rift. Shinzon dies when his flagship, the IRW Scimitar is destroyed. Tal'Aura proclaims herself to Praetor as she is the only member of the Senate left alive. She blames the Remans for the coup against the Senate. The Reman Rebellion begins.

2380
The Female Changeling is put on trial and detained at the maximum security facility on Ananke Alpha for her crimes in the Dominion War.
Open opposition in the Imperial Starfleet against Tal'Aura. The leaders, Commanders Braeg and Donatra question Tal'Aura's right to be Praetor. Admirals Tomalak and Sela support Tal'Aura. The Tal Shiar agents kill Braeg. Donatra blames Tal'Aura for his death and starts a revolution. The Romulan Civil War begins. The Separatists capture Archernar Prime, Xanitla, Ralatak, Virinat and other smaller systems and proclaim the independence of the Imperial Romulan State, under the leader of Empress Donatra.

2381
The Romulan Star Empire demands from the Federation and the Klingon Empire not to recognize the Imperial Romulan State. Chancellor Martok quickly recognizes the new Romulan state, the Federation refuses to take side in this situation. Donatra asks the Remans to join her. The Remans leave Remus and join the Imperial State. End of the Reman Rebellion.

2382
The Imperial Romulan State attacks and captures Ritani Fleet Yards. Coup-attempt against Tal'Aura, prevented by the Tal Shiar. Demonstrations and strikes against the Praetor start everyday.

2383
The Tal Shiar offers cooperation to Tal'Aura to stabilize her rule. They improve the Imperial Starfleet ships with secret technologies. The Battle of Ingol stops the advancement of the Imperial State. Tal'Aura slowly and secretly becomes the puppet of the Tal Shiar.

2385
Thal Shiar agents unsuccessfully try to kill Empress Donatra by destroying her flagship, the Valdore. She leads a succesful raid against a Tal Shiar shipyard and steals the prototype of the D'Vorix Class Warbird.

2386
Cardassian extremists try to rebuild the Cardassian fleet with Hydran help, but they are defeated by the Cardassian government and the Federation.

2387
The star of Hobus is about to become a supernova, endangering Romulus. Ambassador Spock unsuccessfully tries to defend the planet, but fails and disappears during the attempt. Romulans start to evacuate Romulus, but refuse the help of the Imperial State and the Klingon Empire. The military estimates it will take six weeks to evacuate the planet, but twenty-seven hours later, the Hobus star goes supernova. The resulting chain reaction destroys Romulus and Remus and billions of Romulans are killed - including Tal'Aura.

2388
The Romulan Star Empire turns into disarray. Several planets declare themselves to the new capital and several planets decide to join the Imperial State. On the Second Bajoran Conference, Cardassia forms an alliance with the Federation.

2389
The Federation tries to help pacifying the Romulan Star Empire. They warn both the Klingon Empire and the Imperial Romulan State not to exploit the situation.

2391
Admiral Taris proclaims herself second time the Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire. This time almost 80% of the planets recognize her. Taris starts to stabilize the Star Empire. She accuses the Vulcans with knowing about the danger of Hobus but did not warn the Star Empire. Although she can't prove her words, rumors start to spread abut that the Vulcans cannot be trusted.

2398
The first Federation exploration vessels arrive to the border of Gamma quadrant.

2400
The Cardassian Empire opens an embassy on Bajor.

2403
Donatra reforms the Imperial Romulan State into the Romulan Republic. She steps down as empress and serves the Republic as Fleet Admiral of the Republic Starfleet. Rebellion strikes the Romulan Empire. Admiral Sela and Commander Velal seize the power from Praetor Taris by the help of the Tal Shiar. Sela becomes Praetor, Velal becomes Fleet Admiral. With both the government and the military under their control, Sela and Velal manage to stabilize the Star Empire.

2410
The first Federation Transwarp Gate opens. Although these devices make interstellar travel faster, they can be used only if there is a gate portal on both the start and the destination point.

2412
The Tal Shiar launches Project Ibis to build a huge starship which could match even a Borg Cube one-on-one.

2420
Federation makes first contact with the Vreenans, a warp-capable race, close to the center of the galaxy.

2423
The Federation establishes the Nervan colony, a few thousands lightyears from the Vreenan border.

2428
The Vreenan Empire reports that several ships and stations are destroyed or disappeared alongside their borders in the Delta Quadrant.

2430
The planet of Anexia, one of the core worlds of the Vreenan Empire is attacked by the mysterious aggressors, who are later identified as the Borg. The Federation provides the Vreenans every information and certain technologies they could use against the Borg, but refuses to send starships to fight.

2431
Internal turmoil within the Federation. Many people accuse the leadership that they use the Vreenans as specimen to test their experimental anti-Borg technologies. The Second Fleet disobeys Starfleet orders and instead of returning to Federation space, they head to the Vreenan Empire. The president of the Federation describes this event like he ordered the Second Fleet to help the Vreenans. This resolves the internal crisis. On the Session of Vulcan leaders of the Alpha Quadrant discuss possible ways to defeat the Borg. The Session's only result is the establishment of a defensive border called the Expansion Zone along the Federation and Romulan border.

2432
The Tal Shiar increases their effort to finish the Ibis project as soon as possible. Alpha Quadrant forces finish the establishment of the Expansion Zone.

2433
The Vreenan Empire collapses. The remnants of the Second Fleet flee to Federation territory, with millions of refugees behind them. The Romulan Star Empire sends the Exploratory Fleet into the Expansion Zone.

2436
The first Borg ship invades the Expansion Zone.

2437
Massive Borg breakthrough, the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire begin to evacuate civilians from the Expansion Zone. The Borg War begins. The Alpha Quadrant Alliance is formed by the Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Cardassian Union, the Gorn Hegemonny and the two Romulan states.

2439
The defense of the Expansion Zone collapses. The Borg invade the Alpha Quadrant. Direct Borg attack against Earth. Allied forces intercept the invading fleet at Bolarus. The president of the Federation introduces the April Directive, also called the Special Instructions.

2440
The Borg slowly advance on every front while they try to attack directly Sector 001 again and again.

2442
Borg cubes penetrate Federation defense lines and invade Sector 001. Before the assimilation of Earth, Starfleet issues Operation Exodus.

2444
Operation Exodus is in effect. The Federation manages to avoid total defeat. In the fall of the year they managed to hold all their planets. The front lines freeze.

2445
A Tholian squadron destroys a Borg Diamond which infiltrated their border. The Borg invades Tholian territory, but they are unable to assimilate the crystalline beings.

2446
Single player campaign begins. (Yup,that's right! I have a storybook for an SP campaign too  )

posted on June 1st, 2011, 4:14 pm

Sounds awsome, you got everything all laid out!  can't wait to see the pics, and the cube sized romulan ship! that should be quite a sight. any chance of the klingons getting something like that?

[Lost_Spaceship]

posted on June 1st, 2011, 4:27 pm

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How many races are playable ?? Reading the storyline, there are several races.

In Enterprise Era, you can put Earth, Vulcan and Andorians at same race (Federation).

I love this ship: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Andorian_battle_cruiser Kumari - Andorian Battlecruiser.

posted on June 1st, 2011, 7:02 pm

I see you used the STO Path to 2409 as your guide.