This project will use Fleet-Ops enhanced engine to rebalance the Stock Armada 2 game-play. With the exception of Species 8472 no longer being a playable faction, and the Borg no longer having any stations with the exception of special games, and the orbital facility, the units will be the same as they were before, but rebalanced to require more skill rather than more speed. You will also be able to upgrade or refit your units just like in fleet-ops, but with the exception of the Borg, no new units or models will be added. Well, technically, a planet is a unit, but they all use the same models. I'll add more planets and more spots to get Dilithium and Latinum from. Biomatter will be used for supply and the trading station will be enhanced.
Here are some more features for this mod:
GENERAL GAMEPLAY- Scout-russhing is now just annoying. To the player that is doing the scout-rush, it's a waste of resources.
- The trading station has been given enhanced features.
- All factions start with construction ships and scouts, but not starbases.
- Mixed-tech is now available with the ability to build from the alien techtree and the ability to give construction ships. All ships can be given to allies now.
- Species-8472 is no longer playable, but can be placed in as map objects.
- Ships won't go derelict as easily as they used to without special weaponry.
- The mining rates are different for each faction, and each faction can hold a different resource payload.
BORG- The Borg will now build Orbital facilities around planets.
- The Borg now have no real base to build from, allowing them to build anywhere on the map that they want.
- Borg Probe can be converted into a Probe Relay station.
- The Borg adaptor (previously called Assimilator in stock Armada 2) now has a technology assimilator and crew assimilator only on adaption modules that can only lock onto vessel of the faction the adaption modules are from.
- The sphere, diamond, and cube now have technology assimilator and crew assimilator when equipped with more than one assimilation module, and has holding beam when equipped with at least one assimilation module.
- The adaptor has an extra chassis that takes the place of the Assembler, Mining Station, Research Center, and Recycler with the respective modules.
- The Adaptor will do increased damage to vessels of the faction that the adaption modules are from and receive reduced damage.
- The probe has a special module to allow it to mine from dilithium resources.
- The Borg require you to assimilate crew with the crew assimilator in order to survive. Don't use the crew assimilator, and you will loose!
CARDASSIAN- The dreadnought missile is now armed and has stronger shields.
- The bioship that is brought onto the map by the quantum singularity weapon is now a lot stronger and a lot more dangerous to use.
- Some of the special weapons have been enhanced.
FEDERATION- The Temporal research facility's weapon now lasts 2 minutes instead of 45 seconds.
- The Agein class special has been moved to the Nebula class. The Agein class has been removed.
- The Defiant class is not considered a battleship.
- The Iwo Jima class has a pulse that targets the shield generators.
- The Saber class and Intrepid class now have a few tricks up their sleaves.
- Federation turrets can be upgraded to go into late-game.
I haven't though about what the other factions will have yet. I'm not familiar enough with them to know what to modify. But they all have some sort of enhancement. Also, there are gameplay features I forgot to list. I'm sure that I'll remember after I hit the submit button.
I haven't had very much success with this conversion, so instead of putting them all in at once, I'll put them in one at a time to make sure that the game doesn't crash on me.
PROGRESS REPORT:
The good new is, that the program no longer crashes on start up. The bad news is, that as soon as I exit edit mode, the game crashes anyways. But it doesn't crash as long as I'm in edit mode.
I found that I accidentally deleted parts of my backup fleet-ops system. And when I copied it so I could create the mod, key interface elements were missing. Such as the font, cursor, selection rectangle, ect. I'm in the process of repairing that error.
I've been testing the stock defiant class vessel and other than the crashes interfering with the test, it looks good. I haven't been able to put it in action yet because of the crashes.
PROGRESS REPORT:
Now that I've got the system repairs sufficiently, the stock Defiant class vessel works now. It's a start, now for the rest of the units.
PROGRESS REPORT:
I'm going to add the Borg first because they'll take up the most ODFs. The Borg will have the following stations.
- Orbital Resource Assimilator - Built by Support Adaptor
- Assembly Framework - Built by Support Adaptor
- Probe Relay - Converts some probe variations into static relay stations/turrets.
The Borg will have the following chassis for their vessels.
- Probe - 2 Module Slots - Chassis Cost 150 Dilithium, 110 Metal (vessel has shields)
[li]Beam Module - Limit of 1 - Multi-Targeting Scanners + Partial Beam Adaption.
- Torpedo Module - Limit of 1 - New Torpedo Weapon + Partial Torpedo Adaption.
- Assault Module - Limit of 2 - Auto-Transport on shield drop + Boarding party strength.
- Detect Module - Limit of 2 - Basic Cloak Detection, Advanced Cloak Detection.
- Mining Module - Must be 0 or 2 Modules - Mines Dilithium from Dilithium Resources.
- Cargo Module - Must be 0 or 2 Modules - Converts the probe into a cargo ship to allow trade.
[/li] - Support Adaptor - 1 Module Slot - Chassis Costs 180 Dilithium, 145 Metal
[li]Assembly Module - Support Adaptor will be capable of building the scout cube, orbital resource assimilator, and assembly framework.
- Mining Module - Support Adaptor will be a mobile mining station for probes with the Mining module installed.
- Technology Module - Support Adaptor will research new special weapons for the collective.
- Recycler Module - Support Adaptor will will be able to take on resources and transmute dilithium into metal and vise-versa.
[/li] - Adaptor - 3 Module Slots - Chassis Costs 210 Dilithium, 190 Metal
[li]Beam Module - Limit of 1 - Phaser Cannon + Partial Beam Adaption
- Torpedo Module - Limit of 1 - Torpedo Launcher + Partial Torpedo Adaption
- Regen Module - Limit of 1 - Increases Regeneration Rate
- Adaption Module - Limit of 2 - 10% Adaption to Weapons + 10% Adaption to Defenses + Technology Assimilator specific to adapted faction.
[/li] - Sphere - 4 Module Slots - Chassis Costs 720 Dilithium, 480 Metal
[li]Beam Module - Limit of 3 - Multi-Targeting Scanners + Partial Beam Adaption
- Torpedo Module - Limit of 3 - Torpedo Launcher + Partial Torpedo Adaption
- Regen Module - Limit of 4 - Increase regeneration Rate, Adds Regen Special
- Assimilation Module - Limit of 3 - Adds Holding Beam, Adds Crew Assimilator, Adds Tech Assimilator.
[/li] - Diamond - 5 Module Slots - Chassis Costs 600 Dilithium, 750 Metal
[li]Beam Module - Limit of 3 - Milti-Targeting Scanners + Partial Beam Adaption
- Torpedo Module - Limit of 3 - Torpedo Launcher + Partial Torpedo Adaption
- Regen Module - Limit of 1 - Increases Regeneration Rate
- Assimilation Module - Limit of 3 - Holding Beam, Crew Assimilator, Tech Assimilator
- Support Module - Limit of 5 - Collective Priorities + Deep Scan + Shield Remodulator
[/li] - Cube - 6 Module Slots - Chassis Costs 1850 Dilithium, 1420 Metal
[li]Beam Module - Limit of 1 - Multi-Targeting Scanners + Partial Beam Adaption
- Torpedo Module - Limit of 3 - Torpedo Launcher + Partial Torpedo Adaption, Volley Torpedo Launcher
- Regen Module - Limit of 1 - Increases Regeneration Rate
- Assimilation Module - Limit of 3 - Holding Beam, Crew Assimilator, Tech Assimilator
- Tactical Module - Limit of 1 - Tactical Armor + Partial Weapons Adaption (dynamic scale)
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The research for the Borg has been figured out. You'll be able to research a limited amount of technologies. Also, the Borg won't use Latinum or Biomatter (called Supplies for this mod). Their ability to quickly climb the techtree (almost instant) is only hindered by the amount of resources that a player has as well as research time. If you had the resources, you could go right for the cube without building anything before hand.
Borg Technologies that are researched include the following. You have 20 Research Slots available. Research is Free!
- Basic Cloak Detection - 0 Slots Required
- Advanced Cloak Detection - 1 Slot Required
- Transwarp Drive - 5 Slots Required
- Partial Weapons Adaption - 2 Slots Required
- Partial Armor Adaption - 2 Slots Required
- Special Energy Enhancer - 1 Slot Required
- Computer Override - 3 Slots Required
- Interface Scrambler - 4 Slots Required
- Ultritium Burst - 3 Slots Required
- Cutting Beam - 3 Slots Required
- Resource Assimilation Adaption - 4 Slots Required
Special Borg Stations
- Capture-The-Flag Uni-Complex
- Uni-Complex
- Transwarp Hub
The Uni-Complex will be able to do all of your research for you, but will still take up Research Slots. You can't build them, but it's recomended that you keep them in one peice if you want the mission to succeede. The Uni-Complex can build Assembly Support Adaptors only. Although the Borg can give Latinum and Supplies, they don't use any Latinum or Supplies. And yes, they will be able to trade with you using convoys.
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