yeah st is dead thats sure. the new enterprise serie brought the dead. season 4 was so bad, just and childrean series with tpol and trip shit.... will u guys later  also include outposts?

The Borg are not the pirates

Does anyone know if I can get entrenchment without a credit card.

Hey guys! I'm really impressed with the work you've shown off so far and I'm looking forward "patiently" to the Entrenchment release. I'm wondering whether or not you will use Manshooters dynamic battle system? It may take alot of rebalancing but considering how it would obviously suit the source material so well do you think you may eventually include it?

Due have you seen star trek space battles, except for the battle against the borg cube in the first episode of ds9 and the first contact, the space battles of star trek, starships just hit each other just like it is done right now. the borg cube is much more different in that it is too large and because you have to keep moving to avoid being tractor. And in Sacriface of Angels, when the fleets battle, it mostly what it is doing right now. Also, given that the spaces are so large, and the rate it turns ATM, I really don't think it can be done

There were a few circumstances where more "dynamic" battles take place but as you say many take place at a slower more stand still pace. Well there are a quite a few in DS9 that are more mobile (to my best memory) and alot of the static battles seem to be because of limitations in technology, condsidering they used models most of the time. Well that's what I think.

We do plan on using our own dynamic movement. Psycloak pretty much summed it up. Each ship will have its own manueverability. The B'rel, Jem Hadar, and Defiant are planned to move as seen on the shows. Bigger ships obviously will be slower and sluggish. The Galaxy class was never known for turning on a dime. Each ship will have manueverability according to mass and engine power IIRC what Darkshimmer told me over the phone. The Original Homeworld SoA mod had ships with dynamic movement. With the new entrenchment code i expect something similar, but more refined here with SoA 2.

FYI the SoA 2 team is..

Major Stress aka The Stress Puppy of Trekmods (SoA2 project lead, Modeler, Texture Artist, Limited scripter, Gameplay design) Prior mod experience includes SoA1, Beyond the Final Frontier, and Innocence and Wrath for Homeworld. Age of War for Nexus the Jupiter Incident, plus many models for Starfleet Command, and Bridge Commander.

Darkshimmer of Digital Underground (SoA2 secondary project lead, Scripter, Weapon, and Effects Artist, Balance, and Gameplay Design) Prior mod experience includes MPMP for Bridge Commander, and was project lead of the Age of War mod for Nexus the Jupiter Incident.

LokiGodofMischief (Modeler, and Scripter)

AdmiralCobbs (Limited Scripter, and playtestor

You mean the look from SoA? where the klingons roll in and starts firing? that is cool, however, what would also be nice if nebula class did that too, shame there isn't z-control in the game, that would change everything

I was watching Star Trek The Motion Picture, and noticed that the music when the enterprise goes into the cloud, and that the music is the same as the one in the mod. What about other music?

Nope, don't care about rolling - in fact, I think that's generally too fighter-like for Star Trek ships. In Mansh00ter's mod, ships make nice, slow turns and attack runs, perfect for Star Trek. It will look great when the SOA2 Team makes their next release.

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The original post has been updated to hopefully clear up any misunderstanding, the BoPs were mentioned using the fighter style movement because they looked so awesome using it, but all ships except the larger borg vessels do use it. It is still being refined, but is in use.

We do need to work on some balancing issues that arose from implementing it, such as the Galaxy now being able to outshoot a Sovereign one on one, due to the Galaxy doing more damage per pass because it has more phaser banks. That's using the stats from before we switched to Entrenchment. They are being addressed and fixed.

This is my first time posting in these forums, but I did something to my version of SoA 2 (v0.03c), and I don't know if you guys wanted to keep it or not, but I figured that I would ask anyways (what's the worst you guys could do, tell me NO and make me look stupid?).

Anyways, I got sick and tired of playing the MOD and having all the AINamed after wierd SoaSE faction names and the Capital ships named with Advent, TEC, and Vasari ship names, so I did a little research and found a bunch of Star Trek Ship names (source http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/starship_database.htm) and changed the AI names to their race names (even going so far as to add a fourth set of names for the Romulans, since we have four races and not three).

Check it out here guys:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=3bbe5bd399c6bbf590a82c7bb0fad7ade04e75f6e8ebb871