Comments - nabeday2

Just wanted to personally thank all the team for creating the greatest Star Trek mod of all time. This more than lives up to the name Star Trek Armada and in so many ways surpasses the original titles. You should really add an installer as this for me goes beyond Sins of a Solar Empire and should be treated as its own game and not just a mod.

It saddens me that you guys can't make any money on this. I get that it was never the aim to profit from it but this deserves the recognition.

Just wanted to report a couple of bugs;

The Echo Papa 607 Drone has the wrong icon and seems to fly out of the gravity well when chased by the pirate ships.

I also notice that when playing as the Borg the sell metals buttons were not working. You can buy metal but for some reason I was unable to sell.

Really looking forward to the next release. One thing I would really love to see is the Fusion Cube as an additional Borg Titan. It was the greatest ship in Armada 2 and anyways you can never get enough Titans.

Looking forward to the release. I haven't been fortunate enough to try out the beta so really looking forward to playing Final Frontier. A big thanks to all the Devs for all their hard work over the years on STA3.

A quick question, I would love to have the freedom to build both titans. Could a little sub mod be provided to allow this?

Very excited, this is an extremely ambitious project and I really wish the Dev team every success. The focus with Sins is around conquering and expanding territory so I would like to know how the exploration aspect will work. Are the plans to upgrade the scouts and have them gain bonuses by simply being the first to get to certain worlds? If so, then the element of risk with either a positive bonus or a negative impact on the race. It would be great to see a Dev diary with a more detailed discussion on the upcoming changes.

Love the new update. The Feds are now much improved and a fully diverse fleet can take take on a sizeable Borg armada and come out victorious.

A couple of things I've noticed so far. When the Borg titan explodes, if it is partially constructed, the outline of the ship remains visible even though the construction yard has been destroyed. The random events are deadly for the normal AI. Basically they all got wiped out by a mixture of different random events.

Thanks for all your efforts, this mod is fantastic.

Thanks for the hard work again and adding even more content. The new Borg random event could be fun!!

Are there any plans for adding more random events? I have a few ideas to throw into the mix:

- Perhaps something with Q relocating fleets from one end of the map to the other.

- Temporal rifts would also be cool and may allow a way of adding some of the past or future ships into the game.

- The evil alternative universe ships.

I know that the engine is already at it's limits, but it would be great to see a few more events.

If it's in the reboot disaster of a universe then it will flop badly. I just wish that they would get back to the Next Gen era and start producing some decent shows again. The latest movies were cringeworthy and for me are Star Trek in title only. Star Trek has been asleep for far too long and I really hope they don't destroy it permanently.

What an excellent response. After reading, I now understand why they were not included. I think the mod is great. There are a couple of observations I've had from playing. The Romulans feel very over-powered. Lots of abilities and what feels like an unlimited supply of capitals. The Klingons always seem weak in comparison, which feels wrong. I would also love to set the cardassians to be dominion or union at start up when playing single player. Is this something that could be added?

For some reason you need to login to moddb and it will then allow you to download.

OrionSlaver, I and I'm sure many others appreciate your input on this forum. We are here because we love this mod. I can relate to the frustrations of the same questions being asked over and over. It would probably be beneficial for a big warning message on the downloads section which states that LAA needs applied before playing to stop people from posting the same question over and over. I simply don't understand why anyone would sign up for an account and post a support question without even looking at the install readme. Absolutely crazy. In terms of the conversation around ship types, I would really like to see the user guides completed as I often forget which ships do what especially if I haven't played in a while.

My understanding is that you can't build starbases in certain gravity wells. I.e. Shattered planet. This is by design as it wouldn't make sense to have a starbase near a planet with floating debris. I also think it makes defending these types of gravity well a bit more challenging and prevents players from fortifying key locations. It would be better though if the message was a bit clearer.

This looks amazing. Will only the Feds and Klingons be included or will the Romulans also be a playable faction? I can only ever remember seeing one warbird from this era so this would present a challenge.

Really enjoyed the first couple of single player games I've played so far. Playing as the Borg is so much better and it also feels balanced in that the Borg are overpowered, but take a long time to get going. That whale probe is crazy and was causing all sorts of problems. :-)

Is the chances of a whale probe higher than other events as it seems to appear a lot. Is the crystalline entity still included and what else should we be looking out for?

Playing on single player, my only real frustration is the AI's use of mines. They seem to just spam their systems which is a bit of pain. Perhaps Gul-Dukat could put together one of his tutorials for how best to deal with AI mines.

Thanks again for sharing such a fantastic mod.

Ok, thanks for the reply. I look forward to seeing what's been included.

I like your idea and perhaps it could be expanded to include an attacking event but instead of it being Unimatrix Zero. It could be Lore controlled Borg from the Descent TNG episode. Although that was an Assimilator vessel (I think) instead of a Cube.

Sorry to hear about Max. Hopefully he is back in action as soon as possible.

Would it be possible for the Devs to share the list of random events? I was hoping that a Borg incursion could be included as this would make things interesting in multiplayer games that don't include the Borg faction. Even if you are playing as the Borg, the Cube could be part of Unimatrix Zero and not controlled by the Collective. It would certainly make things interesting especially if the event happens early game.

Let's get behind this Mod and vote it into the top spot. It's time for the fans of this mod to give something back to the Dev team for all their hard work. Get voting and give these guys the recognition they deserve. This is without doubt the greatest RTS Star Trek game ever developed. Truly worthy of the Armada 3 title.

ETS2 is a popular game so it doesn't surprise me that it's getting a few votes. Playing that game in VR with the Oculus is crazy. Speaking of the Oculus I would love to play Armada 3 in VR that would be amazing. Have any of the Devs tried the Oculus and if so would they consider creating a VR version of Sins?

This mod fully deserves to be awarded mod of the year and has my vote. Good luck guys I hope you win it.

I don't think it would look that bad. One of the abilities on the ship could be to split into four smaller cubes. They don't have to be the standard size cubes as these would be overpowered in any case. The fusion design is one of the things that looked cool in Armada 2. Im pretty sure the modellers on here would do an amazing job in creating an Armada 3 version of the fusion.

I would love to see a fusion cube added as an alternate dreadnought for the Borg. I know that this has been posted before and the reasons are that it would be too big for the gravity wells, but even a cut down sized version of the fusion cube would be amazing and feel more like Armada. It would be great to have a choice of dreadnoughts for all factions to suit the player's style. i.e. Slow with strong defences or fast with weaker defences.

Can one of the devs share some details about Project [Redacted]?

Thanks for another great Dev diary. I'm sorry to hear that this will be the last expansion for Armada 3. Will you guys consider doing another Sins mod for another generation of the Star Trek universe? Perhaps from the original series or maybe even at a push the Star Trek Enterprise timeline.

Yeah, I know what you mean but playing as the Borg and stealing the AI capitals would be fun.

I love the changes especially the assimilation of the ships. It's fantastic. I would really like the ability to assimilate capital ships but I understand why this has been excluded. I would love to see something included that would let you assimilate a capital but perhaps there could be a limit of one or two max. I don't know if that's possible. I see the Borg as purely a capital ship based faction and not a race that travel around in large fleets. Looking at the series, the only time you see a fleet of Borg ships is when they were fighting species 8472 and that was all cubes. I would prefer to see the AI use the same approach with low numbers of non-capital ships. In version 1.0, it feels like the AI builds far too many smaller ships.

On a separate note, is there any plans to have Q in the game? Perhaps he could randomly drag one of your ships into a hostile or unknown territory. I know a lot of people have also asked for the Constitution class to be included and I agree with it being out of the time period but perhaps a random event could have either past or future ships appear from the alternate universe and cause havoc. Again just an idea and I don't know if it's practical.

Really looking forward to the next release. First class efforts from the Dev team as always.