Battlefield refit Add On - FILE IS OBSOLETE addon - Star Trek: Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

Balance does not mean all factions homogenized what so ever, in this case, I set several ship price points, and adjusted stats until their performance match that price point exactly.

If anything, more then the stock mod, factions should have stronger differences then before.

federation- capital ship labs are now tier 0, and capital ships are super easy to afford, drastically changing planetary development strategy, and putting your research tiers at list if you lose a capital ship, or several

romulans- can make a LOT more capital ships than anyone else, and now they are MUCH more affordable compared to cruisers

etc...

Oh wow! That sounds like a lot more changes than i was expecting! Awesome! Thanks again!

well it would be better to create a separte folder for it, just incase

Its not necessary to overwrite the Call to Arms mod, just unpack the Battlefield_refit_Add_On into a new folder in:

Documents\my games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Mods-Rebellion v1.82\*here comes the new folder*

Then activate it ingame and then you need to put the Battlefield_refit_Add_On at the top of the mod order in the mod menue ingame. Thats it.

no disrespect to fangoriously for his excellent work making this item, but it's supposed to be an ADD-ON, not a patch. Please rewrite it and upload it as an Addon. Your Addon isn't supposed to overwrite the 1.2 mod.

thank you :)

thats what the borg are supposed to do

What, 9/10 completely ruin games entirely? Yeah, okay, that's always loads of fun. Good 'reason'. The AI version of the borg is a little OTT.

Exactly what Alive said. That is what they are supposed to do. Though possible but improbable to solo them. they are meant to be fought as a team effort. A shall we say "Raid boss". They meant for all of the races that are at war at the moment to make a temporary truce or face assimilation. If you want to solo fine but what kind of a challenge would it be if it was made fair fighting borg. Quoting Q from Hide and Q "Fairness is a human concept. Think imaginatively! It will, in fact, be completely unfair..."

The Borg are supposed to be very powerful... Probably even more powerful than in the game. They were never really beaten conventionally, it was always sorta by chance - Data caused the Borg cube to self destruct in Best of Both Worlds, in First Contact the only thing that saved them was Picards unique knowledge... If you were to be true to the show, once they adapt, you can't really stop them.

those displayed numbers are misleading. they increase exponentially based on how many directions a particular weapon can fire in. in the falcon's case, it has a beam hardpoint in all 4 directions, and it can fire one every 4 seconds, thats the reason it's displayed damage is that high. say a ship with cannons can only fire them forward, that displayed number will be a lot less. even though it deals a lot more damage in 1 arc, it only can fire in 1 direction, so gets rated poorly.

don't worry about those numbers, every ship at every price point was painstakingly balanced against each other, its an even match for an akira and kvek.

the sovereign is slightly newer, but not even half the size of a galaxy, they aren't even in the same weight class, 1 doesn't replace the other, etc. the galaxy has much longer main phaser arrays, and the 2 highest capacity torp launchers ever mounted on a ship, its weapons are to a much higher scale. the sovereign is a very powerful ship for its size, but it was never more powerful, or capable in any measurable way than the galaxy. even the nebulas are more powerful then the sovereign.

the call in price and supply cost is much closers to correct than it was, they played it VERY safe on both in stock armada 3, i have it set to the price and supply cost thats about average of what you tend to get from them. the whole concept of the warp in is totally op though, 2 or 3 planets with a 6 or 7 of these, and an ubur economy with an outpost trade station in every gravity well, giving you unlimited money, could allow you to go from 0 ships to full supply over and over again, not even borg are a threat at that point. i don't think you can set a global limit on call in structures though, even though frankly, its needed.

part of why ships across faction share such exact price points, is because i wanted the ships at those prices to have the exact same performance, so i dueled each and every one of them endlessly until they were equals, and were correctly spaced in performance between the next lower and next high ship price point. this was made difficult, because most ships had vastly different armaments, mobility and hit-points from one another, i probably spent about 100 hours on this from january to april.

ya the bombers are actually sorta bugged, if you'll notice they can also ONLY attack structures too, even though they should not be limited to that. what sort of accidentally got released on here was basically the last beta version, that i hadn't had a chance to fully play test to find problems like this. in fixed form, they do about half as much structure damage, and can attack everything else again.

Thanks a million for all your hard word and passion it really shines through. I like the changes to the supply and the reduction to the call ins for just the reasons you explained. What I was curious about it needing say 90 or so supply for a flotilla that costs 30. Could be a mechanic that would limit the use of call ins late game.

Thanks again for all the great work. I love it!!

that does not surprise me, what got released was files that had not been converted back to bin from readable text, so it takes the computer longer to reference files that way, and in non top end computers, would surely lead to such laggyness from time to time.

like i have mentioned a few times, what got released was not the version i considered release ready. there's a few bugs i noticed in play testing, the 400+ files weren't converted back to bin, and it was packaged in such a way that it would merely over write 1.2.

once the next armada 3 patch is out, you can count on a re-release of this add-on, with compatibility worked out, and other issues fixed.

yep, i think the game plays much better when capital ships aren't seen as supremely more important, powerful exclusive and expensive than anything else. you really want to build them early, and often, trying to max out the cap ship crew cap before you build to many other ships.

in canon trek, a limited budget more than anything is what kept the non human factions so ship variety poor. i like to think that the ship line up in game is what the other factions would have if they had an unlimited amount of time and money to make the show.

in game, the deathrite basically serves in place of a more numerous vorcha we see in canon, which is again mainly becase the klingons only had 3 ship models + the more exclusive negvar they could film with.

That actually makes sense when you put it like that. Part of me wishes the shows could be done with today's cgi but I guess that they were able to get by with as much as they did is a testament to hollywood magic back then.

I actually like the deathrite bc of the vor'cha influences. Good model.

I had another question. It appears the K'Tinga has beam damage but that damage is set to zero. DS9 showed some K'Tingas with red forward beams in Way of the Warrior. Was this something you removed for the sub-mod?

Thank you for your mod. I am enjoying it. Has anyone else said that they feel like the Feds have to go straight to New Orleans or get steam rolled? The AI brings 30 plus to the party as soon as it can. No other way to beat the Borg either (of course that beats just dying to the Borg in the standard mod). I've also noticed that the AI does not seem to know what to do with the advanced Fed bombers and fighters.

ya thats because the bombers deal antimodual damage, and some engine limitation prevents them from targeting anything but structures even though in their file i set "target only structures" or whatever, to 0. there's a workaround for this in the next release.

i think some borg ships have structure armor type, thats why anti modual works well against it. hmm, that sounds way to exploity to me, im going to look into this.

Whoop!, is it up?

Thanks again for your unique vision of what A Call To Arms could be.

You've taken a beautiful diamond (yes, the Queens Diamond ;) ) and encrusted it with rubies and emeralds set in a platinum ring of wonder. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations there is no better example than your work sir.

Now if you'll excuse me I have Borg to hunt down.

Mildalcoholic said:
Great addon otherwise, I don't play STA3 without it :D

You are correct sir!

the addon was updated to be 1.2.1 compatable

The diplomacy problems? And the Borg have been making friends. Other AI are siding with them. Isn't that impossible as diplomacy is irrelevant? (according to the Borg)

will it be updated to work with 1.3? I hope so, it really added a new twist to the game

That is very nice of you. As per usual when someone has done something nice for me I repay them:

Here is a picture of a mouse eating cheese: :>#

Minimalist to be sure, but none the less, the work of a greatful man.

I take it Fangoriously isn't responding, pity

much appreciation