Looks nice!!! Very nice!

Perhaps today is a good day to die!

*yay worf*

On an uber random side note, WHERE ARE MY SMILIES!?!??!

I recommend the Borg ship used by Lore in TNG, and either the Advanced Sphere (the giant one) or the Diamond.

For frigates, I would do mainly heavily modified models of Delta Quadrant ships.

I personally prefer the Armada I and II ships, but the Cube from Legacy wasn't so bad as an alternate version (possibly your command cube).

I like the idea of more 24th century ships, especially the Norway class, but leave in some TMP ships (there should be room anyway).

Last note, the Borg Capital ships should use more command, use more supply, and cost more than normal capital ships, since the only capital ships that would probably dent a Borg Cube on its own would be the Dominion Battleship.

By the way, the mod sounds great.  Ships look good so far.

It would be nice yes to have more later 24th century ships how ever looking at how it works we can just add those on to the game with out removing any of the current ones ^^, as from what i have learnt in helping on the stargate mod (of which i am still doing) is you can have all of those spaces filled so good chance we dont have to remove anything. I do like Major Stresses  mod, which is why i decided to do this .

do you mean this ship ?

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/startrek/images/thumb/6/62/Borg_assimilator_2.jpg/220px-Borg_assimilator_2.jpg

if you do i plan to add that in as a cruiser now

yes they do use more command pushing 250, supply not sorted that yet and cost well its like 15,000 8000, 8000 and it takes around 2min to make but its well worth it

Once the borg are done i prolly will consider adding 8472 aswell.

mm yea i know what u mean Mstress, i am trying to keep them as OMGWTF borg !!! (while trying to keep at as balanced as possible) rather than oh look  a borg cube "sends 5 ships or whatever and wins"

yea ill stress that people had better not bug you when i release it

I think the "funky ships" should stay, because most of the game will be played as the smaller vessels until you have enought resource income to support the large cubes, but considering the power of the cube the cost should be so extreme that you will only be able to build them very late game if at all. Having many cheap ships early on helps to balance them with other races which have a good selection of early ships. The real weak point of the borg should be the middle ground, they have the biggest capital ships, plenty of small cheap ships for any role, but for heavy cruiser and light capital they don't really have much to fill those roles, meaning they can get a foot hold early game, but they will struggle mid game, but they can become god-like only if they make it to the cubes. Plus the cubes should require very expensive researches before they can be constructed.

Assimilation should be a part of the borg, but with its current 100% rate and no damage requirements for the enemy, it would make them way too powerful. I don't believe there is any way to create a success rate or require the target to have taken alot of damage.

The picture of the assimilator is the armada 2 version, I think the armada 1 version of the ship looks nicer.

yea i plan for the player to research cubes etc before u can  build them

so you would like research a cube before u can get tactical cube n command cube or w/e and ofc the first ship is still free atm

currently 1 Borg cube can take down a pirate base with all its ships and defences with ease it lost about 50% of its health though (even if it did assimilate the pirate base in 1 second lol, it still had the ships and defences to deal with)

I don’t think there is a way i can make the assimilation ability of the Borg vessels dependant upon if the ship has shields or not, but the ability has like a 2min cool down. But if i remember correctly didn’t a Borg just "beam" over to the enterprise when it had its shields up anyway?

I am still working on a way to delay the capture of the ship and planet and give it a % of successes, as its a little stupid atm Borg cube arrives and assimilates the planet instantly lol. I  may keep the assimilation abilities to the capital ships.  <--- Ok well i sorted this just working on a way to make it obvious as to which ship is being assimilated currently the delay is at a default of 20 seconds but i can alter this as to what ship is doing the assimilation ^^, so more time for spheres or w.e. Still working on trying to figure out for it to work when the ship has no sheilds. (updated)

I am working on this practically on my own atm so it will be a while before i get around to doing the research tree

Ok well i have sorted the assimilation ability so now it works once the ship has taken some hull damage ^^ because of this i reduced the ship assimilation time to 12 seconds

just need to work now on a way to make the ships look assimilated, and try and fix up the planet assimilation one too

other side no tho

i allmost have got the Tactical cube sorted too so some pictures should follow tomorrow, had to do some texture hunting lol but have them now

and i buffed the borg cube somewhat, as i tested it yesterday it got owned by 30 mirandas lol so now its the otherway around the cube just manages to take out 35 miranda class ships if it starts at lv 1

a level 7 cube can take on around 20 galaxy class ships and just about win

With the extreme increase in power per level, for balance I would suggest that the cubes require alot of experience to level up. I don't mind the idea that lvl.1 cubes are not godly, but due to their extreme health they should be easier than most ships to get to levels, so at lvl.10 then they could become the extreme fleet killers. But also the cubes cost and build time should be so high that the player can't afford to loss them.

For the assimilation ability, its still very powerful as it should be, but for balancing IMO it presents the largest challenge, but it would be nice if capital ships could be not be targeted and the cooldown was more like 30 seconds. You will still be able to pick off plenty of cruisers, but you can't just steal the entire enemy fleet.

Looks awesome, can't wait till both SoA2 & your addon are finished.

Some feedback on the diamond: perhaps it needs to be slightly more dark-green, so its on par with the cubes. Atm it looks a bit too greyish-brown to me. The model itself is great though.

yea i will alter the dimond texture soon, but just working on other ships atm

i shall be posting updated pictures soon on some more finished ships mainly the sphere coffin etc

once SoA 0.3 is out i shall work hard to get a demo out to you all  pretty shortly after it is released as all i will need to do is polish it up balance sort out some files etc

yes i will balence the borg out with the rest of the factions, but with that said the capital ships are just goin to be very powerfull especially if you manage to get them to lvl 10 and upgraded. But b ecause they are super powerfull fleet killers, you cant afford to lose them

Here are the Current Borg Cube Stats etc

basePrice
 credits 15000.000000
 metal 6590.000000
 crystal 5550.000000

slotCount 250.000000
BuildTime 305.000000

Hull
  25000.000000
Shield
  0.000000

Armor
 75.000000

AntiMatter
 825.000000

Weapon 1

ave dmg 333

weapon 2 (torps)

ave dmg 400

weapon 3

ave dmg 40

those are the stats of a level one cube, (i know they may mean nothing to you lol )

count me in as abeta tester if you want ... it seems that it is a nice mod you got there