[Atrocities]

Originally posted by DeadZone:
I do agree about the Sovereign, it is like the Defiant in basis of technology

Unfortunetly SEIV does not allow for this.

Originally posted by DeadZone:

So perhaps having a sovereign mount that would allow them few extra weapons which would do a bit more damage would give the proper feel

To many mounts complicate the game. I already hate the current mount system. But it could be done I guess, but it would have to be done for ALL races.

Originally posted by DeadZone:

Also, Atrocities, in the end will you be making it so ships come by age of design of the series?
Ie. The final three ships would be Defiant, Sovereign and Galaxy - X, and also IIRC the Akira (which you have as a cruiser) was designed and built after the Galaxy and Nebula (seeing as a Galaxy was used for scientific, exploration and dipolmacy mainly and the Nebula was mainly a science vessel)

No, the ships are in the order they are in. This is a TNG era race. SEIV does not allow for progressive ship scaling system like this. The ships come in the order they are placed in the Vehcile text file and the AI will always use the larger design. Also human players would have so many ships to choose from that it would be completely confusing. Additionally I would have to do this for EACH race, and I am not about to do that. I would have to design many new ships, and I really am not that interested in the mod any more to partake an endevour of that magnatude. Good idea though, and yes it was considered at one point and deemed unworkable.

Originally posted by DeadZone:

Now it is very easy to make it throw out ships with their proper class names and too appear in the right order and keep the balance. But its something that will take time

If you can get the AI to do this, then great, the only way I have been able to do it is by naming the Class in the vehicle Size file. Then every ship produced under that class is a Galaxy class ship, and you will have to rename it. (NOTE: There is discussion on doing this for STM 2.0 as the new patch will support this far better than the current game.)

Originally posted by DeadZone:

NOW if you really want, seeing as I do know quite abit about ST Ships, I could do a VehicleSize.txt with as many ships for the main races within a set timeline. ie. everything from TNG to Nemesis, and inc. at least one "futuristic vessel" for balancing issues against the Borg (Fed - Galaxy-X, Rom - Reman Warbird, etc...)

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Any help is appreciated. Remember, the sized have already been worked, reworked, re-reworked, and re-re-reworked many times. I cannot garantee that your design of the file will be used, but if it is better than the current one, it just might be used either in whole or in part.

FOR EVERYONE

This mod means a lot to a lot of players, and I do sincerely appreciate the bug reports, tweak suggestions, ideas, and improvements suggestion and materials that you all have been kind enough to provide over the Last 8 or so months.

The mod is now fixed in place, no major changes can be made to the structure of the mod. The reason for this is clear with the Last patch, it busted saved games and that was not appreciated by many.

We are working on an update STM v2.0 that I hope will address a lot of issues and suggestion as well as balance and game play items.

In the mean time, please enjoy the current mod, and please continue to post or email me about ideas, bugs, or whatever. You do not know how much your words have helped this mods.