Can anyone remember when we used to be explorers? - Jean Luc Picard
A certain banned slacker has stopped being lazy and got his Tarellian Plague ability working. There should be an update for the weekend.
Some quality of life compatibility fixes for compatibility with the current version of Sins, along with strings, audio, and visual tweaks done by Myfist0 and NewHorizons back when someone got lazy and stopped updating things. Expanded functions for the Maquis and Talarian neutrals, and the Tarellian Starship random event, are additions that slacker finally finished up and got in working order.
It's going to be a super nasty plague that spreads through trade and infects orbiting starships, but it has short circuits for the AI so you don't find your game going to pot when it lets the thing spread across the whole map. Players that get the infection going will have to work around it or eventually wipe themselves out.
http://www.moddb.com/mods/sacrifice-of-angels-2/downloads/star-trek-sacrifice-of-angels-2-08r-full
Here's a little extra for SoA2R: SoA2R Large Fleets
It roughly increases fleet supply and elite command points by 50%.
Phenomenal work guys! thanks for the update!!
I present to you, the EU update...
https://www.moddb.com/mods/sacrifice-of-angels-2/downloads/soa2-0-8-1r
In other news, don't iron your clothes, while wearing them, upside down, in the bathtub.
New patch, this one being an actual patch for an actual bug, instead of a compatibility update for stucking fupid nagware requirements by politicians from other countries.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/sacrifice-of-angels-2/downloads/soa2-082r-update
Fixes a bug in neutral starbase functions.
Oops.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/sacrifice-of-angels-2/downloads/soa2-083r-update
Thanks for the updates!
Some questions about the Tarellian Plague:
1. Correct. It can indeed be a game over if ignored, provided you have trade vessels traveling everywhere in your empire, you will eventually eliminate yourself as a practical threat to the AI. The event is a disaster of epic proportions and an immediate quarantine of the affected planet is the only way to save your bacon.
2. Correct, so long as no trade vessels enter orbit, you have zero chance of spreading the infection. This means no throughput. Not just no trade stations in orbit.
3. Incorrect. The AI indeed cannot handle the function, and so there are AI only short circuits in the design that prevent them from being wiped out like a player would.
4. Correct. It's extremely slow moving. Any planet with substantial defenses should destroy it without intervention.
There should be a new update relatively soon, integrating the latest DLC.
Thanks for the answer!
Regarding 3: Does the AI get no penalties from it or does the AI wipe out the plague? What I am wondering is: what if I am trading with an AI and I see it get infected - will the trade ships spread it to me and only I suffer while the AI doesn't?
Latest DLC is Minor Factions, I thought that's already in SOA2 with the Neutral Factions. But it's two different features?
There is a remote chance of spread from an infected AI. Upon spread, it would impact you normally.
The AI has a get out of jail free card in that the setup doesn't cycle. The disease will progress normally on the infected planet, with small chances for the disease to spread to planets via trade ships that get infected as it grows, but the ship infections happen on the cycling of each stage. For the AI, those fire once, and only once. Infected trade ships might pass the disease on, but they're finite objects with a 900 second life after infection, and only a 5% transmission rate at each jump.
During implementation, I saw one to three planet infections in test runs to see how the AI would be impacted.
Minor factions are indeed different.
With the currently existing factions, you actually conquer them and take the planets, then you get the persistent starbase and can get access to features with tech upgrades.
Minor factions are instant acquisitions. Move an envoy into the well, and instantly gain the defensive position. They won't be coming in Tamarian and Son'a variants due to that ease. As such, they're generally less substantial threats. They'll give you some sort of useful tool, as well as a relatively cheap point of defense, with the low ceiling making it an ineffective bulwark in the late game compared to a fully maximized player owned planet.
Colonized Neutrals will be high end property that can yield a late game advantage by comparison.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/sacrifice-of-angels-2/downloads/star-trek-sacrifice-of-angels-2-09r-full-released
Moo. Ah. Ah...
Okay, so it's been a few months. Once Moddb authorizes the announcement, I'll post the link in the OP.
Just spent a lot of time playing Sacrifice of Angels in Trinity. Forgot about the bumper cars. I'm still fighting the good fight against the Borg. Really just as much fun as it ever was.
You are still my favorite mod.
backs out of the room slowly...
I have not been back to the Sins forums in years. Lost my faith when I was called a socialist. In retrospect I guess there are worse things to be called.
I'm so glad I stumbled in here just now. I had no idea you guys were going to do this.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
It was hard to watch something I love fading into that good night.
Now I don't have to.
new update in hand...
Trek is populated by space commies, so...
Have fun with the new update.
0.9.1R Patch released.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/sacrifice-of-angels-2/downloads/soa2-091r-update
Haven’t checked in, in years but great to see a new version! For reasons, my PC was in storage for awhile but after dusting it off and plugging it in everything works great. I just picked up SOA2 again, and can’t wait to try out the new stuff! Well, new atleast to me!
https://www.moddb.com/mods/sacrifice-of-angels-2/downloads/star-trek-sacrifie-of-angels-2-095r-full-released
Yeah, we're totally necroposting our thread at this point, but hey, new version up.
Just checking back in. I am having a ball with this. You did a good thing for the people of our planet.
Bring out yer Dead! (clangs bell).... Bring out yer Dead!..... (Clang). Monty Python reference for the clueless.
Wow! It's been a minute hasn't it. I haven't touched Sins in almost 10 years modding wise. I still play the hell out of it though. I don't think my rig can even run the old tools needed to mod her now lol. I don't know really i haven't tried. Been busy with HW3, and a possible Sins II thing. Just experimenting at this point. We'll see what happens.Good Job keeping SoA2 afloat!I usually hang out now on the Unreal, HW3, and Sins II discord modding channels.
MajorStress, Psychoak & Myfist0 : I have SinsII now that it's been launched on Steam.I'm still getting used to it (mainly UI & economy changes) and I haven't even started to look at modding yet.But I should be around to help a little *if* we decide on porting over to SinsII.Edit : There are some modding tools for SinsII athttps://github.com/IroncladGames/tools/
o Lord your still at it, (tips hat!) glad to see that!
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