Author: firewarrior1705

Hi! This is a Star Trek mod based upon the older Age of War mod(thank you Darkshimmer for letting me use your models and carry on your work). There are 7 playable races so far(Borg, Cardassians, Dominion, Klingons, Romulans, Federation and Species 8472), each with their different ships and weapons effects. A lot of things have changed, new ships have been added(and more are still to come), new weapon sounds and effects have been incorporated in order to give the mod a more "trek" feeling.

Credits:

Mod designed by Firewarrior1705

Maps by Darkthunder & Darkshimmer

Models and textures by DarkDrone, Darkthunder, Darkshimmer, Zorg and Phatboygeo

Weapons, systems, ships and effects coding by Firewarrior1705

Music by Ignus

Sound and graphic effects by Firewarrior1705

Missions by Firewarrior1705

Special thanks to:

- Darkshimmer(for allowing me to use his Age of War as a staging ground in developing this mod)
- The Old Dragon(for having helped me so much with this mod)
- DreamorCZ(for having answered some of my modding questions)
- Arpaso(for making the Nexus skirmisher)
- Phatboygeo(for his models)

Known bugs:
- Sometimes the phasers will get through the shield and damage the hull directly(I dunno why this happens)
- DS9, the Romulan starbase and the Federation Orbital starbase have no hardpoints atm, so their weapons will appear to be firing from the center of the model
- Some ships have their hardpoints turned inside and to make do for this their weapons have very high fire arcs. Therefore sometimes these weapons will appear to be firing through the ship's hull.
The Old Dragon has helped me correct this issue, however this requires the textures to be readded to the ships and I'm affraid I didn't had the time to do this for this release. If any of you wanna help with this pls email or pm me
- Some ships don't have icons(it takes time to make them and time is something I'm in short supply. Again any help would be most welcome)
- The Kvort and Hutet sizes are a bit off. Will be corrected in the next release

Toggling between SP and MP:

In the mod folder there's a folder called universe. Inside this folder there are 2 ms-dos batch files called singleplayer and multiplayer. Whenever you wanna select a game mod, all you have to do is double click on the batch file you'd like to turn on. When you fire up Nexus, the game type should change automatically

Gameplay suggestions:

Be aware that this mod is Star Trek balanced as much as possible so if you don't know much about ST and the strenght of the ships, you'll need a bit of time to get used to them. Pls note that there are a few ships very powerfull(the borg cubes, the Hutet, the Sovereign, the Defiant) and others that are weaker(brel, dominion attackfighter, nova).

Shields in this mod will recharge slower than in Nexus for balance issues and cannon corelation(in ST shileds don't recharge too fast) so I recomend you turn the shields to 200% before you go into a battle. I also recomend using the attack pattern delta command to maximize the effect your ship has on the battlefield. However this command should only be used after a drain shield or destroy hull command has been issued, otherwise the ship won't fire.

If you want to create your own missions using the skirmisher, the number of your mission MUST be above 20 for SP and above 10 for MP. Otherwise your mission will overwrite an existing one and cause a game crashing error when you fire up the game.

Permissions:
- you are allowed to make custom missions and improove the AI(I'm not much of an AI coder and if you'd like to help making a better and harder AI pls tell me)
- for all the others you'll need my permission

If any of you have models of star trek ships that you'd like to see in the mod, pls pm or email me and I'll see if I can get them into the mod.

Contact:
- you can contact me via pm or email at firewarrior1705@yahoo.com

Don't forget to report all the bugs you find!

All the best and enjoy the mod!