looks awesome

question about "cloaking" :

so other factions will still see the cloaked ships but cant fire on them like the mines ? unless they have a "de-cloak-ship" with them?

I agree on the no bird beaks, thing.

Instead, I think It should look something like an eagle's roost, or at least have elements of where they are often found. give it a look similar to a cliff, sharp angles, docks on an underside, probably weapons emplacements on the high edges.

Actually, it didn't decloak, if I remember correctly, Data fire a torpedo to show that is is there, but it didn't decloak

i gotta say i have been into star trek since my uncle took me to see search for spock and so i grew up with the movies first and tng/ds9 2nd(i don't mention voyager or enterprise cause...c'mon...really?)and i gotta say imo the soveirgn class is the best looking ship design they have had.but then i love the defiant's design as well which many people hate on.i love that it looks so vastly different from the rest of the other models.and i dunno...something about both ship designs says major advancement technologically.that's the only thing i liked about voyager...i dug the ship.show was pants.

Or you could have the stations detect cloaked ships...

Many options will be considered for the cloak. Understand cloak will be a WiP. So dont expect it to be "perfect" when 0.4E hits the web. We are going to try the drain antimatter option first, and see how that goes. The lump sum option does have merit, and we will consider that if the over time drain doesnt work out like we plan. The most important thing is we do NOT want cloak to stay on constantly, because it will be abused beyond belief. If i can think it someone else will do it. It would be pretty annoying if someone just sat cloaked in your grav well taunting you, and you couldnt do anything about it (unless you had a de-cloaker). Lets see how this works out before we make structures able to de-cloak ships. The Sins AI still does some very stupid things no matter how much you micro. Like make b-lines for the nearest asteroid, or building only to get stuck. With dynamic movement they now make b-lines for the planet only to get stuck :/

The drain over time option uses quite a bit of AM. Plus it ensures someone doesnt cloak then sit still in a grav well cloaked, because sooner, or later the AM will run dry, and he is forced to de-cloak. This means attacks will have to be timed, and managed very carefully. I also want to avoid the decloak, shoot, re-cloak.. rinse and repeat till ship/structure is dead without chance to retaliate.

For the Romulans i picture this scenario. Just before an attack fleet cloaks, then jumps they arrive in Feds grav well. Feds say "oh shit! Romulans are here, and we cant get a lock". Feds spearhead a decloaker if they have one, and pick off the few ships it can decloak. Rommies de-cloak, and chaos begins.

For the Klingons i picture this.. The Klingon cloak is not as advanced as the Romulan cloak. Klingon cloak will use more AM than a Romulan cloak. Not all klingon ships will have cloak. Klingons usually decloak to herald an attack as soon as they arrive in a grav well. If they even cloak at all before the battle. They think sneak attacks are a dishonorable tactic. However they will cloak to disengage, and retreat from a battle going very wrong. How you use the cloak it is up to you.

IMO the series and movies broke their own rules (which were being made up as they went along) with the Klingons. For example Chang's fire while cloaked B'rel... OK. ANY Klingon Warrior with a sense of Honor wouldnt even board that ship let alone fight in it. Did Chang like Duras have no honor? We know he went rogue, but he fought like a Romulan free from retribution hidden in the shadows. That is not the Klingon way. A true warrior would have shown himself, and if the battle went badly there is no dishonor in retreat as long as it serves a greater purpose.

Very true.  Also, don't forget Worf's explanation of Klingon cloaking strategies in Way of the Warrior.  Referring to Klingon ships laying in wait near ship wreckage should any enemies come seeking survivors, he says that nothing is more honorable in war than victory.  Perhaps it all begins to change with Martok as High Chancelor, but I suspect that, for the Klingons of the late 24th century at least, Honor is more of an ends justify the means kind of thing so long as battle is involved. 

I get mini dumps aswell still good WIP though. Anyways why would you continuisly switch mod support from expansion to expansion? The mod will not reach full potentional until Stardock finishes with expansions if you continue to switch like this. Just leave it on Entrenchment or whichever expansion you want

The Romulan SB looks fantastic, although a bit small.

i know the warbird is a massive ship, but Federation SB's could encompass a ship as large as a warbird entirely within itself (depending from which angle you look at the door from i guess, but still)

i know it looks really cool, but it looks to me like its sized more like an outpost or Forward Command Center than a full blown starbase...

also, im sure its not possible, but to see a ship dock with a structure in Sins would be FREAKING FANTASTIC!!

Ok, well...let me ask this; does anyone know if the mini-dumps are the result of a problem with the modeling/meshes, or the scripting files?  If it is just a problem with the scripting files, I can probably replace them with the old scripting files and fix the dump.  I just wanted to get this going again, while I wait....

I love the look of that Romulans starbase.  I like to imagine a Romulan promenade (DS9-esque)

Also, as for Chang, I think his tactis fit who he is.  It was a very dishonerable way to fight, but he was such a dishonorable Klingon.  He colluded with rouge Romulan and Starfleet officers to assassinate the Chancellor he is supposed to serve!  He betrayed the Empire, and serving the Empire is the ultimate duty of a Klingon soldier

He might have looked Klingon, but he's got some green blood in him (metaphorically)

Remember the Next Generation episode with Spock???   Based on that I suppose a Romulan "Bad Guy" would probably be someone who supports re-unification with Vulcun.

since the romulans are basd on the roman republic i would say nobody (as a person). if you count institutions than the senate.