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Fleet Operations Version 3.0.6 - Armada II Total Conversion
Copyright (C) 2003-2009 Fleet Operations Development Team
http://www.fleetops.net
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1. Introduction
2. Features
3. Changelog
4. FAQ
5. Additional Credits
6. Contact Information
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1. Introduction
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Fleet Operations is a popular multiplayer orientated modification for
Activision's Star Trek Armada II. The project target was not only to create a
simple "modification" but trying to make Armada II a worth successor to the
second best selling Star Trek game Star Trek: Armada (behind Interplay's
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary by a small, but fair margin).

As Armada II is much different from what everybody thought the successor of
Armada I should be, we started to change the philosophy of the game. The
objective of our mod is to bring the game back to the Star Trek root.
We do not believe in the sense of creating big fleets within seconds and battles
based on the pure number of materials. We do not see benefits of an unbalanced
weight between the races. Our mod is based on the conviction that each ship
should have its defined task and does not loose its importance during the game.
We designed each ship new with more realistic textures. Each race has its single
new designed techtree. We introduced a credit system that gives you the
possibility to create a certain number of race specific special ships.
We designed new surroundings for the maps, more realistic asteriod fields,
more animated star maps to increase perception of the game.

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2. Features
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Key features of the current Release

- 5 races including Federation, Klingon, Borg, Romulan and Dominion
- Each race features 2 Avatars supporting your preferred tactic
- Over 200 brand new ship and station models
- All new multiplayer maps in realistic environments
- Long-lasting battles with tons of new weapons and sound effects
- Ship experience and level-up system
- Completly reworked Artificial Intelligence
- Dynamic Game User Interface
- Reworked balance system
- New Soundtracks (Multimedia Pack)
- Installs right off your Armada II CD - no pre-installation required
- Latest Armada II Patch included - based on Star Trek Armada II Patch 1.2
Project
- Widescreen, enhanced multi-monitoring and build-in multisampling support
- Windows Vista UAC compliant
- Integrated Map Manager
- and much more....

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3. Changelog
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Version 3.0.6 20th May 2009
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Additions
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- Veteran Ranks for all your vessels! Check www.fleetops.net for details!
- Improved Borg vessel construction: A new build-menu allows you to select
your modules on one screen and to preview the final vessels without
spending resources
- Reduced game loading times
- An new upgrade has been added to all repair-capable shipyards allowing
them to be used by allied players as repair-stations
- A complete new Klingon Imperial Yard model
- Added hints to the game loading screen
- The Ambassador is ready to support Federation players via Warp-In
- System Value does now also give a unit resistences against subsystem failure.
Higher System Values reduce both the duration and the chance to be affected
by a subsystem disabling effect
- The Borg Detector popular from Armada 1 has been added as a new Borg scout

Changes
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- General
- Vessels do not automatically open fire on enemy targets that an allied
player is beaming to anymore
- Double-clicking units now does select units of the same type regardless of
their rank
- Selectable teamcolors have been changed to get a wider variety
- Vessel Team/Race affiliation badge behavior improved for combat
- Improved AI vessel handling and cloaking behavior
- All Races
- Slightly redone technology-tree formulas, causing smaller cost changes on
nearly all vessels
- The firing arc of vessels has now greater influence on their construction
costs
- Starbase weapon upgrades will now add new weapons instead of improving the
existing ones, including a multitarget weapon
- Either reduced the costs or increased the attributes on all stationary
defense structures. They cost supplies to be build now
- Many special weapons that disable subsystems work different now or have
adjusted energy costs or durations
- Many special weapons that deal damage have now adjusted damage values
or energy costs
- Many special weapons that deal area damage do now split their damage
across all possible targets. Those changes are noted in the specific
tooltips
- Federation
- Descent Class cooldown for Shield Reset decreased to 300 seconds (bf.: 360)
- Quantum Torpedoes will now always fire volleys instead of single torpedoes
- Blockade Breaker (Miranda II Class) special energy costs increased and
duration reduced to 20 seconds (bf.: 30)
- Precise Volley (Remore Class) changed to deal shield damage (bf.: disabling
the shield subsystem). Cooldown removed
- Critical Shot (Defiant Class) now deals additional damage
- Admiral Mayson's Canaveral Class gains now the same bonuses from ranking
up as all other Canaverals
- Saber Class vessels gain higher overall attributes when ranking up to
keep in line with other starting vessels
- Nebula Class vessels gain higher Defensive Values when ranking up
- Hypercharge Magnan Emitter (Phalanx Class) effectiviness increased
- Type 3 Torpedoes (Galaxy Class) may now miss, but lowered the shield
regeneration rate reduction
- Warp-In limit increased to 10 slots (bf.: 9)
- ACS-Torpedo (Excelsior-II Class Admiral Mayson) damage reduced
- Tricobalt Torpedo (Intrepid Class) damage reduced slightly
- Proximity Torpedo (Monsoon Class) damage reduced
- Torpedo Barrage (Akira Class Officer ability) damage greatly increased
and deals direct hull damage on officer rank 2
- Borg
- Directive: Assimilate does now also increase the Defensive Value for
Pyramids and Assimilators by 20
- Directive: Optimize does now reduce the costs of selecting a Borg
chassis by 30 percent instead of reducing the costs of the first module
installed
- Borg Sensor Relay sensorrange reduced
- The Nanites Collective Feature consumes two slots now and the Uni-Complex
Collective Feature one slot. They switched places
- The Transwarp Feature consumes three slots now and the Perfect Logistics
Collective Feature four slots. They switched places. Perfect Logisticst
changed to unlock a Resource Assimilator upgrade
- Sensor Relays no longer count towards the victory condition and are
placed more carefully by AI players
- Datamining sensorrange bonus lowered to 30 percent
- Devestating Attack now deals high shield damage (bf.: disabling shield
subsystem). Cooldown removed
- Regeneration Modules do now grant the vessel a chance to completely resist
subsystem failure caused by special weapons and the like. Each
Regeneration Module installed increases the chance to resist
- Collective Uplink Defensive Value greatly increased
- Borg Probe sensor range reduced and requires the Conduction Matrix now
to be built. System Value and construction costs reduced
- Romulan
- General Mijural now increases the Offensive and Defensive value of all
Warbirds by 3 (bf.: 4)
- Romulan vessels do now fire faster when opening combat. The rate of fire
drops after each shot. If a vessel stays out of combat for 15 seconds the
effect is refreshed. Does not apply to the quadcobalt torpedo
- The Fakairu Class may now also use the Stationary Cloak special ability
once a Cloaking Generator is present
- Stationary Cloak special energy costs reduced to 10 per second (bf.: 15)
- Griffin Class (General Helev) base attributes increased to 25 Offensive
Value, 21 Defensive Value and 14 System Value (bf.: 20 / 16 / 11).
Costs increased
- Sensor Jammer (Griffin Class) has now a chance to fail, but duration has
been increased to 6 seconds (bf.: 3 seconds) and there is a chance that
weaponsystems will be disabled. The Grifin Class officer ability will
eliminate the chance of the Sensor Jammer to fail
- Reduces the energy costs of the Sleer Agent and Saboteur Agent special
abilities (Intelligence Center)
- The Rhienn Class Torpedo Refit officer ability Infiltrate has been changed
to have a certain chance to disable a stations weapons with a fixed period
of a few seconds (bf.: fixed chance with a variable duration)
- The Generix Class Support Refit officer ability Plasma Storage duration
bonus increased to 2/4 seconds (bf.: 1/2)
- Vector Torpedo (Rhienn Class Torpedo Refit) range increased to artillery
range (bf.: medium) and special energy costs increased
- Cehlaer Class (General Mijural) base attributes reduced to 37 Offensive
Value, 31 Defensive Value and 19 System Value (bf.: 39 / 33 / 21).
Costs greatly reduced
- The Tavara Class officer ability Modularization now increases the attribute
bonuses from upgrades by 20/40 percent (bf.: granted free offensive and
defensive upgrades)
- Dominion
- Reduced dilithium and tritanium costs for all vessels
- The C-17 Siege Cruiser gains higher System Values while ranking up. Base
attributes changed to 38 Offensive Value, 30 Defensive Value and 22 System
Value (bf.: 26 / 20 / 32). Costs increased
- Phaseshield (C-17 Siege Cruiser) special energy costs reduced to 345
(bf.: 432) and duration reduced to 8 seconds (bf.: 10)
- Perimeter AT-Charges damage increased
- Excessive Strike (V-13 Battleship) changed to deal high hull damage
(bf.: disabling shield subsystem and dealt normal damage)
- Dampening Missile (Breen Battleship) now deals additional shield damage
and may disable up to two subsystems
- Breen Cruisers and Battleships are now armed with special Breen Torpedoes
- Breen Battleship officer ability Breen Technology has now a chance to
disable subsystems per shot for a longer duration, but no longer drains
special weapon energy
- A-20 Attack Destroyer base attributes increased to 14 Offensive Value,
11 Defensive Value (bf.: 13 / 10). Costs increased. Collision damage
increased and changed to direct hull damage
- A-26 Bomber base attributes increased to 21 Offensive Value, 15 Defensive
Value (bf.: 20 / 14). Costs increased
- The S-2 Escort Cruiser gains higher Offensive and Defensive Values while
ranking up, but no longer gains System Value. Base attributes increased to
25 Offensive Value, 18 Defensive Value and 10 System Value
(bf.: 22 / 16 / 9). Costs increased
- Adjusted the costs of Breen research to be in line with other
Dominion upgrades
- The Mixed-Tech EM Blast (Federation) engine shutdown duration reduced
to 3 seconds (bf.: 12)
- The C-17 Siege Cruiser officer ability Bombardement Loadout now increases
the damage of the Tetrion Disruptor by 10 / 20 percent (bf.: 30/60)
- Tetrion Photon Torpedo (A-26 Bomber) damage reduced
- Cascade Feedback (C-11 Interception Destroyer) has now a chance to drain
special weapon energy
- Borg and Klingon Mixed-Tech Dreadnoughts are now equipped with additional
torpedo launchers instead of beam weapons
- The T-15 Heavy Cruiser Officer Ability Impulse Implosion deals highly
increased damage
- Klingon
- Klingon pulse disruptors do now fire bursts of multiple shots. Each shot
can hit or miss seperately
- Weapon Overload (Negh'var Class) torpedo cooldown increased to 30 seconds
(bf.: 6) and weaponrange increased to long (bf.: medium)
- Alternative Ammunition (Veqlaragh Class) torpedoes may now miss
- The K'Vort Class officer ability Verteron Particle Loads has been changed
to have a certain chance to disable engines with a fixed period of 4
seconds (bf.: fixed chance with a variable duration)
- Polaron Torpedo (Vorcha Class) now deals additional direct hull damage
- Compound Torpedoes (Sang Class) may now miss and no longer targets cloaked
vessels but deal increased damage
- The Mixed-Tech Sang' Class (Romulan) now improves the compound torpedoes
and gains multi targeting, but no longer always hits
- Torpedo Drone and Heavy Disruptor (K'beajQ Class) damage reduced
- Last Ditch Assault (SuS'a'Class) positive effect duration increased to
35 seconds (bf.: 25)
- K'beajQ Class base attributes increased to 19 Offensive Value, 19 Defensive
Value and 7 System Value (bf.: 13 / 13 / 5). Costs increased
- K'Vort Class base attributes increased to 23 Offensive Value, 20 Defensive
Value and 8 System Value (bf.: 20 / 18 / 7). Costs increased
- Vutpa' Class base attributes increased to 34 Offensive Value, 25 Defensive
Value and 11 System Value (bf.: 32 / 23 / 10). Costs increased

Fixes
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- Rankup sound is not played with maximum sound volume anymore
- Map Editor: Map Type is now saved correctly
- Manual IP connections should now work properly again
- Savegames did unintentionally appear in the map selection
- Fixed a rare crash when starting a game or loading a map for editing
- A leaving player in multiplayer games could cause the game to crash for the
remaining participants
- Fixed a rare crash that occurred right after launching the game executable
on some systems
- Fixed Borg Sensor Relay explosions
- Supply buttons visibility in free tech mode corrected
- Ship selection shouldn't "shuffle" anymore when a ship in a group gains a
new rank
- Fixed Warp-In handler that should prevent warp-in vessels from sometimes
being not command-able
- Fixed a possible crash when a race other than Federation was using the
Starfleet Command Warp-In
- Gameplay
- Cloaked vessels gaining a new rank don't lose their cloaked state anymore
- Romulan Sleeper Agent special ability is no longer able to infiltrate
objects unrelated to gameplay
- TaQ´rojas B'rel Class offensive value bonus is now correctly applied
at ranked-up B'rels
- Federation Plasma Bolts (Canaveral Class Mixed Tech: Romulan) do now last
the correct duration as mentioned in the tooltip
- Qaw'Duj Class vessels are no longer built in an invalid officer rank and
gain experience correctly
- Mixed-Tech Sang' Class vessels (Borg) no longer switch to long range
when ranking up
- Mixed-Tech Cho'naQ Class vessels (Dominion) are now artillery range
as stated by the tooltip
- Mixed-Tech Defiant Class vessels (Klingon) now stick to their rapid pulse
phaser even while ranking up and all Defiant Mixed-Tech variants will
increase their quantum torpedo damage on max officer rank correctly
- Fixed a bug causing the Defiant to get invalid stats in certain situations
- Mixed-Tech Rhienn Class vessels (Klingon) rank up now correctly
- D'deridex Class warbirds gain the correct attributes while ranking up
- It is no longer possible to build more then one Intelligence Center or
Cloaking Generator under certain conditions
- The Breen Battleship no longer incorrectly gains the Breen Cruiser officer
ability when ranking up (increased shield regeneration rate)
- Most vessels with quantity limitations, including veteran vessels, can no
longer be transfered to friendly players. You may transfer some ships like
repair vessels or carriers, but the receiving player has to meet the
limitation requirements
- Refined Disruptor (Vor'cha Class Mixed Tech (Federation)) deals now
correct damage
- The Mixed Tech NoQ'Duj Class (Dominion) gains correct speed and sensorrange
- Dominion Cascade Feedback deals damage as intended now
- Dominion Active Tachyon Scan works as intended now and costs
proper special energy
- Repair vessels will no longer incorrectly target hostiles with repair beams
- Romulan Multi Purpose Weapons consume correct amounts of energy now
- Romulan Vector Torpedo is now correctly affected by damage reduction
effects
- Fixed a bug causing many incorrect hull repair rates
- Corrected the Federation Class Mixed-Tech (Borg) Intrepid Class attributes
- Tooltips
- Corrected several spelling and formating errors
- Klingon Heavy Disruptor and Torpedo Drone research no longer incorrectly
states to apply to the K't'inga Class
- Admiral Risners avatar bonus is now correctly displayed in the Avalon
Class tooltip
- Galaxy Class vessels will show their correct attributes if Type-3
Torpedoes are active and the Galaxy ranked up
- Combat Cloak (Generix Class Specter Refit) will now show the correct
energy costs
- The Mixed-Tech Leahval Class (Federation) tooltip shows the correct
weapons on officer ranks now
- Corrected the spelling of Tachyon and Tetryon particles