I do have a question how can one change the stock campaigns for star trek armada 2? As I've acquired more ships and stations, especially for the Federation. Some of the missions maps have become too small. And I'd like to change their objectives a little.
Changing the Stock Campaigns
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First of all, since this not really related to what Rifraf asked, I'm going to move your post and the response to a new thread. Don't be afraid to open a new thread for your questions, we mods don't bite. 
Yes and no. You can edit the maps and the mission techtrees to add new ships/stations to the campaign. Be careful with the maps because the mission coding relies on the paths and ship/station labels, and if you mess them up the mission probably will crash.
As for the objectives, they are basically hardcoded. What you can do AFAIK is take these above mentioned labels in the map and assign those to new paths or ships/stations. I don't actually know how far you can take that, would be interesting to find out. Some people were experimenting with that way back in the day I think.
Note that there is a toolkit that allows you to write entirely new missions - it's called Megadroid's Mission Mod (MMM). However, it requires you to know Lua. I've tinkered with it a bit, but it takes some work to build actual stock-style single player missions.
Hope that helps. If you have any question about the above, do not hesitate to ask!
Yes and no. You can edit the maps and the mission techtrees to add new ships/stations to the campaign. Be careful with the maps because the mission coding relies on the paths and ship/station labels, and if you mess them up the mission probably will crash.
As for the objectives, they are basically hardcoded. What you can do AFAIK is take these above mentioned labels in the map and assign those to new paths or ships/stations. I don't actually know how far you can take that, would be interesting to find out. Some people were experimenting with that way back in the day I think.
Note that there is a toolkit that allows you to write entirely new missions - it's called Megadroid's Mission Mod (MMM). However, it requires you to know Lua. I've tinkered with it a bit, but it takes some work to build actual stock-style single player missions.
Hope that helps. If you have any question about the above, do not hesitate to ask!
Thanks for responding. And no problem I was looking through the threads on map mission and nothing was coming up. I was able to add ships and some stations for the missions through the AI. The biggest hurtle is the size of the map. Some of the maps are just too small for all of the ships I have in my inventory.
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You can edit the size of the mission maps in the map editor. I did this for my Upgrade Project 2014 mod and I just followed in the steps of the Improved Single Player Campaign mod and the original Upgrade Project mod.
I didn't increase size by any large amount mind you, there appear to have been no issues in doing so as far as the pathing and missions work like Terra mentioned above. You could try making one of the mission maps 25% or 50% bigger and see what happens?
I didn't increase size by any large amount mind you, there appear to have been no issues in doing so as far as the pathing and missions work like Terra mentioned above. You could try making one of the mission maps 25% or 50% bigger and see what happens?
Thank you it only took me a few years to figure it out. lolGood to hear that you were successful!