• Hello and welcome to MSFC. We are a small and close knitted community who specialises in modding the game Star Trek Armada 2 and the Fleet Operations modification, however we have an open field for discussing a number of topics including movies, real life events and everything in-between.

    Being such a close community, we do have some restrictions, including all users required to be registered before being able to post as well as all members requiring to have participated in the community for sometime before being able to download our modding files to name the main ones. This is done for both the protection of our members and to encourage new members to get involved with the community. We also require all new registrations to first be authorised by an Administrator and to also have an active and confirmed email account.

    We have a policy of fairness and a non harassment environment, with the staff quick to act on the rare occasion of when this policy is breached. Feel free to register and join our community.

How did you find MSFC?

Styer_Crisis

Zero APM Gamer, And i can still own you
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ME?!?! how did i find this place? quite simple actualy, Adm_zaxxon was resposible for my conversion...... the problem was i kept getting the random question wrong that was on the site application...... and its not like i didn't know the leonard nimoy played spock in star trek..... its just i couldn't spell his name......... i must have tried 50 times to register, AND I ALWAYS GOT IT WRONG........ tehn i ask our good friend Z here what the anser was..... and WADDA YA KNOW??? turns out Nimoy is spelled with an I, i think.... not an E, its not Leonard NEmoy, its NImoy..... lol so here i am....... abiet damaged, but here.
 

Rawks

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Kat said if I didn't join she would break my arm. I didn't want my arm broke, it was quite mean.

100% true to life story about how I found the site.
 

Hellkite

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LOL

That is our Katala the mistress of persuasion " See she is very effective at it "
 

Majestic

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Pride yourself on being a brute who feeds on the sorrow of others!

There is no end to your terror.

Thank your guardians for small miracles I'm married to her! :lol2: :angel:
 

Rawks

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Thank your guardians for small miracles I'm married to her! :lol2: :angel:

Its sad, because you are a good man, sacrificing yourself to save the rest.

Soon you will be consumed by her rage and there will be no stopping her!

*reaches over to the man sitting in the chair next to her and gives a slap*

...its begun...

:D
 

Hellkite

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Marriage what at beautiful war "I know it all to well" :lol:
 
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starblazerfan

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This thread is a very good one. I originally found this site when someone posted on Armada2files that he should upload his files here, since filefront is having hiccups.

My first reaction was huh? There is another website with starships up for download? So I checked it out and you have a lot of things going on so I thought, what the heck I usually don't join groups, because as Groucho Marx said, "I wouldn't want to be in any group that would have a guy like me in it," or something to that effect, but in this case lets try it out.
 

dvatreknerd314

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I found this site from it being mentioned in the read me for the Zero Hour Federation Docks hosted on FileFront
 

CABAL

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I posted on this thread once, but it was rather short.

I joined the H:FC team over at A2 Files and Dino suggested that I should come here, since we had our own forum section.

I feel like I can do better and be more interesting by telling the whole long and storied tale. By 'long and storied' I mean 'adequately summed up in a paragraph.' Though I think I'll start from the very beginning and go rather in-depth to pad it out a bit.

It was the year 19100. The Y2K bug turned out to have done absolutely nothing. My dad had gone to the store and came back with this Star Trek RTS that just came out. At nine years old, it was one of the cooler things I had laid eyes on. I didn't necessarily get out much. The game turned out to be a bit much for my pre-teen brain and I didn't play it much at the time. My dad preferred C&C and Warcraft II so it mostly stayed on the shelf for a few a while.

A few years later, I got my own computer, largely built with spare parts, and was looking to see which of our games I could run on it when I remembered that Armada thingy. I installed it on my computer (which I believe took about an hour) and gave it another shot. I was hooked. Hearing Patrick Stewart in a video game was still cool. After a while I became interested in how the game worked and found the Addon folder where I learned some very rudimentary modding. A little bit of Googling and I found the ODF pack. With that in hand I started to really look at what was possible.

My early efforts at modding eventually led me to Armada Fleet Command. Though I simply lurked at first, I also studied existing mods and Westworld's Big Book of Modding. Over time, I started to post and become involved. It was there that I met the likes of MrVulcan and Phantom, who seemed like Modding Gods to me. I fanboyed over Future Tense and probably made a fool of myself. In short, I was a noob. But I was learning and enjoying myself and that was good enough for me.

Eventually, I was pointed to Armada 2 Files. Though I downloaded from its vast library of files, I did not get a forum account at first. It was around this time that I really started to understand some of the intricacies of Armada and I became convinced that features that were supposed to be impossible simply needed a fresh look. Look I did, and I actually managed some of them. Burst firing weapons, firing flares for pulses and torpedoes, and even faction shielding were all worked out for A1 and the code posted on AFC's forum. However, actually implementing all of this was rather ridiculous; the Defiant alone had thirty six weapon entries to make them all work.

I started posting on A2Files one day and remember being intimidated by all these big name modders I had become familiar with from the downloads section. People like Jetfreak and Major A Payne (though you have to admit, that name is a little intimidating). I was pleasantly surprised to discover that these people were kind, willing to answer any questions I may have had, and hadn't let their reputations get to their heads. In time, I came to consider many of these people my friends. It probably helped that I had narrowly missed the worst of the Jetnova Incident. All was right with the world.

June 18, 2006, the beta for Fleet Ops v3 came out. Those who played it gave it glowing reviews. I distinctly remember somebody saying it was 'like dunking your face in liquid awesome.' I didn't have A2 at the time so I didn't pay it too much attention at first. But then something started to happen on the A2Files download section. The comments became a war zone as people started demanding FO compatibility and began down voting anything that wasn't for Fleet Ops. Comments were edited and deleted and FO fans began to leave the site in droves. For those who remained, the name 'Fleet Operations' left a bitter taste in their mouths. The Schism had begun.

Some time later, DinosaurJR started talking about this idea he had for a Halo mod. He had some models, but he needed coders, 2D artists, and et cetera. I applied as the GUI artist and wouldn't you know it, I made the cut. Probably had something to do with being the only person interested in the position. He suggested that I make an account at this place called MSFC as he had set up a sub forum there for the team so I did. Sadly, the mod fell through, but I have been here ever since.

After that, there were good times and bad and users came and went. Things like Maj getting hit by a car and the slow death of A2Files certainly were not highlights. However, something good did certainly happen. Slowly but surely, we started talking with the estranged community members who were on the other side of the Classic vs FO split. Like the Humans and Minbari, we reunited with the other half of our soul and stood as one for the first time in years. The Schism was over.

And now here I am, a moderator with the power to edit and delete your posts and approve or disapprove your uploads. God help us all.
 

Zelph

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I believe I found my way here because of Zaxxon. I'd been a lurker on the FleetOps forum for years - I still am I suppose - but I started posting on one of the threads for his BSG mod. I heard mention of MSFC there somehow, so I made a quick Google search and I've posted sporadically here ever since. Good stuff. :D
 

SciFiFan

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I met Majestic on A2Files. He helped me with some modeling techniques. He told me about the site and I have been here since.
 

Rifraf

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I started in the A2 community back in 2003 over at FF, but lurked and asked a few questions here and there never doing much. I ran across AFC many years later, but never joined. Just browsed its vast forum and read everything for ideas and such. I had run across MSFC sometime last year, but never joined either. Guess I have a commitment phobia. :) I think Cabal mentioned it to me after I joined the FO site a year or so ago so I finally joined here.

I think when I was younger I couldn't be bothered to join forums and such. I just wanted to play games and tinker with the modding aspect here and there. The downside is that I lost all those years in building relationships in the community with who I consider all the greats back then and I've mentioned to others that it's sad that most are gone or rarely come around anymore.

It's funny though looking back at some of my old posts on other sites, I cringe at how green I was and that I didn't know anything and sounded like a dork. :lol2: I know pretty much all of you from old posts at FF, but back then I rarely had any interaction with most of you. Glad that's changing as I get older and care about more than myself. :sweat:
 

Nathanius

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I found this site while looking for meshes to use in Star Trek: Continuum! It's a pretty neat little community you've got going here :)
 

dvatreknerd314

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Might be a total noob here, but what's Star Trek: Continuum? Sounds vaguely familiar but I'm not sure.
 

Hellkite

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Mangledduk

Nick Corcoran
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I was searching for Armada downloads about four days ago and this came up. I was so excited to find a still functioning site for modding Armada games.
 

Alec

Cadet Sophomore
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31
I found this site after doing a search also. The other sites that I had gone to before have all died. Glad to have found a new home.
 

USS Ridgeline

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I personally was looking for another game modding community for ST:A2 since Armada2files no longer is operational.

I have to say when I came across MSFC and looked around the site, I realized I found my new home for ST:A2 Game Modding Community.

Thanks for keeping the love of this game alive and kicking!
 

at3unit3

Cadet Freshman
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12 Jun 2016
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Could all members please post how you found this site. I am interested to know where people are coming from and what is working and what isn't.

I was searching the web for new places to download ships and others for Star Trek Armada 2 especially since File Front went offline. MSFC was one of the sites that came up and I thought I check it out.
 

jchung

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Similar to the folks here. I have been playing armada1 2 and fleetops for quite some time. I just started moddin armada2 for fun and came here by accident looking for some ships
 

at3unit3

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Could all members please post how you found this site. I am interested to know where people are coming from and what is working and what isn't.
I am back by the way, I found this site while looking for more ships and stations to add to my Star trek Armada 2 game.
 

Crunk

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I was playing armada 3 on sins when it dawned on me that armada 1-2 started it off.
I searched for armada mods and sites( not many left) and found fleetops again and then found this site off their forums.
 
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