I'm really sorry to hear about your hard drive, I hope at least your important personal stuff is backed up.
I don't think Mass Effect mods are dead though - Someone on the Nexus is doing races, 2 people on the forums and I myself am going to get back to working on major races/factions as well as mods and shipsets.
I for one might be able to base some of what I do on these mods so at least they're not the final itteration that can't be added to ever again.

I still encourage you to try doing stuff with the mercenary and smaller factions :D

Hey everyone, over the past few months I've been working on modding this game and it has been extremely frustrating. I'm not a computer guy so that's one of the problems, but it seems that making minor changes such as changing the display name of Durantium to Eezo, for example, causes the game to crash all the time. I do not have the coding ability to track down what is causing these crashes. I hope to try to get this done someday, but it is probably unlikely. Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up. My computer's hard drive failed last week so I lost all of the progress I had made. I do plan on trying to get some more merc groups up around Christmas time. I wiould like to add the Eclipse, Talons, and Blood Pack. Also, if there is interest, I could make a more agressive version of the geth (the geth heretics).

You should collaborate with Omnibus he has quite a few of the mass effect ships.

Looking forward to possibility of adding the ships!

fit* sorry not fir*

Just bought the game and took a look at the workshop to find some more races, while it downloaded. Wanted to find something that really fitted with the style of Galactic Civilizations III and these seem PERFECT! Feel like both of the games races are pretty interchangable and fir together quite nicely :) Excellent work!

Love the Mass Effect Universe! Great job thanks!

you know you could have commander shepard as his own special forces or even the spectres since they're the council only forces since turians and asari are there military already.

good job sir :D

I've been struggling some with the ship builder but have seen some improvements in my skill of building ships to actually look how I want them to. I'm hoping the devs will release the option to access the ship designer outside of games with all parts (basically the whole templates from all the different ship styles) open to use at once. If that's the case, I would gladly help out with building ME ships for your mod pack. College will be starting up again shortly for me, so it would be very slow work, but a labor of love I'd be delighted to undertake.

Mass Effect Fans, after learning that a potential Mass Effect mod for GalCiv III has been abandoned ( http://www.moddb.com/mods/mass-effect-contact-wars ) by its developer (he has not posted that on his page, I talked to him via PM), I've decided to take a stab at it myself. If you take a look at the mod page on moddb.com , you can see that it was intended for the mod to release in 5 stages, with the first being the races, logos, etc. I essentially have that part completed with the races I have uploaded (the only ones I have left are the Eclipse Mercs, Blood Pack, and Talon Mercs which are practically finished, just have not been uploaded).
Here is my plan for the mod:

Mass Effect races and factions (essentially completed, just have to figure how to get them properly integrated into a mod)
Mass Effect resources (Element Zero, paladium, platinum, Iridium)
Tech Tree Modification (To accommodate for Mass Effect techs/resources)
Mass Effect Star Names
A proper Mass Effect map with starting positions, correct star system names, and (crosses fingers) mass relays (possibly need to use wormholes to emulate this)

Obviously this is an ambitious undertaking for my first large XML mod for this game. It will likely take me quite awhile to get it going, especially since I will be starting college again in a few weeks. I would appreciate any help I can get. I would love to collaborate with anyone who is willing to help. If you are willing, message me here. I am planning on making a moddb page sometime within the next week or two. I will post the link here once I do that.

Notice that I am not doing custom ships. The reason for this is that I find ship design in GalCiv III to be really cumbersome and frustrating. After trying to make the ME ships before, I have decided that it's more trouble than it's worth and I couldn't get the ships to look how I wanted. If someone would like to take up this aspect of the project, that would be great.

http://euderion.deviantart.com/art/Ultimate-Mass-Effect-Starship-Size-Comparison-479620685

This link contains most of the mass effect ship models including krogen and baterian plus others. Hope this helps.

I can not wait for the ships to come out for at least one of these factions! Though if you need insperation for that check out the sins of the solar empire mod called 'Dawn of the reapers' since they found art work and models of both salarian and batarian ships. Hope that helps a bit

Yes please!

If the desire is there, I will upload my Blue Suns and Eclipse mercs. Just let me know.

Awesome stuff dude. Great idea.

One of the problems with Mass Effect was that there really wasn't a great deal of focus on ship combat. The Normandy is pretty much the only vessel that has enough presence in game to get a feel for it. The few other vessels they show aren't very good to use as models I'd imagine. The rest often don't even have ships of their own represented in game, so anyone trying to make ships for each race would really have to guess and be creative about what they think it should look like. I don't envy the task you've taken upon yourself Commander, haha. Well, thank you for the collection of mods! I can't wait to start an insane sized game using all of them.

Thank you for making these when the ships get created this will probably be the best mods for this game.

Making the ships is my next task. I am not artistic though so that will take me longer.

I love ME saga, good job! There would be a lot of work to create the design of all the ships :D