Birth of the Federation

Hello BotF-community,
I have done many modifications on the "Error_Correction_mod_3.0" over three years, I use the mod only for private use, but I have this problem: My ships have only the ability to fight as a group, when their is no command ship (for example a warbird) or outpost in my group. I want to change it so I can play it like in the original BotF-version (every ship of the group can be instructed individually, for example a group of six destroyers). I was looking for similar questions in the forum, but found nothing helpful. Can anybody help me?

Hi Kurn,

easy fix,

this post explains combat changes
viewtopic.php?f=209&t=1998&p=28508#p28508

Spocks-cuddly-tribble wrote:If you want to disable the command ship solo-targeting restriction in one of your mods, just replace 75 with EB in my replacement code at the position below:

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4A6728     75 10               JNZ SHORT 4A673A

thunderchero

Hi thunderchero,
thanks for your answer, but I have absolutely no experience with this kind of modding. I only used the Ulimate Editor by now.
So to change the ship ability in battle I downloaded a hex editor and searched for the code in

stbotf.res
trek.exe
combat.mnu
combat.bin
fleets.mnu

but find nothing...
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Can you please help me?

open trek.exe with hex editor
in one of the tabs (edit?) you should find "go to address" or something like this.

enter 0xa5b28 this should take you directly to the location of code you need to change.

at 0xa5b28 you should see 75 10 change this to EB 10

good luck
thunderchero

Hi thunderchero,

it works!
Thanks! You're really helpful.

Qapla'
Kurn