Birth of the Federation

I ran a quick experiment. Using a vanilla version of BOTF, I edited the stats of one ship, the Oberth Class, and took note of how the AI responded. The first trial was as follows: Oberth Stats: Beam Weapons: 1 Beam Damage: 1 Torpedoes: 1 Torpedoe Damage: 1 Shield Recharge: 1 Shield Strength: 1 Hull ...

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Could you elaborate on the purpose of "Shield Level"?

Are the AI starships "aware" of their opponent's Shield Level?
If so that would be... good...

(Or do they just run away, as usual?)

EPIC BUMP

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Have there been any developments on this subject??

thunderchero wrote:just remember it has changed exe now.

thunderchero

you mean trek.exe?

So my .res file that I'm editing needs to be in the same directory as my trek.exe file?

That's good to know....

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Thanks!

I'll play around with trek.exe...

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Dude - awesome post!

I would have never discovered any of this on my own. This makes system micromanagement a whole lot easier.

Ok - Thanks. I'll experiment a little and post whatever I find...

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