Birth of the Federation

most sync errors happen when the players current turn is out of sync, example player 1 on turn 52 while player 2 is on turn 53. this will happen when a player double clicks the turn button during turn processing. if it is the first time this happens host can re-load prior saved game by re-naming las...

each mod has a section "Complete Conversions Mods"
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his last major update was in 2014

with UE you can cloak any ship you want or remove cloak.

In Mirror universe mod every major has a few cloaked ships.

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If you start on level 3 or higher (which it seems you do), the AI will not cheat. the AI cheats though out the game on any level especially on impossible. Do you do large galaxy? since I play mainly mods and the maps have been edited I play 48 x 24. and most of my game are over by turn 250 - 300

I mainly do quick games so I use, advanced (highest tech) all races, impossible, max minors, no randoms, no borg. as for starting a tech below, I have found the AI will not start cheating until you have caught up. :wink: The AI tends to try to match your fleet/strength when it cheats. but will stop ...

this sections is for mod info.

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you will find general info in the sticky post in each sub-section

correct

it is a simple code edit at 0x071132 12 -> 5C this bypasses the message window and starts first turn of combat before cloaked fleet can selects commands If human player is a cloaked fleet, AI will "hold" position for first turn (cloaked free turn as normal) If human player is not a cloaked fleet, h...

if the shortcuts have correct path, it might be a permission issue.

DxWnd needs to be ran as administrator when in other profiles.

The shortcuts use a command line to start DxWnd before loading game, so you would need to copy and paste path from "Everyone's Access" shortcut to new shortcut. here is an example of vanilla windowed command line. (yours may vary depending on selected options during install) target: C:\botf\tools\dx...

I gave up editing monster/randoms a long time ago, most of the time it just ruins the games So I just turn them off.

all players must have changes/edit

check this post

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I observed the problem in my personal mod which is based on ECML2 (2012), but I addsd many fixes of SCT in the last years. this might be your problem, When adding patches to something already modded some patches may overlap or old patch may need to be removed before adding updated patch. (on many u...

we have limited info and not sure how it has worked out myself

here is topic with info (some info old)
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