Birth of the Federation

Where all the botf players at? I have yet to give infinite a go in MP but I will one of these days!

I cant believe there is still activity here keeping this magical game alive. I recently loaded it up after not playing for years and its amazing how this old game is still so much better than most new games out there even if it crashes constantly lol. This game and this community really are special ...

I just realized I called a Borg incursion a good event! :shock: I'm curious if you extended events from say 10 turns to 50 turns does it effect monsters with the same frequency as system events? If so then you're just as likely to have your home system obliterated as you are to encounter the Borg an...

you did see the " might " in that sentence. Haha I got excited but I'm sure I've had BORG=ON over the years with random events turned off and there was never an encounter! :( It would be soooo awesome if someone knew of a way to get rid of the bad random events and allowed the good ones t...

but if you edit the stbof.ini to borg on and leave random off in game setting you might still get borg? Is this true??? It can't be that simple??? Lol Having the Borg show up in a game is such a cool random event that really adds a different element to the game but having your home system meltdown ...

It would be nice to be able to have random events on but the rate of climate changes and natural disasters turned down. I miss the Borg but playing on a large map I can't play with random events on. It soon becomes, easily, every 10 turns a planet's climate gets changed (not that bad) or a natural ...

I am so far out of the loop does ewarzone still work and is there people still interested in playing this crash happy game? Lol

That sounds like a bug although I have never heard about that one before. If their troop transport left the sector before finishing the outpost it should disappear. If the outpost is completed and you move a ship that is ordered to engage into the sector a combat should occur. If the outpost was com...

Finally, I could use a guide to battle tactics. How to pick between charge, flyby, and circle when using scouts and destroyers when playing a low-tech game. It seems that with regular and green ships, energy weapons like phasers always miss, and only torpedoes have a chance of hitting (especially w...

Use thunderchero's multi-installer for botf V1.0.2 that is the patched version of vanilla that virtually everybody uses. I would recommend getting the full game experience in vanilla and once you've had your fill of that try the ultimate dominion mod 3 for a refreshing more up to date game experienc...

Oh and you should definitely stomp them out as you are romulans, if Feds than a diplomatic victory would be acceptable! Haha

I have a feeling multiplayer is going to make a comeback I am unfortunately stuck in a work camp with slow Internet and won't be able to play for a few more weeks but I plan to be available to play and ill have loads of free time after Im done!

Still playing vanilla thunderchero? Lol

I played a vanilla game last week tech 5 as cardies (obviously) trying to win before turn 100 not sure if its possible but am determined to do it!

thunderchero wrote:
with the current info I have collected it would be interesting to see a 5 player game. with no AI running the search/explore subroutines that cause turn lag should be nothing. but combat calculation lag would still be present.

Well lets find enough people to try! Lol

How does the UDML map run with more than 2 or 3 players does it have lots of lag and crashes? I would be down for an epic 3 or 4 person game on that huge map!