Birth of the Federation

I recall nothing from this project. From reading my quoted notes, this code still reads the minor races tech levels same way as vanilla and expects vanilla upgrades in edifice.bst. And it's just first part of a discontinued project. I strongly advise against using this code (the post should be delet...

I anticipated the 'free cloak' issue when creating the patch (post updated with missing notes form my ida-notepad). Another option for cloaked ships using 'Cloak' instead of 'Evade' has been added (same movements as Evade but they should stay cloaked same as with 'Hold'). And it should be possible t...

Be warned, this topic is a bit confusing due to the order of processing (priority). Keep in mind the first met condition sets the command. Hail Retreat Retreat Hail Retreat Ram Retreat Main Commands Entire-Fleet Commands AI allies (affiliation/alliance) are forced to join Hail or Retreat of players ...

Sorry mate, lately I hardly read the forums due to running out of time before summer break. So I have to focus on posting & finishing some breakthroughs with AI commands. I will come back to MUM after this. Your problem here is a tough one due to the strange, and still partly unkown, mechanics of mi...

During combat, a ship is designated as "unarmed" if its minimum beam range is equal to zero. https://www.armadafleetcommand.com/onscreen/botf/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=79#p596 Apart from this are we sure the 'beam minimum range?' at shiplist.sst +0xDC is actually used? Same question arises for shield p...

Here is how to change the enforced 'hold' into 'evade' when surprise-attacked by a fully cloaked fleet: 4721E1 mov dword ptr [ebx+1FCh], 0Dh ; set ship hold // 0x715E7 -> 07 'evade' 4721F0 mov dword ptr [ecx+54h], 0Dh ; set group Hold // 0x715F3 -> 07 'evade' 472213 or byte ptr [ebx+20Ch], 10h ; loc...

I'd be interested in the fixed klingon buttons for ECM:

viewtopic.php?f=4&p=52413#p52316

The patch doesn't change the AI ram code itself, it just removes the jihad restriction. AI has problems understanding fleet/group sizes. It can only determine weakest and damaged targets: https://www.armadafleetcommand.com/onscreen/botf/viewtopic.php?f=220&t=286#p3639 Also AI would not understand ch...

How about a random chance / turn for 'magic terraforming' or building a colony ship.

Increase chance with:

- how few turns till current max pop reached (or start after it's reached, in BotF this is requirement)
- current bio or all tech -level
- maybe personality / habitability level modifiers...

In this situation I wouldn't worry about the 'peanuts' (albeit multiplied by income cheat), the overall strategy matters more.

Basically the AI cheats via increased starting credits and total income depending on the difficulty level, plus it gets dilithium refinries for all extra starting systems even if no dilithium present: https://www.armadafleetcommand.com/onscreen/botf/viewforum.php?f=215 One the other hand the AI has ...

Hard to predict since Borg are always based on RNG (base chance 0.43% each turn). But you can try to summon them using the F6-key (1:7 chance) :wink: Other limiting factors are: - difficulty level & minimum fleet requirement of the empires (default cube buildcost * 1.25): https://www.armadafleetcomm...

Shared bonus ranges still allow for custom (empire specific) base ranges. Just note that depending on the used 'F4 screen display fix' option the tech limit values for custom ranges might change by one (option A max tech level -1). If there is an UE interface issue, setting base ranges equal during ...

Well, as said, trouble was, for both of us, that windows update refused to work.

Same experience with one of my laptops. Major updates broken after 1803 (IIRC). Microsoft support offered only clean new full install for all people having same issue. Problem persisted for more than a halve year, with updating bios and drivers not helping. At some point it updated again (currently ...