Birth of the Federation

Yeah, they implemented maybe half of the planed features, in the end only patching desperate workarounds for the worst messes. Here, it means the 'repair' order for task forces was not even implemented and AI repair handling is flawed to the point they had to strip all special features from repair c...

First, station self-repair has nothing to do with ship repair. :idea: Second why not just setting the stations ship repair value equal to standard ship repair value? :wink: EDIT: Inserting additional code for starbase only check might be possible but is most likely unsupported by any volunteers at t...

Your own systems rebelling and becoming independent, that's not going to be easy - I don't think the game supports systems having no owner. They do nothing in BotF (no pop-growth or building agenda) just the techlevels of the source empire get read for system defenses (even if gone). @ 2. each turn...

What was the morale threashold for revolts in BotF? Are you sure you want to know? Rebellions are one of the worst mess ups in the logical game design of BotF with the main code being mistakenly part of the random events instead of the penalties for low morale. There is three codes with entirely di...

Monsters getting stuck on the map(or even disappear) is a mod independent problem. 'Monster editing info' should hold a post on monster map movements, but options are very limited. You can change the crystal value (second on the switch table if by monster race ID i.e. crystal 25h). But this might re...

I hate it to disagree with the master of the BotF-Universe but the minor races tech levels get simply read from racetech.tec (IIRC) for each evolution level. For advancement speed see 'Minor Race Advancement'.

Major race AI research also can be infuenced via a cheat, see 'AI & Difficulty Level'.

See: https://www.armadafleetcommand.com/onscreen/botf/viewtopic.php?f=214&p=40658#p40658 Pop Support, Ground Combat, Orbital Batteries, Credit Output -> Adjusting ship weapons bombing damage (SH, population & buildings) 467479 0FAF8424A8010000 IMUL EAX, [ESP+1A8] -> imul eax, x should work, with x (...

This UE file handling is far worse than expected. So I kindly recommend: 1.) Cleaning up this topic via deleting all post after my fix codes one page 1 i.e. beginning here: https://www.armadafleetcommand.com/onscreen/botf/viewtopic.php?f=212&t=1622#p47330 2.) Adding a warning that the corresponding ...

1.) If UE doesn't support adding more name groups, even apart of the 'one byte glitch', the whole thing seems kinda pointless. 2.) If you solve #1 via altering UEs java code then better revert the 'one byte glitch' as well than messing with the asm code. 3.) Possibility of asm-fixing depends on the ...

In theory the following two changes of the patch 'Adding new shipname groups - extending shipname.bin & shipname.dat' might work with the 'one byte per group in shipname.bin' change by DCER. at 0x74910 change 8B 16 83 C6 04 -> 0F B6 16 46 90 at 0x749C6 reset 0x13 bytes to 8B B3 F8 00 00 00 C1 E7 02 ...

I'm afraid I can't provide much help on the subject. The code was tested with manually edited shipname.bin [edit: and shiplist.sst] (manually added via winrar resp. older winzip). https://www.armadafleetcommand.com/onscreen/botf/viewtopic.php?f=286&t=1001&start=30#p31799 Problem is that manually edi...

Here comes a small bug-fix for christmas. Not worth mentioning, but i thought a small contribution is better than no contribution at all. :smile: Summary / Systems -> "X Turn(s)" fix (+1 if exact amount) at 0x40D72 8D 78 01 83 FF 01 76 25 -> 85 D2 74 01 40 89 C7 90 at 0x40E59 8D 78 01 83 FF 01 0F 86...

1.) Departments cannot be chosen directly, but just by random choice. The buttons just affect the odds i.e. the currently selected button doesn't affect the bonus, only the selected random result matters i.e. the department. 2.) Attack threshold is based on intel.bin (stbof.res) see links, espionage...

I highly doubt that there are currently volunteers for suchlike asm modifications, but if Gowron gave you permission to alter BoP, you might counter and give him permission to return for intricate coding tasks. :wink: :wink: However, here are the Industry tech IDs, you asked for above: Industry tech...

Well, the question referred to the modification suggested in the linked topic. :wink: :wink: Btw the bots count as registered members and guests counter tends to be very high lately. EDIT: So we are getting a bit more stingy by cutting the free beer for guests. :razz: I see we removed the guests cou...