Birth of the Federation

I feel after ten years it's time for a big thanks to this amazing community, especially thunderchero, for taking over the matters as main admin after the demise of the old forums on Apr 25, 2008. When logging in, from time to time one can see many of the long time members still popping in(albeit mos...

I have been looking for the location for commands for each combat group. I know I am just missing it or blind Problem is there are different switch modes in different processing depths. Special cases: - vs. monster, station, minor ships, 3+ way battles (with allies?) - non-combat group - special ch...

Let's go deeper. In sub_478370 we find some nice retreat orders: AUTO:00478482 mov dword ptr [ecx+1FCh], 0Ah // non-combat unarmed AUTO:00478563 mov dword ptr [ecx+1FCh], 0Ah // non-combat armed AUTO:004785C8 mov dword ptr [ecx+1FCh], 0Ah // warships Fun fact is that the codes here can only switch b...

Ahead of the 10 years anniversary of the restored AFC-page, at 2018-04-25, some funny facts about tactical combat. :smile: Datafield ds: 5905A0 sets the combat groups, ships belong to, with the ship function (0 scout, 1 destroyer...) used as index value. Group IDs are: 0 - fast attack 1 - long range...

I don't have BotF installed for hex-code, but this should work for Ollydbg: 00469AD4 8A42 28 MOV AL,BYTE PTR DS:[EDX+28] 00469AD7 BA 06000000 MOV EDX,6 // tech ID = all tech aka lowest 00469ADC E8 9F9BFEFF CALL 00453680 00469AE1 48 DEC EAX 00469AE2 D1E8 SHR EAX,1 // tech level /2 rounded down 00469A...

In a nut shell what I was hoping for is, when it checks for any main structure upgrade, if available to change current structure id to upgrade structure id. I have been looking at these sub-sections 488B2C and 43E950 but I have not really found much myself This would allow me to adjust main structu...

More examples for buildings (focus on the by default unused bonuses): - Magma Converter [volcanic planet] +% Industry (local) or +Industry (local static bonus), since volcanic already has default bonus +%energy - Magnetosphere Dynamo [Gas Giant] +% energy (local) - Denunciation Agency (Agony Booths)...

Here is the Federation AI special code for not attacking & liberating Minor Races. So you could switch the feature to empire ID 2 ferengi or disable via ID 5+. federation prefer to attack subjugated systems? 40E958 cmp cx, 1 // 0xDD6E federation don't invade free minors 40EA8E cmp word ptr [ebx+8], ...

First game bug ... Newly-built structures are unpowered if the exact amount of needed Energy is available. You might try this: :wink: 445EE0 jge -> jg // at 0x452E0 change 7D to 7F 4460AE jge -> jg // at 0x454AF change 8D to 8F (for multiple buildings i.e. OBs) Fixing your second bug is too intrica...

It's even more intricate. After the upper numbers are reached, and there are no more upgrades available, the below multipliers apply: - Industry - 0.7 (shipyard) AUTO:0042E5F8 mov edi, 66666666h AUTO:0042E5FD mov ebp, 3FE66666h 0.3 (no shipyard) AUTO:0042E6D8 mov ecx, 33333333h AUTO:0042E6DD mov esi...

Note that - sub_42EE40 is shared with the AI, so all changes might affect AI system building behavior - the whole code is implemented in a VERY intricate way e.g. energy and especially food code is loaded at least five times (i.e. skipping energy for player systems has to be done at least five times...

Warning -> Tactical Combat - Option to switch Crystal Entity & Planet Killer from 'Hold' to 'Charge' -> will cause a crash vs. cloaked fleets!

My question is how it decides how many of each type to build? it looks to be based on max pop Food & Energy just check the system's consumption, other are based on population and shipyards. Trek.exe multipliers: - Food - ensure the system's current Food consumption * 1.25 DGROUP:0057896C dq 1.25 - ...

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I was not aware of agility loss in black holes :grin: Well, it's about black hole sectors, 'in' the black hole you might lose even more agility... :wink: Btw, here is the table of likelihood for ship destruction by black hole when map speed lower than 2: https://www.armadafleetcommand.com/onscreen/...