Birth of the Federation

I think my motivation behind this is just to give the Borg player something interesting to do for the first 30-75 turns. At the moment when playing as the Borg all I really am doing for the first 30 turns is scouting and waiting for a Cube to be finished, and then if im not lucky enough to have fou...

If you could contact them and ask for permission to use their stuff, that'd be great! Anything that we can use is game.
We really need some better models for a bunch of ships and stations.

I'm still working on setting up your Ferengi models, thanks for those too!

Some really nice sfx there!

so my best guess would be some memory leak in the system page - crashes were usually on pressing Turn but occasionally also on selecting a new system from the drop-down list. That has been suggested before, and I think you might be right. I also tried starting a new playthrough as the Borg (a reall...

I feel a compulsion to take all those empty planets when playing as the Borg and I can't right now... :lol: I know how you feel :grin: But then again, the Borg do not actually want to "colonize" star systems, it's not who they are, correct? It's most likely one of those things that will s...

The 2 autosaves trigger a read error at different points of the savegame. The save you attached (turn 189), will it consistently crash on the same "place", ie, turn 193 and turn 197 IIRC (the autosaves)? Apparently you get frequent crashes, as you mentioned 20+. How often do they occur in ...

New patch.

Scan strength bug in top and bottom rows of the map fixed.
A few more minor civs are spawned in the Borg's quadrant, in Random Home Quadrants games (not yet in Canon).

Hi Deggy38.
It does look like those autosaves got corrupted for some reason. I played the savegame for 10+ turns and had no issues.
When you say "end of the file", ou mean the error.txt file? So these crashes are also Out Of Memory crashes?

Hehe, that's a rather frequent request.
At some point we will have that. The code already supports it, and Misfire even implemented a feature in the auto-builder that builds ships/fleets for you - it is currently hidden though, we should probably look into it again.

Cool idea. perhaps the debris field could contain Dilithium, Deuterium and Duranium that could be harvested in addition to all of the above, making the debris fields very attractive to all players that are in range of harvest. That was the plan, yes. The amount of resources that can be harvested wo...

geordie wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:53 am And it was not an exception.
In the below screen Zakdorn has constructed the Subspace Analyser and even a scan from the colonized/assimilated system does not work in the map border row.

Fixed.

Sorry, I forgot that earlier, but there is other parameter for the number of minor races, so I think no reason to double it. Unless a 3 dimension matrix would be better: minor race parameter x galaxy size x AI mode :grin: At the time I was coding it, I thought about making it also depend on Minor F...

I would combine that with the difficulty level, if it's possible. Easier game = more minor civs, of course specifically for the Borg game. Tha's if the player is playing the Borg :wink: But if it's the AI playing the Borg (which is more consistent with the AIMode concept), it's exactly the opposite...

After the last game I would also propose to exclude the Hive Link from the initial colony start-up facilities, but replace it by one additional Construction Unit. Maybe the Hive Link could require some energy (25?) but it is for further discussion. It would be some competition between fleet support...

In my last game as the Borg the nearest minor race was 26 sectors from the Unimatrix One (in a 120x120 galaxy). It was far tougher start from the Borg and after first encounters with major races the Borg were more vulnerable, especially in the fleet strength, because I had to build Assemblers inste...

Well, IIRC I posted something along those lines a while ago, in that there would be a "debris field" in the sector after large battles, which could be "harvested" to get some resources. Probably by Construction Ships or Troop Transports. Some minor civs have Freighters, which are...