Birth of the Federation

I got the following crash log: Version Under Test: 72 File: ..\..\source\game\military\battle.c, Line: 2289, orderOfBattle->sector->systemId != INVALID_SOLAR_SYSTEM_ID Initialize State: 31 Player Empire: 1 Starting Seed: 1321235557 Galaxy shape: 0 Galaxy Size: 2 Turn State: 20 Turn Number: 92 I have...

NVM: found it, need to also tweak it in the starting technology tab.

I want to change the tech level requirements for some buildings. Apparently I once knew how to do this (in UE) as I have wind turbines and aquaculture centers available early. Have tried to do this with other buildings but have failed. I remember doing something not quite obvious (obvious being UE/s...

Yup, downloaded UltraEdit and after several failures trying to do clever stuff, I discovered that one can just overwrite the desired hex digits. Thanks for your help.

OK, so I downloaded IDA, opened Trek.exe and found the relevant address (e.g. 004B5175) and hex input (8D 42 01). I know what I want to change it to - just no idea of how to do it.

Be gentle with me: last time I did this kind of stuff, we were still using punch cards and IBM main frames.

First (PC) game: Starflight in 1988 (when floppy discs were, when a 20 MB hard drive was BIG, an 8086 processor, 640 K of ram, etc). Hundreds since. Still play Civ3 (prefer to Civ4 - better mods (RFRE, DyP/RaR, Warhammer), Oblivion, Fallout, BotF, MOO3, MoM ( have a 486 PC running DOS for when the u...

There were some really good features in MOO3 including the tech tree, ship design, and building/fighting with detachments -> huge fleets. Mods made it much better; more aggressive AI might have made it great. Still, it remains on my hard drive and every time I play it, I think how great it might hav...

I used UE to reduce the pallette count (I was at 138 or something after adding ships, 88 after). I followed the tutorial as best I could (which was pretty easy after the first step or two, which I fear I screwed up). Anyway, the game crashed on start up, repeatedly, and when I went back into UE to s...