Birth of the Federation

My PC woke up again of course this night which then woke me up. I think it's back to forced shutdown at a specific time. So sick of this. What's waking you up? If it's the light from the monitor, just about every monitor I have ever seen has a manual off switch or button, you can try using that whe...

You know, the forced updates wouldn't be as much of an issue if they did not do the forced restart and would only trigger when the computer was idle for more than 10 minutes, plus would stop when you started using the computer again so it didn't slow it down. They could simply set the "update w...

Have you tried telling Windows you have a metered connection or following any of this advice: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/defer-block-uninstall-windows-10-updates/ Here's how to disable the updates, but you'll have to manually enable the service once in a while to do updates: https://www.clever...

It would help if you gave a clue what "this version" is.

Well, a developer should know that you should always save your work before walking away from the computer. Microsoft has decided (with some justification) that users are too stupid to update and has set it up so that they are forced to update. I disagree with the way they implemented it however. It ...

You said vanilla, but I never see fleet numbers that high, especially from the computer. When you say "Vanilla", that means to me the game without any mods beyond the official patches. Just what you get after installing from the CD. I'm curious what you actually mean in this case. Bear in ...

Also I've noticed that things like subspace scanners and shipyards contribute to your military strength estimate. So do orbital batteries, bunker networks, and shield generators. As do outposts and of course starbases. It's possible to have your fleet reduced to scrap, but still be considered to hav...

There was a slight difference between playing it on my Dell Optiplex GX110 with a 1ghz processor and 512mb of RAM and my Gateway 4200DX with a 2.5ghz processor and 6gb of RAM. Not as much as I was expecting, but the 4200DX is 9 years newer than the Optiplex GX110 (which is now old enough to drink). ...

Flyby, Charge, and assault. Sometimes evade. Generally not circle/harry. Basically torps have a minimum range, so you need to be some distance away and heading for the ship. If you are already close it probably won't fire so evade or flyby and then charge. I never have mastered maneuvering and it dr...

I do too, but I couldn't find any clips of them ramming Klingons in 5 minutes of searching. Only the Odyssey.

The Jem'Hadar did use ramming.
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I know it isn't possible, but it would be nice if the colony ship had an "auto-terraform" function similar to how the Civilization series Settlers have an "automate settler" option. So you tell the colony ship to terraform the system and it automatically does every planet, instea...

Even with the feds if attacking a core world with 8 orbitals I will have the warships spend one turn bombarding without transports before having the transports attack. On the other hand, if that initial bombardment wipes out all the orbital batteries, I'll often just have a single scout/science shi...

I was thinking "optimal arrangement" to take the minimum number of losses. Also for every race but the feds (who don't like planetary bombardment) I don't usually have the troop transports or scouts participate in the bombardment if there are more than 2 orbitals as I tend to just lose all...

Another few minor thought, though they require major code tweaks. I'd do better stacking of the ships, given you when you do a planitary bombardment if your transports are first they get wiped out, but if you make your dreadnought or strike cruisers first you take fewer casualties. Either make it so...