Birth of the Federation

I posted this in the sticky but no one responded. I did Joker's 1.02 "fix everything" patch directly onto the 1.0 CD install. However, the game seems a lot crashier than my old install. My first new game froze 6 times in 200 turns. My new Ferengi game is now freezing about every 5 turns. U...

Hmm can't anyone address my crashing problems? I pretty much stopped playing cause I got tired of crashing out of BotF and losing progress...

The important part was at the end -- the star they mentioned orbiting the black hole can be calculated to have the following orbital characteristics (approximately) Orbital radius = .0159 light years Orbital velocity = 0.62% of light speed Acceleration of gravity from black hole = 1 / 414th of earth...

I've seen the "Electric Universe" stuff, some of it is interesting, some questionable. Anyway, I don't see a lot of concrete science in this thread. Let's examine some definite facts. The article claims: "The team, who found that one particular star made a full orbit of the black hole...

Dang. Another critical thing I never knew, cause they never bothered explaining it. So the minor races with ground combat boosts AREN'T totally useless after all!

Geordi LaForge 80%
Spock 75%
(Redshirt) 75%
Jean-Luc Picard 70%
Deanna Troi 65%
Data 64%
Leonard McCoy 60%

I could see that, I guess. The test is stupid of course, but aren't they all?

Started in 2000? with Federation of course. Found the game very frustrating after the freedom of Master of Orion II -- "why do they get mad at EVERYTHING I DO?? I can't freaking INVADE SYSTEMS?? Upgrading structures takes HOW LONG?? Making races like me costs HOW MUCH???" Yeah. I don't thi...

Hmmm thanks. I remember seeing that display now, but it never seemed to make sense when I kept losing. How about my questions about the transport strengths, is it always 100 each, or more when upgraded? I've been reading some of the tips, some are pretty amazing, such as transport + colony ship = in...

Maybe I'm blind, but I have never understood how you can tell an enemy system's ground defense. Where is it listed?? I'm tired of losing giant fleets of transport ships in seemingly ridiculous defeats. Supposedly you need 1 transport to counter 100 ground defense - how about transport II, do they co...

I had BotF working pretty well (XP Pro SP3). I had used some solution I found elsewhere on the web (not sure where) to get it working in XP, but it was pretty stable most of the time. Then I had to reformat my hard drive for various reasons. Fresh install of windows, applied all patches. Reinstalled...