Birth of the Federation

Again, all of this can be changed to something that works better! I don't see a compelling reason to change this at the moment. Ok. But since taxes were drastically reduced, we might need to actually bump trade revenue up a bit. Either by increasing the number of TRs (reverting the recent decrease)...

For the one game I had where I could use trade routes, I didn't feel the amount was all that large compared to my total income. Certainly nice to have, but not game-breaking. 200 for 5-6 TRs, it's like having that many more colonies producing taxes. That was the effect I was looking for, but it is ...

1. I repeatedly attacked a Fed colony ship. They were patient, but eventually declared war. Nice! They were also a little stupid. I had a scout ship hanging in a system, they kept sending the colony ship in. My scout didn't have the firepower to kill it, so shields refreshed, it kept reentering the...

(1.) decreasing fleet support for the Borg (2.) increasing the cost of the shipyard ; and of Production Facilities too? Or setting a fixed amount of industry PFs on assimilation to make construction slower in larger systems I'd vote for #2. After assimilating Romulus, I had 5 Alcoves and 30(!) Cons...

Yes, Green stars are rare, and Demon planets even rarer. Since they're the basis for one of the VCs, they must be. The lettering is awkward, and not very intuitive I know. It's one of the lots of ToDos in the list. One day I'll tackle it. :neutral: Health Centres increase the health of the colony. H...

The ships disappeared from those fleets. The fleets are empty... Odd.
Seems like they were reassigned to another fleet. Might have to do with the (most likely) threading issue that has been reported a few times.

In my Borg game, the resistance was truly futile. I've only lost a couple of Probes, otherwise, every ship I've built all game is still in service. One fleet (coincidentally) of 2 Cubes and 1 Diamond has marched across 2 quadrants. Romulus is assimilated, and Qo'onos is next. The only thing slowing...

I am playing with today's patch file. I had problems installing the patch, btw. Norton kept zapping the EXE and DLL files. The reason it gives appears to be "Reputation" - it won't trust them cuz they're new. Funny this didn't happen with earlier patches. I told Norton to ignore the folde...

I formed an Open Borders treaty, then spent all my available trade routes (5-6) with them (stupidly, I should add, as I didn't have any to use with minors as a result... :cry: ) . I probably had close to 200 credits per turn in trade with them. I left things at that, but I'm guessing that over time...

1. In the Military Overview, in the bottom left you get OP (Outpost), SB (Starbase), SS (Science Station) or TW (Transwarp Hub) when there's a station in the sector; or just S (Station) if it is not identified. In the bottom right you get the shipyard and its # of docks (Y1 is a level 1 SY with 1 do...

The Borg AI does not ignore AI players, it chooses the best targets as any other empire would. You're probably a juicier target than anyone else. :wink: Hmmm, if say so. The Borg did skip over a minor power on their way to me. I made the mistake of diplomatically making that minor a member, and the...

Yes, there is a problem with conveying that information - though I have tried to make it as simple as possible. Basically, a fleet's assimilation capability is equal to its combined Crew value (warships only) divided by 10 (which corresponds to the ships' real crew complement divided by 1000). Each...

hi Iceman, The complete track, zip'ed, is over 10MB, so I'm not able to upload it. Any other way for me to get it to you? Sent you a PM yesterday about this. --- I never wanted to be allied with the Romulans, but they grew to like me so much, they offered me an alliance, and I didn't have the abili...

Against 2 Cubes and 1 Diamond, my entire fleet of 20+ Level II and III ships were unable to penetrate shields and stop them (shades of Wolf 359!). 1. 20K+ of shields is pretty much unassailable (at turn 280 and Tech Level 7, how can I be too weak?). Hmm, Wolf 359 was 40 ships vs 1 Cube, and the Cub...

New patch with more fixes to issues reported by Warp Core Breach. Fixed global bonuses not being updated on subjugation. Fixed weird Regard values after DoW, resulting from temporary events. Needs to be tested! Lowered shields and range of Borg ships, increased hull a bit. Feedback needed! Requires ...