Birth of the Federation

Good news, using the new knowledge gained from the Ferengi (free) trade routes code I've found a fix for one of the most annoying bugs of BotF.

As speculated here, when signing trade treaties, the entry at [systInfo+3Fh] can prevent the first contact with unknown minor races (although by encounter of independent minor-ships it's still possible).

The bugged code hides in sub_46A770 and can be overridden quite easy by removing of the jump statement at 46A7F7:


In trek.exe at 0x69BF7


change:

0F 85 7A 00 00 00

to:

90 90 90 90 90 90


That's all.


No more worrying about signing of treaties with other empires.

wonderful!
great discoveries you have

I agree great find,

Good thing I am so lazy and 1.0.3 update is not completed yet, so it can be added.

thunderchero

This bug was rally anoying! thanks for solving it. Also I think Spocks-cuddly-tribble deserves the Code Master title for all his work.

That's awesome! Much kudos are in order for SCT. You, sir, are one of the greats.

thunderchero wrote:

SpiN wrote:This bug was rally anoying! thanks for solving it. Also I think Spocks-cuddly-tribble deserves the Code Master title for all his work.

I have offered it to him and he declined. (this was about same time Gowron and DCER was given honor)

I hope he changes his mind

thunderchero

I really hope he changes his mind as well. He truly merits the title IMHO, even if he feels he doesn't.

Another excellent find, nice one

Time to lock up your minor races because I sense a Biblical level of bribery going on in MP now

this is awesome... ive always hated declaring war on my allies and never being able to bribe their minors away from them

Oh, this is awsome. I hope everybody updates their mods for this fix. This has always been my biggest complaint with botf.

Very nice, this was long overdue. Great work!

you know for years and now nearly a decade i've played as the feds and everytime in a game with minors i've played i've always rejected lucrative friendship treaties if my intelligence reports showed minor races with in that empire. Wll Done it is truly an great improvment to the diplomacy

Problem solved. :-) I downloaded Jokers patch and the numbers all lined up properly. Thanks for all of the help guys.

Congratulations, S.C. Tribble, this has really been one of the most sought-after bugfixes. And also looking at your other recent research, like the phantom dilithium fix and the Ferengi free trade route code, I think your new rank is really hard-earned, and I'm happy to see that we have a third code master now
Outstanding work, thank you very much

My BOP to-do list just exploded ^^

Well done indeed. The devil is in the details. Bravissimo!

This bug fix has totally saved my game. I'd only met about 7 minor races and no matter how often I passed over other systems I could not initiate diplomatic contact with anyone. A very belated thank you!