Befriending Gomtuu
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- ZeroChance
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Befriending Gomtuu
This is a continuation of my only post from the old forum... there was a discussion going on in a thread where I mentioned how after you hail a number of times in tactical combat with the random event Gomtuu he will "befriend" you (so you no longer have to choose between "hail, auto, or fight" every time he crosses paths with one of your fleets or outposts).
No one had experienced it... so I did some exploring and took screenshots.
From what I remember, you have to enter into the tactical combat screen and select hail from there three times for Gomtuu to "befriend" you. On the third hail attempt he will also hail instead of retreating.
I successfully got "befriended" by Gomtuu as every major race (vanilla botf) using the same hailing technique.
Now, being befriended is almost completely useless. The only satisfaction you get from being befriended by Gomtuu is knowing that when he decides to reside in the same sector as one of your outposts for 20 turns, you don't notice.
In short, you can be friends with Gomtuu. Unless you'd rather just destroy it.
No one had experienced it... so I did some exploring and took screenshots.
From what I remember, you have to enter into the tactical combat screen and select hail from there three times for Gomtuu to "befriend" you. On the third hail attempt he will also hail instead of retreating.
I successfully got "befriended" by Gomtuu as every major race (vanilla botf) using the same hailing technique.
Now, being befriended is almost completely useless. The only satisfaction you get from being befriended by Gomtuu is knowing that when he decides to reside in the same sector as one of your outposts for 20 turns, you don't notice.
In short, you can be friends with Gomtuu. Unless you'd rather just destroy it.
Ha, that's hilarious. It would be funnier if Gomtuu pushed your ships out of the system the first time:
"Danger. Gomtuu. Do... not... allow!" (whooossshhh)
Sadly I don't get to see the roaming entities, as I always play with random events off, due to the Borg being totally ridiculous and game-ending 95% of the time.
"Danger. Gomtuu. Do... not... allow!" (whooossshhh)
Sadly I don't get to see the roaming entities, as I always play with random events off, due to the Borg being totally ridiculous and game-ending 95% of the time.
You can play random events with the borg turned off you knowTurboC wrote:Ha, that's hilarious. It would be funnier if Gomtuu pushed your ships out of the system the first time:
"Danger. Gomtuu. Do... not... allow!" (whooossshhh)
Sadly I don't get to see the roaming entities, as I always play with random events off, due to the Borg being totally ridiculous and game-ending 95% of the time.
Find your botf folder, within there's a file called stbof.ini , a notepad file ....somewhere there's a line starting 'borg=' It can be set to on, or off then you can close the documaent (saving it first) then then you can play with the random events on but safe in he knowledge the Borg will never show up
As for taking on Gomtuu ...not wise ... He's wiped out a fleet of 50 K't'inga's before when I've tried ...he'll even attack with that shockwave we see on screen
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I've never had a problem with the Borg on this game. The big game I had on 'All the ages' seen the borg win the game for me, they wiped out the firengi, klingons and romulans leaving me and the feds in a race to colonise the rest of the battered galaxy, and I won the race and won the game with less than 10 battles in the entire 500 turns of the game. And half of those were me beating the Borg.TurboC wrote:Ha, that's hilarious. It would be funnier if Gomtuu pushed your ships out of the system the first time:
"Danger. Gomtuu. Do... not... allow!" (whooossshhh)
Sadly I don't get to see the roaming entities, as I always play with random events off, due to the Borg being totally ridiculous and game-ending 95% of the time.
Don't expect the Borg to win the game for you on that mod every time ...especially when the AI is on a high tech and a big battlefleet ...they're more than capable of taking down a cube now.chestermike wrote:TurboC wrote:Ha, that's hilarious. It would
I've never had a problem with the Borg on this game. The big game I had on 'All the ages' seen the borg win the game for me, they wiped out the firengi, klingons and romulans leaving me and the feds in a race to colonise the rest of the battered galaxy, and I won the race and won the game with less than 10 battles in the entire 500 turns of the game. And half of those were me beating the Borg.
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Just because Starfleet has only seen one, does not mean that it's the only one.
Picard and Sisko have only ever met 1 Q, but as Voyager found, they are a whole race.
I know this is emplied by Q (like when his powers are taken), but then for their to be 1 Gomtu, their must have been parents/creators, it's only logical
Picard and Sisko have only ever met 1 Q, but as Voyager found, they are a whole race.
I know this is emplied by Q (like when his powers are taken), but then for their to be 1 Gomtu, their must have been parents/creators, it's only logical
Like the bad guy from so many horror films,
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I think that he (Tam Elbrun or whatever his name was) not just only said "Gomtuu" to it. There was another word he said to it before it literally 'went nuts'
(dunno if you can get the joke - in german it's "durchdrehen" - same as rotate - what it literally did...)
btw.
Would be brilliant if you could use it as a ship after befriending it!
(dunno if you can get the joke - in german it's "durchdrehen" - same as rotate - what it literally did...)
btw.
had to hail Gomtuu in some cases for 5 times and more until I was able to marry it. In one case it even was a lighning wedding! I would call it love at first sightZeroChance wrote:On the third hail attempt he will also hail instead of retreating
Would be brilliant if you could use it as a ship after befriending it!
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