i optomised my old system alowing me to have 50 capital ships with all the trimmings, this computers is a good 50 time more powerful in graphics terms, i think i couls squees 200.

i think its time i install botf on this system, should be interesting.....

What do you mean by "allowing me to have 50 capital ships"? Is it just that the tactical screen runs "smoothly" up to 50 ships or did you mean something I just didn't get?

In regard to my system: I had a Fed-Romulan battle in botf I today, involving 100 commands and 250 escorts, and the calculation for a turn was about 15 seconds, the animation was really smooth, even in a total view.

talking about bc at high res, 50 ships in game with minimal lag

Ah, you meant BC, thanks. I couldn't help thinkin' about a computer having lags with 50 ships in Botf , because in the ancient times my first computer (133 MHz) worked that out quite well.

Wow! I played one with a battle that had 600 + ships in battle. took exactly 3 minutes for computer to run.

well my main weakness in botf is intelligence.

also i never know what to do with systems when i reach tech 9.

i tend to totally convert them to intelligence, but leave one or two to churn out ships every turn so that i can bump my economy.

What im going to do is build up ten more dreadnought 2's and then invade, i have a nice 400 system only a few squares away from ferenginar.

im going to pop in with 18 dreadnoughts at legendary, whilst splitting of two task forces of defiant to defend my far reaching borders. Im not going in with any troop transports though, im will wipe the system out totally and colonize it. I hate the moral issues with the feds. i might take the 5 surrounding systems as well.





here's a screeny

what is the defence set at on the planet.. got to watch that... can wipe yyou out fast... Otherwise sounds fun!!!

well i have recently been discovering how tactical combat can totally alter the outcome of battles.

if u always include a scout in an invasion force the ai always targets it first, giving you a free hand whilst they take it out.

using the right tactics, especially with command ships can make a difference of destroying 3 enemies or 13.





Ai tactics have changed, first turn they ram defiants with light attack ships. once the majority has been taken out they switch to ramming the dreadnoughts with their marauders.

they are knocking out the ships i use for bomabrdments. Damn this ai seems smarter than it used to be. Its ok i can make ships fater than the ai can knock them out. as soon as i my intelligence gets a leg over the war is off.

During your most interesting game, are you playing as the Federation?
I'm thinking so.. but could be wrong..

I like the split and devide attack mode. Let the Ai watch the right hand as the left hand is slapping them upside the head. lol


I plan to start a new game soon, Yes I wil still be Rom, but this new game, i will not use any cloaking. Just to make things interesting.

So do any of you play at level one? all races? I like it as it makes a huge challenge. Most times 98.777779% I lose with in the first 200 turns or so. And I have tried every race doing this... The only one who has not gave me a whooping thusfar that early in the game has been the Cardi's.

But that is thusfar.. I never say never.. So out of 178 games at level one I have won like 14 or so.. That is taking them from level 1 to level 9+ were talking about over a 1000+ turns.
Give it a try fi you want a real challenge, but beware do it first without many races. It will help you a lot in the long run.

Well since there is no 100% rock solid evidence that it was worlds or systems, we'll just never know.

It makes life easier for the writers though, coz they can just take and add Planets/Systems as they need to though.

Personally, I think that each time they made an episode, they should have written EVERY SINGLE FACT into some big book, and then used it as references for their next shows. It would have meant it took a lot longer to mkae the shows, but at least there wouldn't be mistakes...

Don't forget the Voyager shuttlebay that never ends
And Recyclable Ensign Kim (TM)

Abotu voyager's shuttles.... check out the specs on the ship, they are able to construct their own shuttles as long as they have the resources....