Hi John, Well, to be honest that isn't something I advertised in the manual. You were suppose to discover the ability to detect cloaked ships on your own. However, that said it is not always a surefire option. The enemy ships have to be in fairly short proximity to the ship doing the scan, and even then picking them up is hit or miss. Locating cloaked ships even on Star Trek, the TV show, is fairly rare, but has been known to happen now and then.
As for the fix to be honest I'm not sure I have it. I'll have to look through my own archives and find it. So I'll get back to you on that if and when I locate it. I have abandoned STFC 1.x because the game is in rewrite and the rewrite is better in many ways. Cheers! On 8/24/13, john <jpcarnemo...@comcast.net> wrote: > Ok, that helps a lot. I had no clue that it was possible to check > for cloaked ships at all, I guess that's why defiant keeps > getting hit by pairs of them. > Is there any way you could email me the patch for the game, > I really don't rellish the idea of searching through years of > archived messages for it, and crashing whenever I check sector > location or try to do the borg mission is frustrating. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com > To: Gamers Discussion list <gamers@audyssey.org > Date sent: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:45:22 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] star trek final conflict: has anybody > ever won this? > > Hi John, > > If you are getting attacked like that it sounds to me like you > aren't > using your sensors to their full effect. Long range sensors will > help > you keep track of where any and all non-cloaked vessels are > allowing > you to anticipate how close they are, when an attack is coming, > and > you can adjust your ships' positions accordingly. Short range > sensors > have the advantage of detecting cloaked vessels in your immediate > area. It will show up as a subspace anomaly of some kind and you > can > pretty much figure out there is a Klingon or Romulan ship about > to > decloak and attack you so you can use that info to your > advantage. If > you aren't scanning each and every turn for each and every ship > no > wonder you are getting jumped. > > As for how sectors work in STFC they are squares of about 100 by > 100 > units with the letters A through J giving you your horizontal > position, and the numbers 1 through 10 giving you your vertical > position. So if you were in sector E-5 you would be in the center > of > the starmap, or at least in the center sector. > > I think what has you confused is in Trek 2000 it has a very > simple > grid of 100 by 100 units. Each sector represents one single unit > on > the map where in STFC a sector location is more like real space > travel > with a sector covering 10 parsects of space rather than a single > unit. > So at warp 9.7, maximum speed, it would take you about ten moves > to > travel one sector or 10 parsects in the game universe. Does that > make > sense? > > Cheers! > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
