DOS Games Discussion

I figured it out once but then forgot how. If I have time I'll see about doing a little experimentation to work it out again. I know there's a way to input manual coordinates even if the computer is working, but I don't remember exactly how to do that either.

Wow ... obviously that's a bug. It appears that it still does an impulse engine move (and as such, takes energy from the impulse engines) but magically enables them to function however damaged they may be. Oh. Well, it made sense to me that you could do a quick hop with the warp engines, so I never...

Have you ever had a communication telling you a base has been destroyed when you never had a distress signal from it in the first place? This seems to have happened to me a small handful of times. I'm not sure. What I do know is that sometimes you get a flood of messages (more than three at once) a...

Further tips: Mongol battlecruisers can fire plasma bolts too, not just commanders. Beware. Certain commands can be shortcutted. Examples: One does not actually need to enter the (m)ove command, open the movement box, and enter coordinates. If one wishes to travel to, for example, sector 4, 1 in qua...

But this happens even if I arrive late into the quad. I thought maybe StarBases will sacrifice themselves to save the Lexington. But what you say does explain why I've never seen a base destroyed right before my eyes. As far as I can tell, the "destroy" date is approximate. Starbase is gi...

But even after a StarBase has given a distress signal, in some cases even after the date I was told it would last till has passed, it seems I can still rely on its protection. Yes, if you're physically present in the quadrant the Starbase will persist indefinitely, even past when it would otherwise...

In outcome 2, is the explosion ever powerful enough to destroy any Mongols in the process? When the death ray explodes? Not that I recall, but I'm not 100% sure. Yes, that's more more or less what I do. But the success rate is still very low. As such, I think rescuing a Union ship should score more...

#1 -- definitely a bug. #3 -- I warp hop to the next quadrant and back when I get plasma torpedoes fired at me. If you move away (from the Mongol who fired it) the damage will be reduced, but if you're in bad shape you don't want to be hit by a plasma torpedo at all. And, if you're at point blank ra...