Interesting. I honestly don't recall losing that many troop transports on the (admittedly few) occasions I've built starbases in black hole sectors. Could the difficulty settings affect things at all? I usually only play on Normal.
It would only apply to slow moving ships, so it might not be apparent in various mods or if you play a certain race. Difficultly might play a role too but not 100% sure at this point.
@@TREKraisaturdays Way back during the first year or so that I owned the game, I recall a particular instance where I was playing (vanilla) BOTF as the Federation, and was able to construct a starbase around a black hole without losing *any* troop transports. (I know it sounds nutters, but it's always stuck out in my memory -- precisely because of how surprised I was.) Thing is, I also recall playing that particular campaign on either Simple or Easy difficulty, which is what prompted me to wonder whether difficulty settings might be a factor. Granted, that doesn't strike me as a terribly likely explanation -- I'd have thought difficulty settings would only affect the AI, not how lethal black holes (and other spatial phenomena) are to ships -- but I admittedly don't have a better guess off the top of my head.
Interesting. I honestly don't recall losing that many troop transports on the (admittedly few) occasions I've built starbases in black hole sectors.
Could the difficulty settings affect things at all? I usually only play on Normal.
It would only apply to slow moving ships, so it might not be apparent in various mods or if you play a certain race. Difficultly might play a role too but not 100% sure at this point.
@@TREKraisaturdays Way back during the first year or so that I owned the game, I recall a particular instance where I was playing (vanilla) BOTF as the Federation, and was able to construct a starbase around a black hole without losing *any* troop transports. (I know it sounds nutters, but it's always stuck out in my memory -- precisely because of how surprised I was.) Thing is, I also recall playing that particular campaign on either Simple or Easy difficulty, which is what prompted me to wonder whether difficulty settings might be a factor.
Granted, that doesn't strike me as a terribly likely explanation -- I'd have thought difficulty settings would only affect the AI, not how lethal black holes (and other spatial phenomena) are to ships -- but I admittedly don't have a better guess off the top of my head.
can you play this on win 7 ? if so how and my copy keeps crashing
What copy? Are you using a disk?