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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Any of you guys that played the Starfleet Battles series ever get into "Starfleet Command"  PC game? Also "Renegade Legion Interceptor" was pretty good also for a computer version of turn based space combat sim. I like that game most because if you can survive long enough you can customize a really awesome ship to fly.

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Any of you guys that played the Starfleet Battles series ever get into "Starfleet Command" PC game? Also "Renegade Legion Interceptor" was pretty good also for a computer version of turn based space combat sim. I like that game most because if you can survive long enough you can customize a really awesome ship to fly.

Starfleet Command had great potential and i quickly bought the original and then the later Empires at war and Orion Pirates. Unfortunately it proved unplayable to my great and bitter disapointment. The primary reason? The AI is useless. I mainly play solitare and had not the time for online play. I quickly found out that the "AI" only has one move......close with your enemy and stay there. That might work for a B-10 Battleship but hardly works for a Klingon D-7 or an ISC CA. Basically the AI acts like it's always flying a Federation CC trying to set up a point blank range Alpha strike regardless of weapon type or warship class.

Also didn't like the fact that they doubled the durability of all the ships so that even a Fed overloaded Photon enhanced Alpha strike or Romulan R-torp hit at close range does little more than cause moderate damage. Finally the Romulans were screwed by the absence of the Plasma bolt option creating a serious loophole and exploit to their defense. I recall a number of very bitter threads about that on the useless Taldren website.

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Any of you guys that played the Starfleet Battles series ever get into "Starfleet Command"  PC game? Also "Renegade Legion Interceptor" was pretty good also for a computer version of turn based space combat sim. I like that game most because if you can survive long enough you can customize a really awesome ship to fly.

Starfleet Command had great potential and i quickly bought the original and then the later Empires at war and Orion Pirates. Unfortunately it proved unplayable to my great and bitter disapointment. The primary reason? The AI is useless. I mainly play solitare and had not the time for online play. I quickly found out that the "AI" only has one move......close with your enemy and stay there. That might work for a B-10 Battleship but hardly works for a Klingon D-7 or an ISC CA. Basically the AI acts like it's always flying a Federation CC trying to set up a point blank range Alpha strike regardless of weapon type or warship class.

Also didn't like the fact that they doubled the durability of all the ships so that even a Fed overloaded Photon enhanced Alpha strike or Romulan R-torp hit at close range does little more than cause moderate damage. Finally the Romulans were screwed by the absence of the Plasma bolt option creating a serious loophole and exploit to their defense. I recall a number of very bitter threads about that on the useless Taldren website.