Birth of the Federation Downloads


 

Editing

Wraith's Editor This Editor allows customization of every stat for every ship in the game including whether or not it is able to cloak. For more info/questions visit the BotFED site.
The Starship Design Bureau The Starship Design Bureau has been around since before BotF was even released. They are interested in all aspects of editing of the game.
edited shiplist.sst and shipdesc.sst (zipped) Using Wraith's editor I've edited BotF ships so that they more better reflect the Star Trek universe. Changes: Galaxy X II, Defiant have cloak, Nor-class Space station is incredibly powerful, Negh'Var flagship (formerly Negh'Var II strike cruiser) is the most powerful ship. Galor has the best armour. Defiant has ablative armour. London class renamed Pike-class for transports, Mars-class for colony ships. McKinley-class space stations, Deep Space-class outposts. Bigger ships are faster than smaller ships. Goront and Ooron exchange ship type. Ferengi vessles are not as powerful and cost less and have a lower maintenance cost. Cardassians have way more hull armour than other species but have weaker weapons. Galaxy X II is the most powerful Federation ship, but has less shields than Soveriegn. Klingon ships generally have the strongest beam weapons, Romulans generally have the strongest torpedoes. Outposts and starbases are much more powerful, but also have a higher maintenance cost. The Borg have been altered so that they have significant hull armour and shielding but do not destroy vessles in one shot like before also the borg have shield draining torpedoes. & more.

1. find stbotf.res in your botf directory and change the extension from .res to .zip and open it up with Winzip.

2. find your shiplist.sst copy it and keep it safe in some other folder. delete the shiplist.sst in Winzip and replace it with this one. Do the same for the shipdesc.sst file.

3. close it up and remember to change your extension back to .res before you start up the game.



Screenshots

Wolf 359 Federation Armada vs Borg cube
Romulan Fleet Same as on front page
Romulans vs the Federation Same as on Imperial Senate page
Fighters target Galaxies A swarm of D'ridren attack ships target Federation command vessles.
Romulan Warbirds attack After the first barrage of attack fighters, Romulan Warbirds and Federation Galaxy class vessles exchange fire.
The Federation fleet has been decimated Romulan strike cruisers target remaining Federation vessles (offscreen fighters come about and take out a crippled Galaxy-X warship)
The Romulans encounter the Borg by Mark L. A large fleet of Romulan Warships decloak around the Borg Vessle as it enters Romulan territory