Very Vital Feature Request!

[dmahawk]

posted on March 16th, 2009, 5:22 pm

Last edited by dmahawk on March 16th, 2009, 5:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Greetings people.

Is totally vital that in future releases of Fleet Operations you include the feature of allow play WITHOUT the very old Star Trek Armada II CD, because in most cases it's damaged (That's my particular case). Not doing so encourages piracy because it is unacceptable to buy an original copy again.
That's my opinion.
Long live and prosperity.
Hawk out.

posted on March 16th, 2009, 6:05 pm

go, get a 1.1 nocd patched exe or create a image on your harddisk and mount it with daemon tools or similar, that's entirely up to you
welcome to the forums

posted on March 17th, 2009, 5:31 pm

Thanks for the welcome!

I appreciate your quick response.
I have the patch. It must be applied in C:Program FilesActivisionStar Trek Armada II Fleet OperationsData Armada2.exe?
That's it?
With that I will be able to play multiplayer without any problems?
Pardon my ignorance, but did not want to spoil the game, wich is an amazing remake of one of my favorites games.
I was playing Star Trek games since 1978, the first of which was a game of pure text called simply... Star Trek (In fact, by a matter of copyright her name was "Star Warp" but trekkies changed it quickly) and was written in an early version of BASIC, that game put the player at the command of the USS Enterprise NCC 1701 to hunt Klingon D-7 battlecruisers threatening UFP space. That game was not sold, but published in a book called "24 tested, ready to run game programs in BASIC" by Ken Tracton (C) 1978 Tab Books. It's mean that one must to type the entire code in punch cards, load it on to the CPU (an IBM mainframe) and play from a terminal's green phosphorus screen. Was a long road trip through the games until this!
Since then, I bought almost every single Star Trek game for the PC. And I still preserve them, but only as nice souvenirs because none of them work actually (Except Star Trek Legacy - a pain in the ass - and Star Fleet Command 3)
I tell you all these things to put in clear that I'm not a pirate (Well... maybe a little ), but... buying again Armada 2? ... ... No way, at least not in Argentina! Here that's a very difficult thing to do.
That is why I think in this way.
Thanks again for you response, and I hope I can contribute something to the forum.
Long live and prosperity.
Hawk out.

posted on March 17th, 2009, 9:08 pm

I've always found images in daemon work much much much better than nocd patches, and they don't alter your game, so the game acts just the same as if you had a physical CD in a physical drive.  Computer actually thinks it's a physical drive.

You don't need a full cd image either, you can find a partial cd image (with just enough for the game to say "yeah, there's a cd in the drive") in a lot of places.

posted on March 17th, 2009, 9:35 pm

I've always found images in daemon work much much much better than nocd patches, and they don't alter your game, so the game acts just the same as if you had a physical CD in a physical drive.  Computer actually thinks it's a physical drive.

You don't need a full cd image either, you can find a partial cd image (with just enough for the game to say "yeah, there's a cd in the drive") in a lot of places.

that is known as a mini-iso. if i am not mistaken

posted on March 17th, 2009, 10:15 pm

Thought it was just a normal ISO with the non essential parts deleted?