It's funny because there are more people visiting now than there ever has.

Barbra streisand effect.

A few of the major ISPs in the Netherlands are blocking it already since a few months. Not really a problem though. I used a proxy plugin first until I found some redirects.

My isp, sky, haven't blocked it yet even though they were supposed to.

Oh look, The Pirate Party UK have created a webpage, within a day of the ban, which allows you to access all the features and other wonderful bits of The Pirate Bay itself. How useful.
Also, ♥♥♥♥ censorship, especially when you're doing it wrong.

Some of you guys might know that I play Star Trek Bridge Commander. I also made a rather bulky post in this thread about it.

I just had a awesome battle. I can't describe how happy I am that I won.

I lost the first try, so I tried again.

And won.

I was fighting a Nova, a medium range scoutship/science vessel 200 hundred years into the future. One volley from its torpedoes had crippled my ship.

I was flying a out of date Miranda class, Sitak variant - Extra engines, less weaponry. The Nova was far more maneuverable then I could sanely go.

So I stepped into the insane. I pushed the ships reactor to the maximum it could go, powering all the ship systems to 125%. This over stretched the reactor, so the ship kicked in the batteries and auxiliary power.

I would not be able to keep this going for more then 3 minutes or so before I lose power completely.

After a horrific battle, I won. I could not believe I won, my ship was heavily damaged, but my last volley of torpedoes had managed to breach his shields and hit directly onto the enemy bridge.

I shed man tears.

I should not have been able to win that battle, but I did. The ship was heavily damaged enough that she'd never warp again, one of the nacelles was completely blown off during the battle. The saucer had a hole blown completely through when the Nova's beam weaponry came round and punched through.



I am so happy

G'durnit. I'm a sucker for space games that actually show damage on the ships. Downloading the demo now.

Gosh darn it, so am I, same.

If your gonna play the game, get the Kobayashi Maru mod.

It makes the game better in every way possible.

Especially graphics


You can also get the full game off that website aswell, since the game is quite old now and extremely hard to find and buy.

And if you guys want, we can play multiplayer

Thank ya caek, any pointers while we download?

EDIT: also, I would LOVE multiplayer.

Just some basic stuff.

WASD tilts the ships forward section toward where you want to go. 1 to 9 are speed settings that can be controlled by the mouse wheel.

To fire phasers, press the left mouse button. Press the middle mouse button to fire cannons, disrupters, etc. The right mouse button fires torpedoes, depending on what torpedo you have in the tubes, or if you have any torpedoes to fire.

Trying to kill a battleship in a frigate is extremely hard, but not impossible if you have the skill to try and do it. Every ship is strong in its own way, be that maneuverability, firepower or sheer strength, no ship is abnormally weak, and even the weakest ships can be deadly in the hands of a expert.


This is the chief engineer. The bridge will vary, depending on which you've selected. The power transmission grid in the corner is very useful. If you need to get more juice out of your ships systems, you can increase the power level of the setting, but there is only so much your ship can generate. If your ship takes damage to its power plant/warp core, you'll decrease the amount of power the reactor can produce, pushing the power supply towards the right. If the warp core is heavily damaged, then the batteries and auxiliary power will be used. These recharge over time.

There are 3 ways to kill a ship. Destroy the ships health, or hull as its called in game, and it will explode. Destroy the warp core, and it will cause a large explosion with a shockwave. This shockwave can damage you too, but damaging the warp core of a target is a good idea, as it reduces the power they have available.

Damaging the bridge, is also a way to kill the enemy. If the ship is heavily damaged and the bridge is also damaged, the enemy will abandon ship and launch escape pods, leaving a derelict.

A few ships come with the ability to eject the warp core. Its useful if the ship has just went through a heavy battle and the warp core is about to explode, you can eject it and move to a safe distance by emergency power.

Unfortunately, without a warp core, you can't move between systems on your own power, and will need to be towed by someone else to a shipyard to get a new warp core.

Going to warp does not make you safe from battle, either. A enemy can pursue you into warp, and the battle will continue there, either until one ship is too badly damaged to continue warp, at which point they'll drop out of warp. If this was the fleeing ship, the pursuer will drop out too, but if the pursuer is damaged, they'll drop out of warp and the fleeing ship can escape to safety.

Atleast, till the pursuer is repaired. The battles in warp are fairly straight forward, since you can't maneouver, the ship with the more powerful warp drive will take the front position.

Ship ramming. It is a thing, and it can happen accidentally. Some of the worst collisions in ship damage happen when two ships decide to try and play chicken and ram each other. Hilarious, but devastating to both parties.

And the last thing I'll mention.

Some ships have cloaking devices. These let you go completely invisible to sensors, as long as the searching ship does not have anti cloak systems, and few ships do. Some ships have the ability to fire while cloaked, which is insane. While cloaked, shields are down, so if the enemy manages to hit you by blind firing around themselves, you'll take damage much worse then if you was not cloaked.

EDIT : I'm hosting a multiplayer server now, its called DRLFF, password is cortex. You should see it on the multiplayer once you start query. It'll be on death match because who does not enjoy that?

Thanks for the link. Cloaked ships sound like my kind of thing.

I'm having horrible trouble trying to host.

If one of you guys would like to instead, that'd be great. My router is being a ♥♥♥♥♥ and pissing with the DMZ is a pain in the arse.

Thanks caek, got it all installed, but one problem. The game flickers black ever once and a while for a o.o1th of a second, any fix for this?

That's a problem with windows 7 and the game. The game was made long ago.

Oh my... The music is BEAUTIFUL! I just wanted to stay on the main menu and listen to it forever. Also, just docked at starbase 12, got the basic flying controls down. I'ma do homework now, hopefully one of you can host a server after I'm done. (My router sucks too caek, minecraft don't even work online)