By medal, do you mean research?

Nah when you finish the game you get some sort of medal. The medal can be very big and pretty.

I read here about Ascendancy II and i want facts!!!! :angry:

Great idea for a game....AI is completely braindead though. Just get a ship with loads of power and plasma cannons. You can outrun and outrange them on the battlefield. You will be invincible while you pummel the enemy fleet that just ran out of power following you around trying to get in range. They can't adapt to anything and just die en mass.

Another thing that was lacking was the combat system. You can have 1 ship, the enemy 6. You move your ship the enemy only can move one then it's your turn again. It would have been a lot better and more realistic if you moved all of your ships in your turn and would make that immortal tactic stated above a lot harder to pull off.

Please help me!

I am looking for general info's about Ascendancy game files, .FNT file format for example. Is somebody around with this information?

I'm making a clone project with some enhancements (the enhancements Ascendancy players ever wanted), the game will be fully MODifiable and will accept Ascendancy game files by default.

If you could supply me with useful links, contacts or files please send me!

All that I have found on the net is a wiki spec for the .COB format, an old links page (http://www.geocities.com/greyknight3/jmp_asc.htm), the GameFaqs page (http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/dos...me/575213.html) and nothing else! I also have a .SHP editor (by Chlanda) but all other links are broken.

This game is beautiful, even if a lot of better 4x games are around nowadays, I still want to re-create it as open-source (without using the copyrighted material btw).

Thank you

Hi I played this game years ago and was SO addicted to it !!
Great Game, but yes the AI sucked.

Id love to play it again but when i start i have no sound and the mouse is very very slow.

Did anyone figire out how to fix that ?


Oh i did find a flaw/cheat in the game:
When you can build enormous ships everyone seemd to be adding the strongest shield there is...., side effect is that these take loads of power.

Now, there is 1 type of shield that uses NO power, but is very weak. So you add like half your ships full of these !! --> result --> nobody can kill you ships anymore becuase yr shield is to strong !

Using the above my tactics were 3 of these ships with "super shields".
1 war ship with only weapons added.
2 colonize ships.

You are simply invincible


Hope to helped out here, so if someone could help me out that would be great

Thx !

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i did email the logic factory about a year ago, got a reply they were finishing some other game first.. but they promised me to advice me when they start testing it.

So far didnt heard anything.. to bad i love beta testing

ah ok, works nicely in the dos box

Yes this is a very good game!

:tomato:

PROBLEM: this cheap shield is too weak for use agaisnt some weapons. This shield consumes no energy to be active but to contain damage it use energy and by having to bad stats as shield it would deplet your power or fail to contain damage. So when building a ship, use better shields and more power units. :ok: