i'm so sorry, i must have misplaced the post XD
Now i was searching for my post and was very confused to find it here XD
funny me
i better copy past it a few treads up LoL

When I first installed the game, it wouldn't create the LOG file on startup. Other than this preventing me from changing game settings to whatever I wanted them to be, the game was playable.

However, I set out to try and solve this problem, and did so!

I am running Vista as my OS, and went in and checked 'run as Administrator' on the file. Now the LOG file error wasn't appearing, and I was being allowed to alter game settings on initialization of a new game. However... I noticed that the random see was now showing up as -1, instead of what was showing up before I 'fixed' the LOG file error situation.

I tried to run the game... and started getting a 'cannot create minor race' error, which prevents the game from running.

Anyone know of a fix for this?

there will be a bug fix in the next version.

a solution (in german) is here: http://bote-forum.square7.ch/wiki/index ... _minorrace

a) just stay on enter key

or

b) reduce minor density below 60

the release of Birth of the Empires Alpha6.1 (V0.81) isn't far away (I think not more than 2 weeks) and Revisor (german member of the team) did a translation of the changelog into English.

It would be nice, if somebody (native speaker) could have a look to the actual changelog(-translation) until Friday 29th evening and could check it - thanks very much!

GUI Changes:
- If more than 6 majors are available, it is possible to scroll through the majorlogos in the intelligence menu
- Technological progress is now also shown in the major races "first contact" screen
- More detailed information are shown in the ship-tooltip and ship design menu (sensors, size, maintenance ...)
- You now can scroll the news in the Diplomacy inbox
- New tooltip in the new diplomacy menu, which shows the properties of the race
- New tooltip in the research menu, which shows new buildings or ships you'll get through this technology
- New tooltip in the planet view when the mouse is held over the owner's name

New features:
- BotE can now handle more than 6 majors (systems are created properly for the other majors)
- Every race can now have multiple properties
- Special race ability "needs no food" implemented
- In the settingsmenu is a new option which hides the minimap

Changes:
- BotE.ini BotE.log and are now saved in "My Documents / Birth of the Empires /"
- Anomalies affect the chance of winning a battle
- the shields improvement by Ion Storm is limited to the twice of the shieldpower of the ship
- Increased required "ship combat victories" and "successful sabotage actions" for the victory conditions
- Ship ability "fighter" now provides 30% bonus against small ships and has no disadvantages
- Ship ability to "anti-fighter" now provides 30% bonus against fighter and has no disadvantages

AI:
- New Research AI: AI now also explores special research
- During a war the Ai no longer makes demands
- AI can not make offers to Minors, when the player can not
- The AI cancels terraforming if the sector is not free or owned by itself

Bugfixes:
- To turn of the Music in the settingsdialog is now more simple
- Diplomatic offers to human players were always rejected if they were actually ignored
- Corrected strength of Hanuhr troops from 50 to 5
- List of free ships' names were not transferred in MP. If another server loaded the savegame errors occured
- All characteristics of majors have been reset, no race had a racial property
- If multiple majors used the same shiplist, the game gives them too many startships
- Fixed a error in the calculation of the hit probability of beam weapons
- Galaxie generation algorithm improved (especially with many systems and many Minors)
- The command "flagship" no longer resets the commands of the old flagship
- Many bug fixes in the code
- Several small bug fixes in *.data files
- Corruption was not evaluated correctly

Data:
- changed a few planet graphics
- Improved Ship Descriptions (german only)
- Renamed the stations of the Coaltition and the Omega-alliance
- RacePlanetNames.data file is no longer needed
- Heyouns have new sounds

Internal Code:
- Calculation of the shipstrenght (offensive and defensive) optimized
- Order of processing the diplomacy messages changed completely

I've read it again and corrected some mistakes

well... Alpha6.1 has been released ... just see this thread viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4243

Is this the final version of the BOTF 2 Game?

Excluding any updates of course

not yet. It is the 0.8 version.

Thanks