Well, you may have just noticed that we now have a new button on the left bar. Yes, thats right, we now have a chat room. To be more specific, its an IRC channel.

What that means is that we can now talk easier. And faster. W00t.

We're hosted at freenode, so you can connect though:

irc.freenode.net
#botf2

Basically all the rules that apply on the forums are on the channel, just use your brain and we wont have any problems.

If you don't have an IRC client (Pidgin, mIRC, X-Chat, etc) you can use the handy Java client I just uploaded. Thats the "Chat" link on the left bar. You don't even have to type anything in except your username.

Comments, suggestions? Let me know.

good job, works fine.

Hope we get a lot of folks joining there, namely the new ones

btw. can someone read, explain or even say /something/ about this:

http://startrekgames.cz/bote_fi.html ?

Besides being czech, it was two weeks ago but what on earth do the screenies mean? jig, I guess we really have to take those gavin screens down from our gallery coppermine site ..

i have deleted all of gavins screenies now.

I have no clue. The title of the page says Birth of the Empires, but they have screenshots from my game, including a couple mockups, and some from Gavin's game, but none that actually came from BotE.

Lost in Translation no doubt....

Like the idea of chat, lets give the developer no respite

hello all. the page Mal links to i cant read the writing, but there is a link at the bottom of the page to the front page of the forums here. if anyone can translate im sure that would be good. im thinking its just an info page for the people of that language* and a link to here. not sure though.

Paddy

Nooooo, i didn't reply to MOE and now he has screen shot evidence

Regards Wolfe

...Eh?

Oh, you mean the message on the chat? Serves you right for just logging out!

just thinkin, sir p. made some kind of (german) "trailer" for the new alpha4, maybe you can also add this to the news, and a small screenie from the video (basically looking over sir p.'s shoulder while he is "playing" the game ). In order for not-german-speaking people not to get confused, a short remark in the headline regarding the language should be enough.

They are both looking like great games!

I could not get the trailer to play but I am sure it is great. I am having the same problem with the Ferengi matting dance video.

Ok, I uploaded it to my photobucket account for you Kenneth. I just hope tons of people don't watch it this way as it'll wipe out my download limit otherwise.

DON'T click on the fulscreen button as that seems to crash IE - although that might just be my computer...

[url]http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v207/Floydius/?action=view¤t=Alpha4_Trailer.flv[/url]

there's no sound in it for bandwidth reasons but rest assured kenneth, most will be very familiar especially to you in alpha4 .

Back on topic...

FYI - Anyone who goes into the chat room and sees me there - if it says Nemitor, it means I'm there (most of the time).

If you enter the room, I will not know.

But if you say something (like a simple Hello), I will know, and will respond.

Shame there isn't a buzz when someone new enters.

Regards Wolfe

And when people post. I hate it when it goes quiet and i have to keep checking back to see if someone has posted a new message...

at least we don't get posts that are just "Bump"