Tweaked the UI theme around a bit. Check it out in the screenshots or the preview update if you have it installed. I'd like some feedback.

Note that there's one or two places where the old font still shows up, and text gets cut off in some places because the font is wider. I'll take care of all that.

OK, there was a problem with a missing MIME type on the server that prevented people from running the installer. If you clicked the link and were taken to an XML file, this was why. It should work now, assuming you have the prerequisites installed.

Cheers,
Mike

nice stuff

great! Its working now.

FFClick once works great.

I haven't touched Linux in a little while now, but about to drop Ubuntu on my girlfriends computer (dual-booting Windows though for anything she needs that cant be easily done there) so that her parents, who speak and read very little English, can use its Vietnamese localization settings without me having to go pirate a Multilanguage version of Windows.

It's just my opinion, but I think developing on Windows is probably the best course anyway. Linux will have its day, but Windows I figure will always have the widest user base, most compatible user base. It's still by far the most user friendly.. dont need a computer science degree to know that much! Even Ubuntu, which seems great, I bet still has to be dropped down to a command line when XFree86/Org or something else goes wrong, and when the average joe gets dumped off at something that looks very much like DOS, they get scared. And looking up tech support through lynx isn't exactly fun either

I'm sure everybody here though would love to see you continue to develop the game; it sounds like it's actually almost sort of done! Like I said about the AI too, neh, not even necessary; MOE and I can battle over who's the best gamer on the Folding@Home team, heheh. If it got released publicly, I bet this place would light on fire with new people. Wouldn't mind even paying for it; I bought Flatspace 2 because the darn demo sucked me in and I felt guilty about using a crack on what was obviously definitely a one-man game developing team.

I noticed the next public Beta for Vista is about 3 weeks off; thats encouraging me to really grab it this weekend. I can play around, get Supremacy on there, and see what breaks the OS and what doesnt, then feel good knowing in a couple weeks it'll be a clean-slate updated install.

Sorry for the double post, but I was just watching the video again, and I noticed a typo.

About 1m 23s into the video, it says make peace with your "neighors". I assume that's meant to be neighbours?

Just thought you should know about it, MStrobel, in case you used the video for work purposes or anything...

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I've finally decided to install all the stuff that this game needs to run. It's all installed, and i've got the game running now.

First of all...wow!

I love the music, the interfaces are shiny, the Planets are cool, (Although it would be even better if they were rotating like they did in BOTF) and its easy to understand.

...Well, almost. Is the single player button supposed to be greyed out?

Anyways, there's two points I thought i'd mention:

First off, I think the system overview should also contain inductry points. I know industry is displayed just to the right of the box, next to the slider, but I think it should additionally be in the boz as well.

Secondly, is research. Does the research system work yet? Or is all my research going to waste?

This is amazing work, MStrobel...now i'm off to ary on playing the game.

Does this still work?

It works if you install the prerequisites listed in the main post. However, if you use a more recent version of the WinFX Runtime, it won't work. I haven't bothered fixing the UI to work with Beta 2, since I'm now focusing on Star Trek: Supremacy (BOTF2).

Ok, just wanted to make sure before I start installing stuff. I'm going to assume that the gameplay will be similiar, and it will help me figure out some of your design decisions and allow me to come up with some possible coding decisions you may have used.

If you have something more current that I could tinker with, that'd work too.

As soon as I get my hands on the RTM of Team Foundation Server, I'm going to upgrade my source control system (I'm still on Beta 3 at the moment). At that point, you'll be welcome to poke around in the current source branch.

Are you still going to require people to update in order to start the game up? I bring my laptop almost everywhere (it's in my car atleast), and typically break it out at my girlfriend's house when I get bored.

Oh yeah, did I mention she has AoL dialup? I respect my laptop a lot more than to install something so increadibly horrible on to it.

Seeing as though I'm not updating the game anymore, it will check for updates when you start, but it will not find any. It works offline as well, so an Internet connection is not required to run the game.

Ah, cool. Exactly what I was looking for. I want to give it a spin - maybe tonight.

my hosting company will happily provide free hosting for this project with unlimited bandwidth.

hosting is on a uk based server with a gigabit connection.

you would need to register a domain for the project, and point it too our nameservers - i can provide this service for a price of $20 us dollars, or you can do it yoursef.

contact me @ zach@hailingfrequency.co.uk if you are interested.

in other news i cannont actually download the game.

when i run th application file it trys to connect then says "cannot download the applcation, the application is missing required files, contact the application vendor for assistance*