We are arranging interviews with some of the developers of the trek games being produced here. We would like members to post questions with what they would like to know with their games. The first planed interview will be with Mike Strobel with regards to his Supremacy game.

When its been a few weeks and theirs plenty of questions posted. The interviewer will choose 3 of the best questions taken from this topic and be placed along side the interviewers own questions.

The interview will then be arranged a date to be done and we will let you all know when it will be available.

Please keep to this format when submiting your questions please.

[Title]
[Which part of the game you would like to know more about]
[No more than 2 sentences]

Thankyou for your co-operation.

although the 3d engine will be the last thing you work on will you be porting from an existing engine or makeing your own? what model format will you be useing? or have you even considered that yet?

Are we going to see a BOTF 360 game someday? For the XBOX 360.

hm, don't know, maybe a bit too personal, but: How much of your time per day is floating into the development of the game per saldo?

btw. we already have a interview posted here in the bote general chat section which you translated for us, so if you find something interesting there as questions..

Do you prefer...

Star Trek or Star Wars?

Jean-Luc Picard or James T Kirk?

Jadzi or Ezri? (Or do you just like the worm?)

Riker shaven or not shaven?

Deep Space 9 or Babylon 5?

Deanna Troi or Kira Nerys?

"All Good Things" (TNG), "What You Leave Behind" (DS9), "Endgame" (VOY), or "These are the voyages" (ENT)?

will you be creating tools to edit the game like the bote guys have? will i be able to do total conversions for stargate and babylon 5?.

Doesn't seem like you've suggested anything Winter

Erm, What things do you think your game can bring to the BOTF experience that are new and exciting concepts?

Chris

My question would be.

Topic - Overall

Question - What are your primary and secondary goals overall.

Sorry Chris...

I'm interested in the ships? Will we have a new varity? possably even perhaps carriers? to haul smaller ships to a main battle?


How many design changes have been done with the ships?

got another one:

Is the project ever in (far) future times going subversion or cvs, so other interested ppl can work directly on the source or of course only parts of it like maybe the 3D-engine or certain changes to the galaxy generating engine if that would be necessary and people are interested in participating in source development?

so in other words, will 'certain' modders ever be able to access parts of the source beside the mod tools?

Cleaned up thread due to request from mike.

PLEASE no chit chat just questions please.

Thankyou all.

How Far along do you plan to take the AI in game, in both degree's of complexity, scope and modabilty.

Regards Wolfe

Once you said:

I liked BotF (obviously), but it just doesn't have enough replay value or depth to make my top five.

My question: What will be major difference between Botf and Supremacy in term of gameplay? Obviously you are talented guy and your goal must be higher then just creating blind Botf clone?

will there be cheats in the game and I don't speak of the AI here..?

How long is a game of BotF: Supremacy going to take to finish (on average, on the various settings)? Can an entire game be finished in, say, a weekend, or an evening, or does it take an entire week or more?

will the game have a final sequence like a video or somethin? Is there a hall of fame where the best get perpetuated? Are the Borg beatable or do they arrive every now and then without one having the chance to beat them off for good even if it's just them losing interest in a while when having lost too many cubes on their intel missions?

would it be possible to set up a lobby system like the old msn zone? that would be the best thing for multi games.

Will you be implementing any easter eggs?

Closing date for questions to be submitted is 25th Feb.

topic: communication

question: do we have chat ingame like maybe even IRC or ICQ (miranda?) which means you could stay online and talk with your friends about the current game even if they don't play that particuliar round with you and without having to press alt+tab?

if so, a special irc channel would be in order?

Would there ever be plans for scenarios?

Say starting on a canon map at a certain time so you would start with a lot of systems and play from the real timeline.
Scenario setups for Dominion War, Klingon War etc

topic: multiplay

question: will there be a "visitor"-mode so a certain number of people can enter the game and just see what's going on, switch between the players/races and just visit like for example in counter-strike (the hl-tv)?

Many games are strictly tied to English spoken area/players. Thoughtfully that is not the problem of prime issue, but will it be available to add translation by some open source application or will it support some extra language files ( like $start = 'Ñ￾тарт' )?

In the name of all players from exYugoslavia, Nemanja Cosovic.

What is the Romulans weakest point in the game?

Sorry Freez,

We cannot give you what would be the weakest point of the game for Romulans. That would not be fair to us Rommies! lol

Nemanja Cosovicu pricaj u ime svojih Srba, Mi Hrvati dobro razumimo engleski...

Topic will now close, due the end date of which allowed the questions.

Thankyou all for your participation.