Thanks, JeanNYGUARD! This might surprise you but we don't really have legions of people falling over to say thanks - most of the people on these forums have never posted anything at all, let alone a simple thank you.

...But there are still a few people - such as yourself - who do say thank you. Your thanks are appreciated by all of us. Now treat yourself to downloading the latest version of Birth of the Empires. It was only uploaded yesterday.

dido

thx from here too!

btw. there's a good chance we might break new user record today (being 23 already right now ) maybe some of them will drop in here and add something to this thread )!

alright, tx!

yeah, the way over google and botf2 search is currently nearly the only way to get to us here but we don't wanna change that since, you know, there is an upcoming 4x turn-based commercial st strategy game from bethesda (though not very much like botf and wii and ps2 only for the moment) so we rather have a little low-profile here..

Actually Mal, more than a quarter of the visits that we get on the forums are referrals from Wikipedia, Startrek-games.com, and the BotE forums - and the amount is increasing by the day. The amount of site traffic that we get from referrals is actually almost the same as the amount of visits that we get from search engines such as google.

The bulk of our traffic is from returning/direct users though. That means either we have a lot of lurkers or some people are on the forums a bit too much. I'm err...guessing it's the lurkers...

yeah, those (german) bote forums referals are due to the fact that I keep making jokes there about posts here, ..err.. no, wait, I only point to interesting thoughts and ideas, that was it, yes, anyway didn't know that old botf wikipedia article is that much visited...

It was from google, via the wikipedia entry that I found my way here, so I would guess that's a similar path for a lot of people.

hi all. i THINK i linked here from the botf modding site. cant quite remember that far back. i Joined long after finding the site though. i was catching up on the topics. i wouldnt want to be new now though. SOOOO much to read up on. Its not all MOE's fault though LOL. Mal helped too.

I think I found this site with Google... don't really remember, it's been a few years. Honestly, at the time I didn't pay it much mind, as I really didn't think this project would amount to anything . I guess in a way I was right, considering the game that was supposedly being made at the time turned out to be vaporware...

When were these forums created anyway? I found them back in 2004, but didn't join until about a year later.

I believe after the second (of many ) fallout with Universal Evolution in 2004. before it was even another site if i understand google right (damn, they keep information even 6 years..?).

The forums were created in September 2004. I joined 2nd December 2004. The forum statistics don't go all the way back to then because we lost a server or something in mid-2005. The forums have definitely grown since I joined though. I was signee number 427, and now there are 3426 people.