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Older Alpha version release announcements and interviews
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Fleet Admiral   Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany 
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=ground set=the major race descriptions
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| 14 Nov 2007, 07:37 |
 
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Lieutenant   Joined: 11 Jul 2005, 01:00 Posts: 493
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In other words the basic relationships between each of the majors... Gotcha.
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| 14 Nov 2007, 07:39 |
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Fleet Admiral  Joined: 26 Jul 2006, 01:00 Posts: 166 Location: Germany
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Edit: Hello,
On March 24, 2008, i.e. yesterday, we have released our new Alpha4 Refit version of BotE. There ain't any Star Trek content in this release. We made our own content. (And I have to say, it plays great) I implemented a lot of improvements into the Alpha4 Refit too. For example resource routes and system blockades. There are many new building, race and ship pictures, new voices and new racestyles. The game feeling would be the same, but you can discover a lot of new and amazing things. I hope (and I think) you will enjoy the Alpha4 Refit. The file is now available at http://www.star-trek-games.com so head over and register  .cheers, Sir Pustekuchen |
| 18 Mar 2008, 09:19 |
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Jig of the Puff  Joined: 10 Sep 2004, 01:00 Posts: 1305 Location: I wish i knew
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do you want this hosted on the new site? i have had several requests for it
 also, how is "the trek mod" coming along?_________________   |
| 18 Mar 2008, 14:05 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany
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The more hosts the better I think
. But it's sir p.'s decision. |
| 18 Mar 2008, 14:12 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 26 Jul 2006, 01:00 Posts: 166 Location: Germany
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Thanks for your offer
First I want to upload it to sharepoint, where you can download it. The link is posted on our german forum. Only forum members get access to this link. But after one week or so, we can provide the download from your site. Of course since it's your site, you can choose to offer any kind of mod at your site but keep in mind it's a copyright violation to do so with IP-protected mod material when you don't have asked for and reached an agreement with the IP holders first. |
| 20 Mar 2008, 09:34 |
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Crewman Joined: 08 Dec 2007, 01:00 Posts: 39
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URL doesn't work.
Hello. |
| 27 Mar 2008, 10:32 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany
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hey there. well, it works, usually, not right now I must admit, but the other times sometimes very slowly (some kind of joomla legacy mode still running as I heard). If someone got some insights on how to make joomla member registration work for both download sections and forums at a given site like this, then please go ahead and help nemitor and jig
 .alternatively, IB, you could go over to our german site (http://www.birth-of-the-empires.de), register and go to the download forum thread where all our mirrors (there are 3 of them already) are listed. Edit: Works again! |
| 27 Mar 2008, 11:15 |
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Crewman Joined: 08 Dec 2007, 01:00 Posts: 39
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Which font file is it I have to delete so the fleet symbols show up on the map?
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| 27 Mar 2008, 14:33 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany
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trekbats.ttf . I just hinted at sir p. that he renames all bote font files so that they don't interfere anymore with other fonts on everyone's system. He'll do that for the next version.
also we encountered a new bug that appears in very few games so far but leads to the turn end button not getting "unlocked" again after pressing it. If you encounter it, just upload the savegame here, we need every save we can get to be able to "triangulate" it . |
| 27 Mar 2008, 14:37 |
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Jig of the Puff Joined: 10 Sep 2004, 01:00 Posts: 1305 Location: I wish i knew
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untill these forums have been moved it`ll have to be seperate registrations sorry. the site is running slowly as the host is having server troubles. they say it`ll be fixed within twenty minutes
 it`s been a few days now  but they appear to be a good hosting plan, i`m sure it`ll be running ok soon  _________________ |
| 27 Mar 2008, 14:39 |
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Crewman Joined: 08 Dec 2007, 01:00 Posts: 39
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I'm probably not going to be playing seriously until the English version is out. My German is nicht so gut.
Last edited by IB_ on 28 Mar 2008, 21:21, edited 1 time in total. |
| 28 Mar 2008, 08:00 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany
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alrighty. some 45 more races to translate and I'm finished with that too
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| 28 Mar 2008, 08:54 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany
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okay, I'm finished with my translations (maybe dafedz is able to improve some of my wording in some parts
). But here it is: playable with the version from http://www.star-trek-games.com . Just patch it over!@jig: We'll make an english installer shortly but if you want you can upload this zip as patch zip in the meantime. Edit: New set of files, minor errors reported. Attachments:
File comment: Unpack over your main bote folder, not its subfolders
DataEng.zip [398.72 KiB]
Downloaded 226 times
File comment: unpack at ../bote/graphics/ships/
ShipgraphicsEng.zip [369.29 KiB]
Downloaded 229 times |
| 06 Apr 2008, 12:38 |
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Crewman Joined: 20 Nov 2007, 17:38 Posts: 2 Location: Canada
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I'm a little bit confused. Is this a star trek game or will there be a trek mod that we have to install?
_________________ "Learn as we're going to live forever, Live as we're going to die tomorrow!"  |
| 06 Apr 2008, 17:02 |
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Ship Engineer   Joined: 10 Jul 2006, 01:00 Posts: 5130 Location: Space is disease and danger, wrapped in darkness and silence!
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The later is true for BOTE. Supremacy and the others are ST from the ground up.
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| 06 Apr 2008, 17:13 |
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Crewman Joined: 20 Nov 2007, 17:38 Posts: 2 Location: Canada
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Ok one more question. After I add DataEng to the bote folder do I remove the existing data folder?
Edit: Nevermind I figured it out  _________________ "Learn as we're going to live forever, Live as we're going to die tomorrow!" |
| 06 Apr 2008, 18:08 |
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Crewman Joined: 14 Oct 2005, 01:00 Posts: 19 Location: London
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hi all,
Been reading up on what been happing this year, and it good to know that BOTE IS BACK ON TRACK IF ANY ONE HAS THE TIME CAN THEY WRITE UP A SHORT REPAY, WITH THE MAIN POINTS THAT HAVE BEEN CHANGED AND IF OR WHEN THERE IS APHLA 5 OUT  THANKS, ILL KEAP READING, HOPE TO HEAR FROM ALL YOU HARD WORKERS,LATERS BIG FAN OF WHAT EVERY ONE IS DOING, THIS IS HOW MICROPROSE SHOLD OF DONE IT _________________ Wasn't it your own hartley who said "Nothing reeals humanity so well as the game's it plays?" Almost right. you reveal yourselves best how you play. Q |
| 25 May 2008, 23:31 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany
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thanks! Good to know you're still followin
.New implemented things to BotE can be looked up in our changelog thread: http://www.star-trek-games.com/forum/in ... =viewtopic while the next alpha will probably be out in octrober this year (we try to stick to half-year constant releases). But there might be an Alpha 4 Refit+ version with new buildings and essentially all copyright-free artwork in it earlier next month which then can be posted around the net without any fear of the game being shut down due to copyright/legal issues anymore. I hope that answers all your questions . |
| 26 May 2008, 03:50 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany
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Birth of the Empires Alpha 5.1 has been released and made available at main portal download page: BotE Alpha 5.1 Download
A lot of new features have been implemented like minor races building their own ships and defending themselves, a galaxy mini map and easily-scrollable map (left mouse button pressed down and then dragging around), anti-bribery measures, tons of tooltips showing ship strengths or enemy orbital batteries online when hovering over a system on map, unknown races displayed with a question mark symbol so you can no longer know in advance who's coming, unlimited tech levels and 2% bonus on production per tech level development. The top bar has been made hideable so in order to save a game or open in-game chat tool, move your mouse to the upper left corner above the turn end button. Then it will pop up automatically. To see an example of our new tooltips, here two small screenies out of the game (see here for more): Coalition view of an early large Xibren fleet:  Rotharian view of an early large Vulmar fleet:  Installation and game control hints
Change Log V0.70 -> V0.71 (Alpha 5.1)
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| 26 Feb 2010, 01:31 |
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Evil Romulan Overlord of Evil - Now 100% Faster!   Joined: 02 Dec 2004, 01:00 Posts: 7392 Location: Returned to the previous place.
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Jig's been super-hyper-mega-busy with his business lately, often not finishing until 1am.
 I'll copy your post into a news item for you Mal. *Edit - News item posted. Do you have a banner that I could include in the news post, Mal? Like the one we use for Supremacy? It's the image in my signature. Images help to attract people and make news items stand out more. If you do have one, you might want to add it to your own signature as well. You can also make it a clickable link so it takes people direct to this thread or anywhere else you want. I've done the same to my signature. The image needs to be the same dimensions as the one in my banner though, or at least needs to be to the same aspect ratio. I can shrink it down myself if needs be. _________________ "Anyone without a sense of humour is truly at the mercy of the rest of us." |
| 26 Feb 2010, 08:31 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany
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I know he pm'd me about it
.thx for the news item. I had posted a corresponding text in staff room earlier, maybe you want to edit it on or replace the current one: Quote: Finally the Alpha5 made it to a new version with both English and German language choosable during installation! Most prominent new achievement is minor races building ships on their homesystems (though not flying around yet) thus posing a threat at the beginning's expansion stage of the game. Several smaller improvements have been made to the galaxy map including scrollbars that can now be turned on and off via the bote.ini file and scrolling on map with pressed-down left mouse button and dragging the mouse. Also a really pressing gameplay issue was the missing bribe resistance which has been implemented now to stop minors from being bought so easily like especially the AI did before a lot. A lot of tooltips have made it into the game at various locations, most useful for example when comparing strengths of ships in your fleet. But beware to trust the pure numbers that much, they are modified by a lot of factors at combat like maneuvrability of the enemy, crew experiences, accuracy, flight maneuvers (still automatic) and fire arcs. The BotE-team hopes all enjoy the game as much as it was making it so far! |
| 26 Feb 2010, 11:01 |
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Evil Romulan Overlord of Evil - Now 100% Faster! Joined: 02 Dec 2004, 01:00 Posts: 7392 Location: Returned to the previous place.
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Replacement news item posted. I made some minor changes to make it more News-itemy though, and I also edited your post above and included the change log. Hope you don't mind.
_________________ "Anyone without a sense of humour is truly at the mercy of the rest of us." |
| 26 Feb 2010, 18:13 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany
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sounds perfect now, thx!
 Edit: just noticed a small typo: portal page wrote: and firinh arcs. About version numbers, I think it'd be better if title said "Birth of the Empires 0.71" released or alternatively "Birth of the Empires Alpha 5.1" instead of "Birth of the Empires 5.1" which hints a bit in the wrong direction, a BotE5 is really something for the next century or something like that . Also in first sentence it could read Alpha 5.1 instead of Alpha 5. |
| 26 Feb 2010, 19:38 |
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Evil Romulan Overlord of Evil - Now 100% Faster! Joined: 02 Dec 2004, 01:00 Posts: 7392 Location: Returned to the previous place.
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0.71'd and typo fixed. Let me know if you want any other changes.
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| 27 Feb 2010, 00:48 |
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Communications Officer  Joined: 15 Dec 2008, 16:38 Posts: 48 Location: Liverpool
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Excellent! I'm glad to see it released, I'll have to get working on the English translations again though, as I've not done much with it in the last two weeks!
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| 27 Feb 2010, 16:49 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany
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take your time
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| 27 Feb 2010, 16:55 |
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Crewman Joined: 23 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 39
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I ship the ship stats could be looked at again. The Raths ships are no match for the cartare ships. I think the cartare are why over powered. They all made balanced i think. Im playing with the power level now.
Paddy |
| 01 Mar 2010, 20:17 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany
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The strongest ships in-game are those of the Khaorons. Rotharians are actually pretty weak but not as weak as the Heyoun (plastic
) ships. But they got the advantage of being able to cloak.Our combat simulator hasn't been updated yet to the new shiplist.data so there is no hard-fact reference for testing the power of different ships against each other. Once the combat simulator is updated, everyone can set up their own fleet battles and see statistical outcomes of these battles which then clearly shows which ships are over-powered or under-powered with clear figures. Update: Combat simulator has been updated: http://botf2.star-trek-games.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&p=57466#p57466 |
| 01 Mar 2010, 20:41 |
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Fleet Admiral Joined: 13 Nov 2006, 01:00 Posts: 2111 Location: Germany
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MoE, I did jig wrong, the Alpha 5.1 was online the whole time
. He has updated the old Alpha 4 download "silently" so under the same link the new Alpha 5.1 download is located. He sent me a pm where he said he was uploading the new Alpha 5.1 but I didn't get it that he meant a silent update with it . Could you rewrite the portal announcement accordingly?P.S.: The second V-5 download could be removed. I pm'd jig to remove it. Also could you add (maybe rewrite again) these hints to the main article: Quote: Installation and game control hints: - Installer is multilanguage, the language chosen there determines game language later-on. - Moving mouse above turn end button to the upper left corner on the screen activates options menu bar where you can see save your game or open in-game chat. - At first start, a bote.ini settings file is created. It will be either located at bote main folder or your documents and settings folder. If it is not created or nowhere to be found, set yourself write permissions for bote main folder. The ini allows to set difficulty levels (BABY, EASY, NORMAL, HARD and IMPOSSIBLE in capital letters) and several other options for map creation and music/sound. - Scrolling on the map has been made easier. Instead of using scrollbars (which still can be enabled back again in bote.ini) you can now have your left mouse button pressed down and move the mouse around the map to have it scrolled quickly. - Switching systems in buildmenu gets easier when you use your extra mouse buttons or cursor left and right. |
| 05 Mar 2010, 09:33 |
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