*Edit - damn you Jig, you posted whilst I typed this!
Hey trekker-, welcome to the forums!
...Or at least, welcome back, if you've lurked here before as you suggest.
For a start, there most certainly have been updates in the last year. The last major update for Supremacy was in May, which we announced on the forums. There haven't been any updates at all since then though because Mike (The developer) has been swamped by his "real" job and hasn't had any time to continue programming the game, however.
Trekwar has joined our community as a replacement for Star Trek: Allegiance. Nemitor (The developer for Allegiance), has been hit by some bad luck lately and has had to concentrate on his university studies. His development team broke up in light of this, so virtually all development on Allegiance has stopped for the time being. Trekwar was a rival project to Allegiance, but is actively being developed by Klogd, who signed up to the forums a few months ago. We've now given him his own forum section, so check it out for screenies and development updates.
Birth of the Empires is going to release an update some time in the next few months, or at least, that's what Malvoisin said a month or three ago. No other word on that has been given yet though, and I haven't actually seen him online in a while.
New Beginnings...well, I don't actually know what Jigalypuff is doing with New Beginnings. He hasn't discussed his plans with me in a few months now. I do know that he was busy with his plumbing business a while ago though, and he still lurks on the forums. He does own Star-Trek-Games.com afterall so he's entitled to lurk all he wants.
The site itself has undergone a number of changes in the last year too. We've expanded to become a general Trek gaming website, instead of just being a Trek modding site, due to the sad demise of startrek-games.com. We've added the star-trek-mods domain to cover mods for existing games as part of this expansion. We also expanded to include the Aftermath development project for both Star Trek: Legacy and now Star Trek: Bridge Commander, and we've in fact just completed a site update that allows users to upload videos and post comments on said videos via our
Site Portal. If you check back far enough in the news updates on the site portal, you will find that
I Did Actually Post About The Supremacy Update. ...
As for increasing the resolution for BOTF, I don't know if that is possible. You'll have to ask over on
Armadafleetcommand. If they don't know how to do it, no one does.
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