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Khaoron Empire - battle-details:



Khaoron Empire - buildmenu and workers menu:



Khaoron Empire - demography menu:


Khaoron Empire- diplomacy info menu:


Khaoron Empire - galaxyview:


Khaoron Empire- empire news:


Khaoron Empire - shipdesignview:


Khaoron Empire - system defence overview:


Khaoron Empire - top-5 system overview:


Khaoron Empire - special research:


Khaoron Empire - ship overview:


Coalition view of an early large Xibren fleet:


Rotharian view of an early large Vulmar fleet:


Coalition galaxy view w/ tooltip:


Rotharian diplomacy screen:


Heyoun galaxy view w/ star tooltip:


Cartare worker assignment:


Rotharian galaxy view:


Cartare overview of buildings:


Cartare build menu:


Cartare diplomacy information:


Cartare diplomacy outgoing offers:


Cartare research window:


Cartare ship design:


Coalition diplomacy information:


Heyoun diplomacy:


Heyoun galaxy view:


Heyoun shipyard:


Heyoun worker assignment:


Rotharian diplomatic offers:


Rotharian intelligence office department for espionage:


Rotharian ship design:


Rotharian empire news:


Rotharian lost ships:


Rotharian active ships:


Rotharian shipyard:


Rotharian special tech research:


Rotharian system overview:


Rotharian system resource overview:


Rotharian trade overview:


Coalition colonisation of a new planetary system:

Here they come:

very cool

Heeeey. Sexy!

yes. as sexy as the new release. ah, btw. it has just been released (my bad how could I forget ). I'm setting up a release message..

Sweet!

Hi to all,

yesterday we released our new Alpha 5 version of Birth of the Empires, the German one at first, but the English one won't be long I promise. Head over to the main portal site here to the download section to grab it and explore the new stuff we implemented in the game. What's more, we sought permission for everything included in this release and so it is free to distribute around under the terms of its license of course. Also, it has gotten open-source so with a little understanding of C++ you can see and modify whatever you want at code level. http://bote.codeplex.com is the repository where you can download the code.

A new set of screenshots will arrive as soon as the german version is translated into english!

Fantastic. I'm eager to see the progress in my absence!

section updated!

a few UI issues have been resolved, foremost scrollbars on galaxy map which can be switched on and off in bote.ini file. When switched off, pressing down mouse wheel to scroll will not work. However in a future version pressing left mouse buttons down and dragging mouse will replace this behavior. enjoy!

Is it still about a week to wait for the english Alpha 5.1 Ver. download? Been trying to play with the updated english files but there is still a lot of embedded german which confuses me.

95% sure it is next week. Only if testing shows another major bug we'll fix that first but I played a match and everything's fine so there shouldn't be a reason for a delay. The only thing german in the new english release should be Terra system and planet names (Earth will be called Erde, Mercury Merkur and so on).