V0.80 (Alpha 6) -> V0.81 (Alpha 6.1)
GUI Changes:
- If more than 6 majors are available, it is possible to scroll through the majorlogos in the intelligence menu
- Technological progress is now also shown in the major races "first contact" screen
- More detailed information are shown in the ship-tooltip and ship design menu (sensors, size, maintenance ...)
- You now can scroll the messages in the Diplomacy inbox
- New tooltip in the new diplomacy menu, which shows the properties of the race
- New tooltip in the research menu, which shows new buildings or ships you'll get through this technology
- New tooltip in the planet view when the mouse is held over the owner's name

New features:
- BotE can now handle more than 6 majors (systems are created properly for other majors)
- Every race is now able to have multiple properties
- Special race ability "needs no food" implemented
- Added option in the settingsdialog to hide the minimap

Changes:
- BotE.ini and BotE.log are now saved in "My Documents / Birth of the Empires /"
- Anomalies affect the chance of winning a battle
- The shield improvement by Ion Storms is limited to the twice of the ship's maximum shieldpower
- Increased required "ship combat victories" and "successful sabotage actions" for victory
- Ship ability "fighter" now provides 30% bonus against small ships and has no disadvantages
- Ship ability "anti-fighter" now provides 30% bonus against fighter and has no disadvantages

AI:
- New research AI: AI now also explores special research
- During a war the AI no longer sends demands to the player
- AI can not make offers to Minors, when the player can not
- The AI cancels terraforming if the sector is owned by someone

Bugfixes:
- Turning of the music in the settingsdialog is now more simple
- Diplomatic offers to human players were always rejected if they were actually ignored
- Corrected strength of Heyoun troops from 50 to 5
- List of free shipnames were not transferred in MP. If another server loaded the savegame errors occured
- Fixed a Bug which reseted all characteristics of majors , no race had a racial property
- If multiple majors used the same shiplist, the game gave them too many startships
- Fixed an error in the calculation of the hit probability of beam weapons
- Galaxy generation algorithm improved (especially with many systems and many Minors)
- The command "flagship" no longer resets the commands of the old flagship
- Many bug fixes in the code
- Several small bug fixes in the *.data files
- Corruption was not evaluated correctly

Data:
- changed a few planet graphics
- Improved Ship Descriptions (german only)
- Renamed the spacestations of the Coaltition and the Omega-Alliance
- RacePlanetNames.data file is no longer needed
- Heyouns have new sounds

Internal Code:
- Calculation of the shipstrenght (offensive and defensive) optimized
- Order of processing the diplomacy messages changed completely