Hi

I just wondered....with the progress being made relating to the majors in the game....and the impressive overall play..........

...if there was much progress with the AI invading planets?

Sorry for being nosey, but not speaking German and not being able to look on the German forum, it is difficult to know how things are proceeding.

I think that the current alpha is really almost there and this module of developement would be the icing on the cake.

Mike

well..in BotE AI is invading planets, more exactly: systems.

At the current version I criticized that AI isn't declaring war when the own military powerness is too high so I miss attacks from AI. In previous versions AI did it more often.

well...progress only SirP exactly knows...Alpha7 or Alpha6.2 (current is 6.1=V0.81) will last till Christmas or longer (slow progress in summer ) - progress is everytime, when SirP has time to program - beyond his job or study.

well...there's no fixed list with ToDo's, there is a german list http://bote-forum.square7.ch/phpBB3/vie ... f=4&t=1564 with ideas and continous further ideas are posted in many other threads, many quick ideas were quick integrated by SirP

For Alpha7 is planed (don't know whether it's realized):
- nice starting screens 1+2 (the existing screens 1+2 are not nice only practicable)
- maybe Hotkeys
- and "Usability Upgrade" - don't know what SirP exactly has in mind with this - in my mind BotE is mostly good to use/play, ok Hotkeys are missing, and overviews never can be enough

We always take copyright-free stuff and accept any help

em, since when does the AI invade systems? I never experienced that and last thing I know is that the AI can't build troops and looking at the Cartare Union which has 2 Alpha Invaders which are never used by the AI (at least I haven't noticed it) and always a slow expansion, I think they don't. Also a quick look at the BotE changelog didn't show the feature listed there. Or have you got a save game where the AI has a fleet with troops on-board respectively invades a system?

my mistake - AI doesn't invade but eliminates a system to zero population.

Can the Cartare Union also build Alpha Invaders?
I've only found the option to build the regular storm troopers from the barracks.

in later/future versions, yes.

This was something ive noticed ie that the AI never invades just bombs the system. It would certainly add another dimension if my systems 'could' be invaded.

of course that's planned