Looking good.

Screenshots are the german one's, but installing english, the game is in english too.

When will alpha 6 be available for testing ?

I think in a few hours (or minutes)...

Great ... expectations are high

I see that you decided to use the icons I made. I'm glad I could help. On a sidenote - I wasn't that satisfied with them so I might go back and make new ones. I'll keep you posted.

I've already downloaded it from the German forums and am currently installing it. As a side note, the default installation folder is the same as Alpha 5.1, so you might want to change it if you don't want to overwrite your previous install.

Hope you don't mind SirP, but i've edited your post to add in the new download link. I also fixed a couple of typos and tidied up your post, as well as making it a global post so it appears in all forum sections.

I'm now in the process of sending out a mass email to people with a link to this thread. I'm also writing up a news post for our site portal.

@Matress_of_evil:
Thank you very much. My post looks much better now ;-) One question: Did you also fix typos in the changelog?

Yes, I did. Why do you ask? It was mostly just capitalization.

In next installer I will use this changelog instead of my old one.

Ah, ok. It sounds like it's just a case of something being lost in the translation. With your permission, I'll rewrite the change log if you'd like?

Looks very nice!
Happytrek

Excellent game so far. I just have some suggestions. Rename the race "Bosniacs" there will be a lot of european players and a lot will recognize that they are named after Bosniacs - people from Bosnia.

I would recommend different Insignia for the Coalition. If you want I can try to design something.

More colorful ships, almost all are gray. The equivalent of the Klingons and the Romulans could have green, the Cartare yellow...

A lot of Gas giants are not very realistic, I can try and make you some more realistic images if you want.

Overall excellent game. I can't wait for the final version, I just hope that Supremacy will get close to this level soon.

Great Game

Oooh Nice,

Glad to see it moving forward

Ok, here is suggested insignia and a few Gas and Super Gas Giants.

Great. Your gas giants look very good! I think we use them and replace some older ones.

But the insigna symbol doesn't look good ingame. You can test it. You only have to replace "MAJOR1.bop" (is a png graphic bop = png, boj = jpg) in Graphics\Symbols with your one. Size should be 200x200px. And the other problem is, that we use our current symbols in many parts of the terran skin. So it isn't easy to replace a symbol.

Ok, I'll test it. It was just a suggestion anyway.

If you need graphics stuff in any other part of the game just tell me. I can try to help you.

Also, I can do other planet classes if you need. Terran, desert, volcanic...

Well Sir P and Mal FAB release so far. It is solid and runs well. Really a million times better than BOTF ever was until the mods came rolling out. And your still in the Alpha stage. One thing I noted though was when a system leaves an empire or the empire falls you cant conquer that system anymore. I did in the other alphas you had out I think. Its just i cant do anything with those systems and it looks odd in the game when its just my empire and 1 more left and we cant take the system laying there doing nothing. Capital systems included. Can or will you fix this?

Paddy

I'm quite sure that somebody is already working on that problem Paddy. Thank you for pointing to that problem.

Just wanted to ask everyone when are we going to put out a new update? The last one is quite old and we have done a lot of work in the meantime.

a new update? for birth of the empires? the actual is quite new (jan 23 this year)

But I know SirP is working for the Alpha6.1 - but there's no release date known.

For Supremacy the last update was quite a long time ago, but that's stuff for a threat there