![]() (One of the areas where the game tends to dinged is mediocre documentation.) ![]() (By the way, muchas gracias!) Some of it's helpful - more so the earlier parts - some of it not. If you wish to read/skim the manual at all, just click the link provided by Darkspire. I won't say much about them for now, however, if only because I don't want to raise expectations (including my own) - that, plus it's going to easily be at least a year (probably longer) before most of these projects begin to bear fruit, so unfortunately we're likely to be waiting a good long while yet. That being said, the modding community is working on a few different projects (one of which is already being beta-tested) that should significantly enhance - and perhaps even revolutionize - this flawed (but still fun!) 4x game. ![]() In any case, BOTF players (including the handful who still do MP) generally agree the game is a noticeably better experience with the Multi-installer version. It still doesn't fix the major problems unfortunately - you'll still suffer occasional crashes and that damnable turn lag - but it does seem to mitigate them somewhat. In addition to allowing you to install multiple mods (without having to reinstall the base game every time), the Multi-installer version also incorporates several user-created patches (courtesy of the game's small but hard-working modding community) that reduce some of the game's technical glitches and improve stability, including for MP. If you've not already done so, Nefaro, you may want to try downloading & installing the "Multi-installer" version of BOTF (you can get it here). I really want to play this again if it works better than last time I tried. The game was notoriously buggy in multiplayer, IIRC. One of those LAN games froze up near the end, however. The long string of nasty obscenities one of my buddies flung at me, after I annihilated his whole Ferengi war fleet, still makes me smile. I actually had a couple little 4-player LAN games of BotF back in '99. If some mod or rebuilt version of BotF has pretty much eliminated this issue, then it's on! It worked better on Win98 long ago in the far far away. ![]() I think it was more pronounced with newer hardware and OSes than the older stuff, too. Didn't seem to take very long each time I started playing, either. I always got sick of having to restart all the time whenever the game started slowing down and responsive got sluggish. I tried playing that again, within the last few years, but the damnable memory leaks just buggged the piss out of me. ![]() Wasn't there some freeware re-release of it? Or was that just a mod? ![]()
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