FreeOrion

Though I would like to see more activity in the Story forum. I don't see a point in limiting how many posts are in the story thread, it just limits creativity. The rules for the story forum wll be changing soon (within a week or two most likely). There will be more room for posting new threads on v...

There will be something like a 'campaign mode', where all the races in the game are defined, and even empires will own multiple star systems right from the beginning. This campaign mode will represent a certain point in the history of the FreeOrion universe. There will also be a 'custom play mode', ...

In windows, wordpad seems to do a better job of handling line breaks than notepad does.

There's no ETA on version 0.4. Currently the design document is in the works, which will be the basis for coding 0.4 when ready.

I'll be surprised if he ever beats us! I keep trying to explain that troop transports are no good on their own.

This looks great, glad to see it in action at last!

FreeOrion can run on 800x600, it's just that things may be missing. Edit config.xml to change the resolution.

If you're a computer idiot, the best chance you have of getting FreeOrion running is finding someone with a Windows machine and downloading the installer.

Anything else won't be easy or obvious.

There isn't an easy to use Mac version yet.

Welcome to the project Ted. It will be great having your contributions. Feel free to add notes to the wiki as well.

I agree with Sapphire Wyvern. What appears to be good or evil is relative. Consider Earth's history (it is our policy not to compare to modern politics to avoid offending anyone). During the Crusades, those participating saw themselves as being on a good and righteous crusade. Those who were the vic...

Soon, nothing will stand in the way of the armies of YoghurtBot!

I have created a thread where you can post a list of sites that you have submitted FreeOrion too, along with some other information and a caution not to spam websites:

viewtopic.php?t=1236

The time has come that we are ready for FreeOrion to be announced publicly and linked to from other websites. We have submitted a notice to some websites, but invite you to do so to places you think are appropriate. Post in this thread information on any place where you have submitted news about Fre...

FreeOrion 0.3.1-RC1 has been released, which is a bugfix release. Thanks to tzlaine for this, and everyone reporting bugs to sourceforge.

Please test and report bugs based on this version:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=75752

You can build ships, including colony ships, and buildings. You can also research new buildings and more.

Check out the quick play guide on how to: http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/V0.3 ... Play_Guide