Game Comparrisons.

[Atrocities]

Yes, there were several mods released for BOTF as well as two patches.

Most of which can be found at most hard core trek forum sites or links from there.

[tictoc]

Gotta say S.E.4, but also gotta say cause it's not mentioned here is Sid (the man) Meier's SMAC & SMACX they are up there with it, please don't berate me for it, it's purely a personal thing.

tic

[capnq]

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Gotta say S.E.4, but also gotta say cause it's not mentioned here is Sid (the man) Meier's SMAC & SMACX they are up there with it, please don't berate me for it, it's purely a personal thing.

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Why would anybody berate you for that? SMAC/X is another great game. I'm looking forward to the roleplaying sourcebook for it that Steve Jackson Games has licenced for GURPS as well.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[ZeroAdunn]

Bought BOTF, interesting game. Some excellent ideas but overall it was a let down. Loved their idea of turn based 3d combat. They just didn't implement it right. What would be a cool game would be a 3/4 view real time space strategy games similar to starcraft (only entirely in space, no ground fighting) with tons of maps all conected together via some sort of warp point system. (I actually began work on such a game, but I suck at game making so I gave up)

[kosh]

There is a lot of other games out there, mostly freeware, or shareware. I would love to find more about them and help them to try to be like SE IV one day
Anybody aware of a web site that tracks 4x games

[PvK]

PvK rates:
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SE4
(Beats SE3 mainly due to customizability.)
SE3
(I prefer several SE3 things to SE4 things.)
MOO2
(I prefer SE3, but it does some things better.)
Pax Imperia - Eminent Domain
(Too bad it wasn't better developed.)
Imperium Galactum (SSI / Atari 8-bit)
(Very good for its time, but limited.)
Cosmic Balance II (SSI / Atari 8-bit)
(Muahaha - linked to Cosmic Balance I for highly-detailed SFB-like tactical combat resolution... a true madman's unplayable monster game.)
Imperium (Atari ST)
(Seemed unplayable but had some very neat advanced ideas.)
Galaxy (Avalon Hill / Atari 8-bit)
(Funky BASIC game - almost elegant but spoiled by luck-based combat.)

Only briefly looked at, so I won't rate:
RFTS
BOTF
Pax Imperia I (Mac)
Imperium Galactica
MOO1
Gazillionaire

PvK