Birth of the Federation (BOTF), is a title that reached for the stars and then fell short in many areas. The original version was incredibly buggy - the version here already includes the patches that fix most of the game's errors, but some unfortunately bad design ideas. BOTF is a turn-based strategy game set in the Star trek continuum that was released in 1999 by Microprose.

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X Art Kaylee Best Friends more. The game's graphics & sound effects are about what one would expect from such an old game. Being a strategy title, however, the graphics get the job done, and the sound effects include many canned Star Trek clips, so the voice-acting is very good all things considered.

The premise of the game is that the player will lead one of five races (Cardassians, Federation, Ferengi, Klingons, or Romulans) from the very beginnings of warp-based space travel all the way to just past the setting of the last ST:NG movies. However, while that may be the default game setup, the player is free to alter several starting conditions; such as making the universe bigger or smaller, starting off with advanced technology and pre-made colonies, and/or the game's victory conditions.

Speaking of which, the object of the game is to control 2/3rds of the universe - which while standard fare for a 4X game is a little disappointing for a ST:NG game, as the Ferengi & Federation (for example) never really went off on a 'conquer the universe' style campaign. However, the player can change the victory conditions to 'vendetta' in which the goal is to eradicate a rival (such as the Federation seeking to wipe out all the Romulans). Again, this just didn't feel right, but maybe the reviewer was expecting something a little more (like the varied victory conditions found in SEIII). Once you start the game as your chosen race you get to manage your colony (colonies if you used the advanced start option), and send your tiny starting fleet out to explore the galaxy.

Your colonies produce industry, food, research, energy, and intelligence; and it is absolutely vital that the player properly manage each of these fields. Food cannot, unlike the Master of Orion or Space Empires series, cannot be transported from system to system. This is a very annoying oversight in the game, but there it is. So every inhabited system has to make it's own food - even if the sole purpose of that colony was to mine dilithium or maintain a long range scanner. Industry, likewise, to be spent were its. So, there is no point in building 'feeder' colonies in this game since that is impossible. Well, sorta impossible.

If your system has a shipyard it can build ships, sell them for 100% value, and then you can use that money to complete a ship design on the far side of the galaxy. The designers clearly didn't intend for it to work that way, but this is one of the least annoying problems with the game.

Energy is a vital resource if you need it, and worthless if you have it in abundance. Some of your planets, if all they do is have a shipyard and industry, for example, will require almost no energy. Your homeworld, where you will build the majority of your unique structures, will require zounds of energy. Research is required to learn new technologies, but I found the number of technologies so limited (only 8 areas of research, and they just linearly progress) that the R&D area was often my 'dump resource' if I began the game using the advanced starting conditions (which after several play-throughs became the only way I found enjoyment in the game). The lack of variety or any degree of customization options really made the R&D part of the game boring after you have played a race once.

There was more options to customize your race's technology progress in Master of Orion than there is here. So, no trying to research a 'cloaking technology' tree - it doesn't exist.

So if you happen to be anyone except the Romulans are Klingons (and the Klingons only have two designs that have one) you can just forget about it. Intelligence production appears of little value early on, but once you go to war with one (or worse, several) major races, it becomes almost as vital as dilithium production. If you neglect this area of production you will have ships blown up, facilities lost, colonies completely depopulated, colonies rebel, research stolen, etc, etc. Seriously, you play this game you don't ignore this area of your empire's life - no matter how worthless it appears early on.