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https://opensource.org/osd
The definition of open source. It's an oxymoron to say copyright and open source is the same sentence ie they are contradictory.
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Not many players have 400 hours to invest in a game. If I invest 2400 hours, I can make six mighty empires that no one has ever seen and total galactic war. But that is a monumental task so I'm trying to figure out was to get that time investment down to a manageable size like 400 hours.

Once that advanced save game exists, then game reviewers would want to play it and so BotE becomes a viral phenomena.
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Androids are not like PCs. In the old days, you could add RAM and create a swap file to achieve better performance. You cannot add RAM to a tablet, so if you even vaguely want a gaming tablet, get the higher end tablet that has higher RAM and likely a better processor.

You will run into issues as you lack a graphic card, so despite everything Exagear 3.02 does even patched, it is very limited. This is why Rome 1 Total War and Barbarian Invasions were completely rewritten. People love these games, but mostly what they love are the mods which will not work on an Android no matter what. You probably will end up either not playing or buying an expensive computer so you can play that and Distant Worlds Universe.

Buying an old PC is not a good idea. These devices likely have hard drive issues, the power supply is probably not great, the motherboard might be failing, etc. Been there, done that. At most figure in two years it will fail. If you buy a new computer, you should inquire if anyone has gotten a similar PC and OS to even run that program.

There are very limited strategy games for the Android. There are some independent wargames and BotE. Most so-called strategy games are pay to win MMOs. Tablets are not made to control units well with gestures, so likely you have to do a mouse and keyboard.

You can create a swap file, but to do so, you have to root the device, so likely after a year if owning it. Some apps do not like Android 10.0 so consider that fact.

How to create a swap file.
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BotE falls into a niche strategy wargaming unlike most retro games or apps.

Retro games are big right now as players get older and due to nostalgia remember how great strategy games were prior. Total War fans have been playing since Shogun 1 Total War, but after Medieval 2 Kingdoms, the Total War series just wasn't modable and even fun. It started to go awry with Shogun 2 and Rome 2 made players livid. Now players complain all the time and are retro gamers because of that. They dumber down the game and shortened the battle length of time.

Old Master of Orion fans are so devoted that even when MoO3 was poorly received, the fans hung in there and modded the heck out of it so it is more like the beloved MoO2. There are whole sites that just do MoO3 mods and that likely works through Exagear 3.02 with patches for graphics software rendering. But realize it can only do a map of 250 stars.

BotE can likely do 1400 stars as a theoretical maximum.
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GalCiv 2 runs in a 22*22 galactic matrix. That is 484 spaces so 30% of the total size of BotE which is 1600. Even hard core fans who make specialized niche custom ships, most often do not watch battles. Thus technically BotE is superior. You can however mod GalCiv2 as it is all pure XML coding.

When Stardocks screwed up with the release of the Ultimate Edition, so many aspects were broken. So the community rose up and made a community fan patch that fixed most of them. Then another fan made Autumn Twilight to put his own vision on fixing that release. Modding saved the day...again...and for free.
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GalCiv 3 has a huge galactic map, but that is meant to be used for multiplayer. Most fans do not like it as well as GalCiv 2. To play on humongous maps requires a huge amount of ram. Why? Pathfinding. So you have to spend a lot of money to play something unwieldy and that isn't as good as it's predecessor. That is peculiar.
https://www.stardock.com/games/article/ ... and-memory

And you will run into the same multiplayer issues as you can't find enough friends who can all play at the same time. Ideally multiplayer is six at most and on a far smaller map.

Just like BotE. See the pattern? It isn't bias; it is logic.
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Birth of the Empires is in a sweet spot where if the developers wanted to, could really have a tremendous fanbase. Nothing comes close to a good offline space strategy game that can do what BotE does with so few requirements. There is depth to play, but to make this leap to millions of players means some modding.

Then you would have mods or add-ons to enhance the game. Just as modders have done with Civ3, Homeworld, MoO3, etc.
1. More races
2. More ships
3. More troops
4. More buildings
5. More research
6. Advanced save games
7. Advanced multiplayer games of all sizes.
Maybe even designed maps.
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On the Android, other than unCiv, there really isn't any true modding. What people do is create a hacked program that is nothing more than a cheat or what used to be labeled a "trainer" program. It is a strange situation. That is not modding as it is not adding anything to the game so invigorating players or adding freshness to the game.

There is no need to cheat in BotE as I can show you ways to make infinite money and buy everything and consistently win. It takes time which is why I made advanced save games so you don't have to invest so much time. If it didn't take so long, I would make lots of these, but they take months now.
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https://explorminate.co/
If you visit a 4x site like explorminate, they don't even have BotE on the list in their 4x database. This is how off the radar the game is, yet in my opinion, it is one of a handful of multiplatform games of rare complexity that is free and has depth. This is immensely frustrating as if no one creates buzz, few will play, and then 10-20 new 4x games are in the pipeline in various states of development and they get articles and videos every month. Remnants of the Precursor is likely a fine game but has 70 stars as it is a MoO clone. That pales to BotE with a 1600 matrix and likely 1400 potential stars.

Not being aggressive and letting gaming sites know BotE exists is so laid back that much smaller games will pass it like the tortoise and the hare.
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https://www.pockettactics.com/search/Bi ... he+empires
Pocket Tactics is a very important mobile strategy site and has zero articles on BotE. Many of these sites have top offline space strategy games, and a miniscule number have discussed BotE.

Do a google search of "birth of the empires" in the last year. There is a scant amount of coverage. It is as though nobody wants new players. One youtuber DFuxa doggedly (with tenacity and grim persistance) makes videos, thank goodness, but few have ever seen them. He plays through campaigns which you really want lots of people doing.

https://m.youtube.com/user/DavionFuxa
Why not subscribe and steer people there so they have some idea how to play?

https://www.nextpit.com/best-sci-fi-android-games
Nothing here. Theses reviewers need articles all the time or players look elsewhere.
https://www.slant.co/topics/1683/~best- ... or-android
Nothing here.
https://www.space.com/41012-best-sci-fi ... games.html
Nothing here.

It is publish or perish, so they want to write articles, but do not know BotE even exists.
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Re: What to do when your Android is dated

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How can you help?
1. Write a positive truthful review on Google Play
2. Sign up as a free member on the forum.
3. Email 10 friends about the game.
4. Write an email to a review site asking them to consider reviewing BotE and list 10 positive attributes of the game.
5. Write glowing praise on other forums. Start a BotE topic.
6. Upload advanced save games.

This isn't rocket science. Players try a game a couple of times, and if they don't understand it, move on to a new game. Facilitate their success. Even ardent players move on to newer games. BotE takes a lot of time, so advanced save games then make this process easier.

Try the beta multiplayer with 3-4 friends and upload it with an AAR. Then others have those to try.

This is how games establish a growing fanbase, otherwise they wither over time as new games are being created all the time.
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