Re: Space Empires V post-mortem
 

That could actually be fixed. Reduce the hex sizes so the whole system fits on-screen at the desired resolution, then reduce the size planet objects and such are rendered, and voila!

Re: Space Empires V post-mortem
 

How would you do this kind of UI change? there isn´t any way to make a 2D UI in the SEIV style for SEV?

Re: Space Empires V post-mortem
 

BINGO !!! That, in a nutshell, is exactly what I'd hoped for in SE5!:cool:

Re: Space Empires V post-mortem
 

Um, that 15-20 second turn processing time is for Turn 1, in 2400.1; with no ships for everyone in the game, just their starting planets. If it's THAT bad then, how bad will it be when people have 30-40 ships? :doh:

And this by the way is on a Quad Core Q6600; something that most definitely was not widely available or cheap in 2006; when Space Empires 5 was released; most people still had relatively older systems that managed to run SE4 turns in a reasonable amount of time; and then BAM, they were hit with multi-minute turn processing...

Re: Space Empires V post-mortem
 

The first turn takes a bit longer than expected because the AI is designing their initial ships and units. Since this being run from a script being read into the game, it takes a couple seconds longer per AI.

Unfortunately, the foundation of SE5 was set prior to the widespread availability of dual/quad core units and Vista.

Re: Space Empires V post-mortem
 

Yes that was my hopes also. The upgrade of formats was bound to cause a loss in the modding community. But I was hoping it would eventually catch up.

Re: Space Empires V post-mortem
 

There are quite a few <a href="http://www.spaceempires.net/shipyards-g-SE5.html">SE5 shipsets</a>.

Re: Space Empires V post-mortem
 

I think part of the problem is that controls are laid out badly. For example; I should be able to click on a ship and then hit TAB, which brings me to a zoomed in locked around that ship viewpoint, that I can then pan around to see the preeeeety colors or laser weapons fire...

Re: Space Empires V post-mortem
 

Tab is the wrong key for a camera follow control. Tab should be involved in switching between items.

Re: Space Empires V post-mortem
 

Orthographic view. A lot would be better if Aaron programmed the system view to display orthographically.