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Research/intel in SE:IV proceeds by individual projects, while you can set the % of research/intel to spend on projects in SE:III or SE:V.
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It looks like it will be another 2 months. The Malfador site says August 06.
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I hit refresh repeatedly and it still says June... is there anything else new over there?
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can't see any new screenshots but it says on the SE5 site
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August... OK, but I can't help wondering if it's going to be delayed yet again and it's going to be October, or maybe even December. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
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Don't worry. We will let you know when the game is ready.
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SEIV is always going to be a successful game in its own right and I will bet a ship set, that it will remain popular long after SE V has been released. As it stands, I am as excited as a father of a 16 year old girl on prom night as I wait for the release of SE V. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
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In other words, Atrocities, you think someone's gonna get screwed? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif
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No. But I think that some elements of SE:IV like the ability to easily add shipsets and the existing mod base and pbw system will keep it going for some time.
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i think that was the perfect reply Ed!!!!!
Hey I just checked strategy first's website, it lists winter 06 as the release date. Does anyone know why there's a disconnect between the publisher and the creator? surely someone must have seen this by now... http://www.strategyfirst.com/en/games/SpaceEmpiresV/ |
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Well, thus far, neither Malfador or Strategy First has seemed to be overly concerned about updating their websites. The disconnect between the two sources is probably just because of the scarcity of updates on the part of both.
And hey, technically, it still could be a Winter 2006 release. That would mean it is released sometime between 21 December, 2006, and 31 December, 2006. August would be nicer http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif |
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It's more a case of poor updating by both sites. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif
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LOL @ dogscoff
wow, I think that was even better then Ed's. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif |
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My philosophy is a simple one. I keep a baseball bat behind the door for those boys who would date my baby girl. If they love her, they will take the beating. If they don't, they'll take the beating. - Nuff Said. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Envy.gif[/img] |
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Doesn't winter of '06 include up until march of '07? Like it's "The winter that begins in '06".
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actually as far as this hot weather texan is concerned the north of texas winter doesnt stop ever
i mean come on when u go to cincinatti oh and the new boss is apologizing for the heat wave and all you did was step outside the building to defrost in august weather t 82 degrees outside and 68 inside the building sheesh at that time back home was a over heated 97 (all fahrenheit sorry euros) |
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Fahrenheit...doesn't Celsius make so much more sense? At least it's based on something physical. 0° water freezes, 100° water boils. Logical! Today was quite a hot day for the beginning of June, and it was about 24°C/75°F. I was outside and just about dying from the heat!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif The hottest we ever get up here (central BC, Canada) is about 32°C/90°F. I feel like (and sometimes do...) crawl in the freezer! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif Then again...I'd like to see a Texan such as yourself when we hit -49°C/-56°F http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img] [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img] |
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75 F? Man, that is a nice day! I don't even want to know what the temperature was around here today. *melts thinking about it* Silly cattle rancher! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif
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Fahrenheit makes pefect sense. A naturally occuring sick cow is 100 degees fahrenheit.
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One year, back in 92, we had a heat wave here and I was working night shift for the big Red S. One morning, after a grooling night stocking and cleaning, the manager came in and ripped us a new one because the work wasn't done. I asked him if he had slept well that night, and he rather rudely responded by saying, "No, the heat kept me awake." I smiled slightly and said in response, now imagine how hot is for us, we sleep during the day. He never *****ed again during the heat wave.
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The farenheit system was designed for weather tracking so if you think about it a temperature scale from 0 to 100 makes pretty good sense as most temperatures throughout the year fall in that range. At least in Europe where the scale was invented.
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whilst i find all point here regarding the fahrenheit system valid and many informative as to its origin
i am unfortunatly stuck in the most backward progressive section of a progressive bassackwards country as our country in the 70's was to adopt the metric system sprovisionally to globalize world measurement systems and allow for more effecient trade over 20 years later we're still half n half ex gallon of milk vs 3 liters of coke (source local store) i was as a teen all for going all metric that yeazr i mean come on a sytstem of measurement that can convert from length to area to volume using two units of measure instead of having to use up 17 (seems like) sq ft hectares miles ounces galons drams sheesh i keep a book just to figure em all out i still wish we could go all metric worldwide i feel it would be a first crawl towaards the global identity we might develope in another 500 years also how far are we from the release now um 8 weeks ???? |
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No, far better to base a number system on a more universal standard, such as the number of leptons in a hydrogen molecule (2), carbon atom (6), or an oxygen molecule (16) (alternate suggestions welcome). As for temperatures, again it seems rather silly to base a scale on phase shifts of an arbitrary chemical compound under conditions prevailing only at a particular distance from the center of a particular planet. Note that the somewhat more rational "Kelvin" or "Absolute" scale at least has a universal zero point, but that scale puts the boiling point of water (1 atm pressure) at 373.125 degrees, which is not exactly the kind of round number we're looking for. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif If we must use water as a benchmark, I'd suggest setting the triple point of water (273.16 degrees Absolute and .006 kilopascals pressure) to a round number (e.g. 100 degrees Rational in base 10 or 16 notation) and working from there. I understand how inconvenient it will be to switch to a truly rational system, but I just know we'll be the laughingstocks of the galaxy (if we're not already) should we be caught using our current provincial number and temperature scales when "they" make contact. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif And for those who made it through the whole rant, http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif |
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how absurd for heiroglyphics to demonstrate counting by powers of 10! clearly the authors should have had the clairvoyance to see past their 10 sausages and think about the countless little green men living on the bright dots in the night sky. the stars are, after all, quite visible from the desert. besides little green men even helped them with the pyramids! dont aliens have 6 fingers total?
e is the number little green men could most likely relate to us with. so make a base e temperature system! there ya go... er... wait, that makes no sense at all. here's an idea - lets make a system that people can USE!! fahrenheit! celcius! kelvin! w00t! QED |
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Why should the number for temperature get bigger for hot and smaller for cold? Couldn't we have just as valid a temperature scale with, say, freezing point of water = 100 and boiling point of water = 0? Then when temperature goes up, it will be colder and when temperature goes down, it will be warmer.
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You know what, you all just wasted 20 minutes of my day, 20 minutes that I no longer have, reading these posts about what... temperature.... Dudes, W T F!
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Can't use 100 as freezing and 0 as boiling. Since 100 is much greater than 0, and the energetic kinetic motion of water molecules are greater while boiling than while freezing, it just makes sense to have the greater value with the greater value, and vise versa.
Not to mention the fact that having huge negative numbers for extremely hot events would be a pain in the arse! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif |
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But I like cold more than I like heat. So colder = bigger number = better!
If we were to be truly logical though, I say we should measure things in terms of some combination of the sums, multiples, and powers of e, pi, and phi. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif |
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You have a point there Will.
I too like cold temps. much more than warm ones. My reasoning is simple; it's a lot easier to warm up if you're cold (put more clothes on) than it is to cool off if you're hot! Defining our numbering systems by e, pi, phi would be...not fun for someone like me who isn't exactly a huge fan of math. Not to mention the fact that little kids would have a really hard time learning how to count!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif |
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No, no, no...You're all wrong!
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Once again I want to shoot myself for checking this thread.
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For whatever reason Malfador now says Winter 2006. I don't know exactly when this is. It's winter now here so I guess that would make it something like 5 or 6 months still to go http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
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Hmm, you're right, now instead of August 2006 it's Winter 2006. That's disappointing, but not entirely unexpected. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
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Oh, sure, marketing deps and their genious realease strategies. This Christamas-day obsession is getting really annoying.
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I don't think it has anything to do with wanting to release it for December as a marketing ploy. It's just not going to be done until Fall etc.
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Hasn't the beta testing period lasted for an unusual long time? I once beta tested a game, Stronghold 1, and I don't think we were going on for much more than 3-4 months or so.
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Did that game:
A) Have more than one coder? B) Have lots of in-house testing done beforehand? C) Have non-moddable gameplay/physics? D) Lack fanatical beta testers? |
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The testers were pretty dedicated, but the game was, of course, rushed out the door long before beta testing was done. I'd just think the same would have happened to SEV, being a small company at the mercy of big developers, etc.
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The only developer involved is MM. S1st isn't exactly a "big publisher" compared to something like EA or Atari.
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I bet the beta testers have forgotten that their "testing" it and are just completly lost having fun with it. :-) j/k I'd rather have a finished product then something half finished and then patched 4 times before it works properly.
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I'm not in the beta, but I can assure you spectar, they're working hard.
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