Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

Considering 'most' don't have anything to compair it to, I'm sure they don't mind SE5 UI. Heck I have recently played some SE3 and a fair amount of SE5, and I can easily get sucked into play either on of those much easier than I can a game of SE5. I haven't even encountered a bug or anything like that, there is just something that doesn't click, which is a real shame.

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

Woot for new posters!

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

Everybody has to have a first post. It's just a question of what pushes you over your "tipping point" to bother.

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

Anybody else seeing a return of the dreaded access violations? I played several turns of a big balanced mod game that I had started under the last patch, now when I try to move any ship or fleet, boom, access violation, invalid pointer operation after that. Not sure if support will even look at a modded game, especially one started under a previous patch?

Can somebody point me to a decent free archiver? I had the free version of winzip but it's expired and I'm not paying for a utility I use only when I have a problem with this game (literally). TIA

Guess I'll go back and start a new unmodded game and see if it stays stable. Frack.

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

True, I wouldn't call it awful myself, but I would call it fair at best and in need of some playability work in some areas. (Actually what I'd expect from a programmer that doesn't play his own game though.) I can live with some of the buried menus, you learn where things are even if taking 3-4 clicks to get the job done is counter productive. Trying to manage large numbers of fleets/ships/task forces is unnecessarily tedious at the present time and I'm hopeful there are some tweaks. Time will tell!

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winrar works pretty well. You'll get a little nag popup if you don't purchase it, but it isn't that annoying.

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7-zip is good... can't actually create rar's but it can unpack them, and it's completely free http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
http://www.7-zip.org/

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

Welp i tried it again.


The sim times do seem much improved.

But the game still just plays slow menu delay + having to bring up total separate menus to enter stuff like designs name or its type. And other annoying UI stuff like that. Means i can do multiple Se4 turns in the time it takes me to go threw one Se5 one..

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Heck, I have downloaded, played and then uploaded SE4 turns while waiting for an SE5 turn just to finish downloading.

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Also check out TugZip or IZArc - both are free and can handle multiple archive formats.