One thing that I really dislike about SEIV
 

Everyone has at least one thing that just bugs them about the game. Some its an AI issue, others graphics; etc, but for me it's the GRID.

Today, while promoting the game at work, I came to realize that the one thing that has illusively bugged me about SEIV is that damned GRID map. I simply hate it.

I truly wish that Aaron would replace the GRID map with a map of space with different color stars representing systems much the same way the white boxes do now.

Jump Point lines could stay, but would be masked in a "fog of war" until used much the way they are now.

The other thing that truly bugs me about the game is the general lack of planets with alien populations on them. As it stands now, all planets are unihabitted, except for Random Neutrals, and those are limited to six.

What I would love to see here is up to60 random RACES, each at different levels of technology randomly placed throught a large galaxy.

Give them some special tech, like:
War College - Gives an increase in training
Peace Shrine - Increases happyness
etc. that could become part of your empire as you open trade or establish alliances, or simply conqure them.

(I have a rather large list but I'll save it for now.)

These two things are really the only things about Space Empires that I do not like.

My intent with this post was not to open the flood gates of "I hate this" but rather to point out specific items that could use some serious improvement, and perhaps, if Aaron choose to make another game,incorperate it into Space Empires V.

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"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard
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[This message has been edited by Atrocities (edited 13 June 2001).]

Re: One thing that I really dislike about SEIV
 

The feature that I HATE most, at least in the demo, is the group movement in combat. I curse it at least 10 times a day! It has a nasty tendency for messing up your battle plan big time when you forget to clear group assignments AND move the group leader. I admit that this function is pretty useful when there are a lot of ships to move, all I'm asking for is, there should be a dialog box that askes me if I want to move the whole fleet when I move the group leader. In the heat of battle it is too easy to forget simple things like this.

CW

Re: One thing that I really dislike about SEIV
 

I hate how SE4 consumes my time and destroys my social life. My boss hates it because he thinks I have some medical problem that leaves me unable to sleep enough. Is a patch coming out for the social life bug?

Re: One thing that I really dislike about SEIV
 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> Everyone has at least one thing that just bugs them about the game. Some its an AI issue, others graphics; etc, but for me it's the GRID.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I'm not quite sure I understand what your complaint is; you do know that you can turn off the grid display in Empire Options? Or are you talking about something else entirely?

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Re: One thing that I really dislike about SEIV
 

I am talking about something else entirely.

Re: One thing that I really dislike about SEIV
 

I hate scrolling down the same list over and over and over.

Re: One thing that I really dislike about SEIV
 

I don't hate anything about the game, I love it. There are things I would like to see changed / added but that's what this forum is for.

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Re: One thing that I really dislike about SEIV
 

I hate after a while of playing in the combat screen, the mouse will F-up and be offset about one game square to the left. This then carries back over to the game interface.
Only way to fix it is to reboot it.
Don't know if it's a game bug, or a personal problem.
I'd rather see a real galaxy too honestly.
Also, allow ships to be larger then 1 square.
I hate trying to make escorts look like fleas.

-Steve

Re: One thing that I really dislike about SEIV
 

I hate how those damned pink elephents won't leave me alone.

Re: One thing that I really dislike about SEIV
 

The one thing I don't like is not being able to remove planets from my list that are not in my claimed systems when I want to search for new colonies. I would like to tell it to exclude all planets outside my borders.
(yes I have suggested this to MM)