SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

Yep, its available for download.

http://home.spaceempires.net/article304.html

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

Yah, definitely one of the better patches. Bugs are falling by the numbers and turn processing times are slowly nearing tolerable.

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

I see he skirts one of the issues in particular. I suppose even once it's fixed you can't come out and say what the problem was exactly.

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

Actually after reading the log of things fixed in the past, I don't really expect him to explain what the bugs were.

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

For me this is probably the most important patch so far. It fixes problems that stopped my games and makes the game really playable and enjoyable for me.

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

Does he ever intend to work on the UI or is that just a pipe dream?

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

He has been working on the UI, though in small steps. For example, making the retrofit and scrap screens let you select multiple ships at once. Granted, that was a while ago... I don't think he feels that the UI is a big deal to most players; in fact, he seems to think that we want confirmation dialogs in as many places as possible... A couple of forum posts here and there don't get his attention; we need more people to email him with specific UI grievances.

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I have, and have. No response, no effect, not even a hint that he even reads the emails. It is a shame really. No offense to anyone, but if he would have put 10% of the effort he spent on making every aspect of the game moddable into just making the UI user friendly, he would have made 90% of the people happier.

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

Yah, it's sort of sad, especially since UI improvements require very little effort code-wise, and he's got fans that have come up with pages worth of suggestions. Then again, from what I can recall he has mentioned that the UI will eventually be looked into, along with AI improvements, once the majority of bugs have been fixed. So even if we don't get it as soon as we want, chances are we will get it someday.

My fear is that no ( realistic )amount of work can make the current UI better than average; it's a fundamentally weak UI. And we are stuck with it at least until SE VI.

Re: SE5 Patch 1.44 Released
 

A few simple ones would go a long way. Most of this list would require very little work:

another thread

That list is a little dated and some of the things have actually been addressed, but not the major PITA ones.