[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Roanon:
A lot of people have said that for MOO III too...

IMHO, it's very hard to compare the desaster that was/is MOO3 to SE:V. Why? Well, MOO3 was developed by a TOTALLY new dev team that as far as I know did not work on the original MOO2 (Or the MOO Original) What's worse is that I'm convinced that many of the MOO3 Dev team never played MOO2. (this is really evident in the total lack of continuity between the two games)

Aaron is the primary designer/programmer for all the SE games, and he is working on SE:V with the full knowledge of it's history, and no doubt has his own ideas as to where he wants to take this series. But unlike MOST game dev companies Aaron also listens to the end-user and goes above and beyond reasonable lengths to please his fans. (aka customers)

Stop worrying about IF SE:V will be good and start feeling the excitement of what will the next game in the Space Empires Universe. The future will come fast enough, trust that Aaron will make SE:V the best that he possibly can, and know that he has heard many of your heart felt wishes for SE. And finally, trust that the beta testers will help to improve the game even more, because as it has been in the past, Aaron will most assuradly select his beta testers from amoung you the fans. And if the fans don't know what they want then I don't know who does.

Sorry was I ranting again? I digress, sometimes when I see SE and MOO3 refered to in the same thread it realy grinds on my nerves.

Nuf Said, Cheers!