I Personally am looking froward to SEV and I am quite excited about this 3D Combat Engine.
I quite enjoyed Starfury, and since the SEV Combat Engine is apparently based off starfury (or maybe i have my rumours crossed
) , there are several points and speculations i would like to raise here are...
1. Space Empires V combat will most likely be like SEIV in one sector. That means that it provides a lot more stratergy if objects are in that sector. We all complained everything was too small in Starfury like planets and stuff, since combat most likely is confined to one sector everything should be much larger. Imagine fleet battles in asteroid belts or using a gas giant for cover?
2. 2 dimensional or 3 dimensional movement...That would be epic, although maybe difficult to keep track of in huge ship battles. Either way i am happy.
3. Most likely they will keep the starfury type of shield and armour methods. Instead of one giant shield you have one for each side that should make things very interesting. It would make ship battles much more fun, And if certain Skills from Starfury (Shield Regeneration, Hull Repair, Armour Regeneration) were implemented each race would certainly have more tactics to consider
4. Ship Models. Personally i thought although they all looked slightly alike that the Abbidon, Fazrah, Terran and Amonkrie ships were better than their SEIV counterparts, i still prefer Xiati from SEIV but thats ok. If they continue to use the same races (who knows? They might go for something totally new) and Hopefully MM's modelling skills have improved more just imagine what to expect.
Now if you put this together with the sheer scale that is hopefully going to be SEV (A lot of the suggestions people have made in the Sticky Suggestions thread could be implemented as well) Plus the sheer modding scale MM provides with it's games and the community here....
I'll always keep and play SEIV, But I personally think SEV will be an even better game
[ August 07, 2004, 12:04: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]