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Old August 17th, 2004, 04:48 AM
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Default Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

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About SE:IV... I dunno why people have mentioned turns taking hours. So far I'm taking only a few minutes per turn... simple as checking that my research hasn't run out, designing a couple new ships, and going through my fleet/planet screens to make sure all my ships have orders and all my colony ships are moving... I wonder if joining five games will eat into my time later and it will take five hours for all five turns lol... anyway, I've made most of my "strategies" in my head in my "spare" eg when I'm supposed to be studying or concentrating on frying chicken spare time lol... (don't know if you can call them "strategies", but I was pretty proud when I figured out you could put a planetary napalm on a colony ship and surprise people lol)Anyway the past paragraph was OT so ignore =)
I have a question for you. How long has your longest game gone for?. When starting it takes about 30 seconds to do the turn, but obviouslly gets longer the larger your empire. Some of us may be perfectionists who must make sure of everything each turn (and the latest feature to save during a turn is in my mind the greatest added). When you have 200 planets and 400 ships it takes at least an hour to check every planet and allocate the most effcient work. Transports must be moved from system to system topping up initial colonies etc. I only started to do well when I was prepared to micro-manage everything.

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