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President_Elect_Shang said:
I think there are various good reasons why Aaron did it this way. Most of which appear to be for the benefit of modders. Well, this is my current opinion since my experience is pretty much limited to modding and testing my own mod at this point.Don’t feel dense, or if your going to don’t feel alone! You can have a seat here with me, and SJ can share the stories of my density…
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Taking the other side of this I think Aaron created an additional frustration by not having base races for the player to choose from. This confounded me for a few minutes. I noodled it out because of my experience with SEIV. Someone new to the SE series is likely to be frustrated for a longer period of time. I know you told me you don't read manuals but I do, and so do a lot of folks new to a game or game type, even manuals with teeny tiny print like this one. I don't recall seeing this mentioned in the manual or covered in the tutorial. He should have included at least one stock race, and offered some comment in the manual or tutorial about creating/modifying more. It's a small thing perhaps, but one of many small things with the game that explains the negative press and scores from fan sites. At least to me.
I'll keep saying it, without this site and some of it's members (like you!)
, this game would die a MOO3 like death.