Q&A Session with Aaron Hall. (Offline Edition)

[David E. Gervais]

Hello, People

FYI Aaron Hall will be visiting the #se4 Channel over at irc.us.gamesurge.net on Friday the 13th of August for two chat sessions. (to accomidate both the north american and european fans.)

The scheduled times are 11am to 11:30am PST and
6pm to 7pm PST.

I hope to see you all there, spread the news please.

NOTE: If you won't be able to make it, you can post your questions here and I will compile and forward them all to Aaron. He will then do his best to answer as many as possible. The final Q&A from the questions posted here will then be posted for all to see, and transcripts of the chat sessions will also be made available.

..let the countdown begin..

Cheers! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

[Ruatha]

I'll release the companion before so that anyone who are like me IRC incomptent can access the chat.
Everything is predefined so it should be just to press ok a few times and start chatting.

I'll be there!

[ August 04, 2004, 20:25: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Ed Kolis]

Sweet!
Someone sticky this! (sorry Fyron )

[Atrocities]

Damn so much going on that weekend. Thanks david for posting this.

[Fyron]

For connection information, visit the official #se4 Web Site.

[tesco samoa]

take the tourney off sticky and add this...

[Loser]

Could you ask him this, specifically, please.

"Is iy going to be possible to play the game without the mouse, or with only limited mouse usage? Can we navigate the lists and bring up windows with just the keyboard?"

[Ed Kolis]

No mouse? Careful, you might get Narf mad!

[Will]

Some more technical questions:

1) SEIV, DO, and SE:SF all had basic vanilla text files for configuration and mods. Will this stay the same for SEV? I am a little bit split as to what kind of config/mod format I would like to see: stick with text, only a bit more error tolerant? or have a front-end client to modify a more compact data file? Sticking with the text files allows much more freedom, while the client would ensure complete reliability.

2) Will the game files be similar in structre and importance as with SEIV? More specifically, *.GAM and *.PLR files will still exist and perform the same uses as before, and all other game files are of minor to no importance, correct?

3) It would be nice to have a bit of randomness show up in the game, like a mineral miner advertising that it produces 500 minerals sans-modifiers, but it could actually produce anywhere from 450 to 525. I would imagine something like this will exist with the combat engine, but what about the rest of the game?

I'll probably think of more later

[Fyron]

To alleviate the confusions with time zones, the #se4 web site now has a count down page, which gives you the exact amount of time left until the scheduled chat sessions. It was contributed by Tevlik. You can view it here:

http://se4irc.spaceempires.net/countdown.php