Poll: SE IV Platinum or SE V?

[TerranC]

Rework really annoying things like the supply system and intelligence? ...What is wrong with supply ??? I think it is much better system than any other space games !

I think he means that supplies should be broken up into more specific categories (ie: instead of one bar indicating supplies, there should be 2; one for fuel and one for ammo.)

As to combat system, I still have HUGE reservations about real-time combat in SEV. And 3D graphics - no, thank you. I like ST, SW and Bab5 races custom made for SEIV. I doubt it can be repeated for SEV.

There's a smorsgabord of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Babylon 5 ship models already made out there on the web; You won't have to worry about not seeing the Enterprise in SE5. What you should be worried about is the potential lack of original shipsets, as DoGA (the number one tool used for making about a third of shipsets used in se4) isn't really made for 3d game models.

[ August 17, 2003, 19:38: Message edited by: TerranC ]

[Arkcon]

Well, before this thread becomes another "Wishes for SEV" thread, I'd like to say I'd pay 25-35 $USD for an SE4 Platinum upgrade, that addressed some of the most popular wishes for AI improvements, mounts, damage types, etc.

And then buy SE5, when it comes out, in all its glory, for 50-60 bucks or whatever. I don't buy tons of games, I can save my pennies for Malfador.

What I wouldn't like is for SE5 to be based too heavily on the interface, and rule set of SE4. Don't get me wrong, I really like SE4, I just want to see the game go in a whole new direction, just so we all have to develop new stratageies.

So I kinda wished there was a way to vote for both.

[ August 17, 2003, 19:43: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[Phoenix-D]

"Sure they can. Those ships were made with 3D models already. The ship set artists just have to make them in a slightly different 3D format, and they will work fine."

Except that most of them probably have far too many polygons to be imported and still run smoothly..my Cluk-Ruk ships, for example, are 3d. They're also upwards of 20,000 polygons.

[Fyron]

So reduce the number of extraneous polygons...

[ August 17, 2003, 20:08: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Phoenix-D]

Not possible in Bryce. I'd have to- and will, eventually- re-do the entire set from scratch in another program.

[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
my Cluk-Ruk ships, for example, are 3d. They're also upwards of 20,000 polygons.

Those boxy ships are 20,000 polygons??? Geez, what did you do, go into millimeter detail on the gunports?

[Richard]

The next game will be SE:V. There will be no more games in the SE:IV series, even though patching and support will continue.