Will There Be One More Patch?

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Roanon:
A lot of people have said that for MOO III too...

IMHO, it's very hard to compare the desaster that was/is MOO3 to SE:V. Why? Well, MOO3 was developed by a TOTALLY new dev team that as far as I know did not work on the original MOO2 (Or the MOO Original) What's worse is that I'm convinced that many of the MOO3 Dev team never played MOO2. (this is really evident in the total lack of continuity between the two games)

Aaron is the primary designer/programmer for all the SE games, and he is working on SE:V with the full knowledge of it's history, and no doubt has his own ideas as to where he wants to take this series. But unlike MOST game dev companies Aaron also listens to the end-user and goes above and beyond reasonable lengths to please his fans. (aka customers)

Stop worrying about IF SE:V will be good and start feeling the excitement of what will the next game in the Space Empires Universe. The future will come fast enough, trust that Aaron will make SE:V the best that he possibly can, and know that he has heard many of your heart felt wishes for SE. And finally, trust that the beta testers will help to improve the game even more, because as it has been in the past, Aaron will most assuradly select his beta testers from amoung you the fans. And if the fans don't know what they want then I don't know who does.

Sorry was I ranting again? I digress, sometimes when I see SE and MOO3 refered to in the same thread it realy grinds on my nerves.

Nuf Said, Cheers!

[Roanon]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
I digress, sometimes when I see SE and MOO3 refered to in the same thread it realy grinds on my nerves.

LOL. I can understand this, very unsettling to think about MOO3 and then about *any* other game .

Anyway, we will have to wait a long time for SE V - and it's always better if expectations are not too high, disappointment will be less likely then. I really do not think SE V will be a complete catastrophy like MOO3, but as Geo mentioned there will be many dislikings, some even just because of the differences to SE IV.
Acceptance will be better if expectations are less close to that SE V will be the optimum game perfectly tailored to everyones tastes and needs - which is impossible. Reality will kick in and there *will* be features missing, improvements to be desired, and bugs to be patched.
I just prepare for the average and will be very happy if it turns out to be better

[Suicide Junkie]

In the meantime, SE4 mods!

I can't wait till these big school projects are over with, and I can finally get back to working on an update for P&N and get my new mod finished.

[Khemul]

I'm new here but I am looking forward to SEV. I'll wait till it comes out to pass any judgement. But for now I must agree that the mods need updating

As for the Moo3 comparison...Bah.
Speaking as someone who kept up with Moo3 from the beginning...I heard about SEIV after it was clear Moo3 was dead so I am rather new. But I do not think its failure applies here at all. (I'll avoid the rant I usually do with Moo3)Moo3 Alpha was an overly ambitious game that got its development team fired. The current release of Moo3 was built overtop the alpha Version by a team who did not understand half the coding and cut most of its features. After a weak attempt to fix the game it was abandoned. It on the other hand is a perfect example of what not to do when making a game

[ March 04, 2004, 15:25: Message edited by: Khemul ]

[spoon]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
1. We won't see another patch for SEIV. If there were any "earth shattering" bugs in 1.91, he would do another patch. But if there were any, we would have heard of them by now.

Isn't there an Out of Memory crash bug with this Version, or is that just hearsay?

[Baron Grazic]

Originally posted by spoon:

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
1. We won't see another patch for SEIV. If there were any "earth shattering" bugs in 1.91, he would do another patch. But if there were any, we would have heard of them by now.

Isn't there an Out of Memory crash bug with this Version, or is that just hearsay?

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Yes, I've encounted that, but only in the simulator, so it can be worked around (ignored)

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I am going to send this suggestion to Aaron for SE V, but I wanted to run it by you guys first.

Have a "One per Empire" Requirement ability so that when modders build a special facility they can set it up as a ONE TIME only facility.

An extra File system for adding such things as Nomadic races, or space monsters that the game can then be set up to use X amount of in a game much like the Neutrals are set up now.

Addressable Tech.
Basically you add one Racial trait, say Neutral Tech to the racial trait file.

This Neutral tech will then use the file Neutral Tech in the Tech Area folder. It will have a special ability that will tie into the General Settings for each race with a specific number that will then give that race access under Neutral Tech to any number of sub techs or components that share that races unique ID number.

For example:
Neutral 1 - has a unique ID of 1
Neutral 2 - has a unique ID of 2

In the Racial trait both races are set up to use the Neutral Race Racial Trait which gives access to the Neutral Race Technology.

Under Neutral Race Technology each races Unique ID number will give that race access to any component, facility, other that also has the Unique ID number.

So Neutral 1 will have access to any Component or facility that shares its unique ID number.

Neutral 2 will have access to any component or facility that shares its unique ID number.

But both share the same racial trait and TechArea tech that separates them out by their Unique ID numbers.

Any one read this?