OT: SEIV

[bone_daddy]

Personally, I think it's a great little space conquest game. Iused to play MOO II a long time ago, but when I started playing SEIV I put it out to pasture.

It's one of the few conquest games I've seen in which you can actually force an AI to surrender.

It's a great game, but like Dominions, you have to play it multi-player to realise how great a game it is.

I think the key feature is the research-ship designe-ship tactics cycle. Choose which technology to research, design your ships and create ship and fleet tactics to exploit your technological strength and minimise your weaknesses (and counter-act what your opponent has), and test the result in combat with fleets of dozens (or occassionally hundreds) of ships.

In some ways there is more micro than Dom2, because SEIV has much more economic infrastructure to build and manage. On the other hand, SEIV has some basic features like build queues and multi-turn move orders that make life rather easier.

Mark