Abandon SE4?Opinions:Space Empires 5 screen shots?

[Archonsod]

Ah, so its more like a stopwatch type system than an rts style combat?

My main problem with rts combat in a game with ship building is down to the AI. You spend hours kitting out a ship with top class technology and nifty abilities, only to watch it ignore them all in favour of charging towards the enemy firing. The only alternative is to micromanage one ship and watch the rest of the fleet suffer. If you can set it to autopause (or just pause when you need to) it should help.

Still going to wait for the demo though

[Captain Kwok]

You can have task forces within fleets so that can help improve the application of strategies to large groups of ships within a fleet.

You can also customize strategies for each class of ship as well.

[Renegade 13]

No one can be overly enthusiastic, since no one other than the beta testers knows what's coming! And we can't tell, for fear of breaching the NDA all beta testers had to sign.

[Artaud]

Quite true.

One thing most of us will agree on is that SE5 has some very large shoes to fill. IMHO the idea that SE5 will be so great it will make us set aside SE4 is almost too much to hope for.

We shall see.

I have seen some of the screen shots. They look quite nice.