Official SE5 release date announced - September 12

[Q]

It would just have been nice to play once in a really huge galaxy where travelling from one end to the other would take very much time unless you use warp point manipulation to create interstellar highways.
More important than the maximum number of systems are however the maximum number of empires and the maximum number of units in space (in SE IV I always reach the limit of 20000).

[mrscrogg]

Q , if that's what interests you start SE4 with no connecting warp points , develop warp point manipulation and go from there

[Q]

No, the warp point opening to create abbreviation would just be a small additional point, but the main thing is the huge galaxy, were you can expand and meet new races even in a very late game.

[Raapys]

While I agree that would be nice, for single-player I've to say that the game is already way too slow to process turns with the current max number of AI's and star systems once you're 100+ turns into a game. If the AI in SEV is better, it most likely uses even more CPU time to process each player.

I think the better solution would be to actually make large star systems that take some time to travel through, and in which you could discover things, i.e. you don't know everything about the system as soon as you enter it.

[Gandalf Parker]

Raapys said:
While I agree that would be nice, for single-player I've to say that the game is already way too slow to process turns with the current max number of AI's and star systems once you're 100+ turns into a game. If the AI in SEV is better, it most likely uses even more CPU time to process each player.

Actually thats one of the things which has kept the game on my machine. Games with long thinking time is good for me. Otherwise I would never get anything else done. Just think how productive I would be if SEV supported 1000 stars and 100 AIs.

Everything has its pros and cons

[mrscrogg]

I had thought I had heard that SEV was to have the ability after you have conquored your own galaxy to invade another or have it invade you

[Captain Kwok]

You pay maintenance for units in SE:V so you might not just let them accumulate willy-nilly.

[Q]

Captain Kwok said:
You pay maintenance for units in SE:V so you might not just let them accumulate willy-nilly.

Please tell me that this can be modded to zero maintenance!

[Noble713]

Q said:

Please tell me that this can be modded to zero maintenance!

Why would you want to do that? 0 maintenance isn't very realistic. It allows you to accumulate substantial military capabilities without paying a dime for them.

[Captain Kwok]

Q, in playing myself I haven't really felt any extra micromanagement with unit/facility maintenance. But ofc, it is completely moddable.