Official SE5 release date announced - September 12

Captain Kwok · #1 September 9th, 2006, 09:48 AM

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

Q · #2 September 9th, 2006, 11:08 AM

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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 · #3 September 9th, 2006, 02:28 PM

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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!

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 · #4 September 9th, 2006, 02:52 PM

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

Q · #5 September 9th, 2006, 03:03 PM

That is good to hear.
Why introduce maintenance for units, if almost everybody is complaining in SE IV that fighters are too weak in later game, dones are almost useless and satellites offer only limited protection for planets. The lack of maintenance was the only real advantage of these units.
If you pay maintenance anyway, why not building only ships??
And if I don't care about one thing in a game like SE it is realism ! It is only the question what makes the game more interesting.

Captain Kwok · #6 September 9th, 2006, 03:17 PM

Although that is assuming that things have remained the same from SE:IV...

AMF · #7 September 10th, 2006, 09:05 AM

Ok, so...all the hype for SEV indicates that it is much more 'mod-friendly' than SEIV. My question then is this: those of you who were playtesters, have y'all made mods yet, and is the hype true?

And...who's gonna have the first mod? is there gonna be one right out of the gate?

Just wondering.

AMF