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Old September 16th, 2006, 05:46 PM
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First impression of the AI by switching all AI empires to human control after 50 turns:
They have enough resources and a lot of ships. However they seem a little bit lost with the reaearch. Too many projects that will take very long to complete. And there is a problem with ship design: Although they have combat sensors and use them in sats, they don't use them in attack ships, not even in destroyers. They will have a hard time against my ships with level 6 ECM and combat sensors!
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Old September 16th, 2006, 05:49 PM
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There are a number of known bugs and inefficiencies with the AI research and design scripts. It's something that I expect will be addressed in the next few weeks. I have a balance/stock mod that has already done some work in this area to help out.
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Old September 16th, 2006, 06:23 PM
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Note for those of you trying out the demo. If you find something that you don't like, or seems like it could be done better email Aaron and tell him about it!
Does anybody here think Aaron or anyone will change "major" features codewise, with the release at hand ?

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I don't know. As I understand it the SE4 Ringworlds and Sphereworlds were a fairly last-minute addon.

Plus there's always patches.
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Old September 16th, 2006, 06:52 PM
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No. But he can address a number of UI issues like the cargo screen and things of that sort. Aside from slot layouts, I haven't seen much complaints about the actual features themselves.
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Old September 16th, 2006, 07:03 PM
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...you got damage on the side where you got hit ...
Damage is directional... Slots still suck terribly though. Viva le SE3!
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I am a bit annoyed now by the construction layout.

I am trying to get it exactly like SEIV with facilities selected as I believe this is the best view (well at least for me with my gameplay style). I also used to like switching over to value view, so I know what resource buildings to build where. I find it annoying to look at each planet seporatly.

I so far have name / status icons / under construnction / facilties / max facilities / move to.

It is annoying that there is not the blue box on the galaxy view or even a blue box with a number, or best of all, in a unused area, it just says. I really want to have time remaining as a field, but there is not any room for it . Are facilities in the thousands for show, or will some actually take up diffrent space? if so, cant we have another field being facility x/x so it takes up less space.

anyway... that was another ranting by wil!
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some things I dont like... levels of ships, they seem to be in alphabetic order rather than order of how good they are, and it gets confusing as when you research them, if for example you take a top destroyer has more hull than a low destroyer.
You can fix this horrible, horrible blunder in Empire Options. Alphasort can be turned off for both components and hulls. Also, it can be fixed more permanently in Settings.txt. I suspect that almost every mod will turn off the crappy alphasort...
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@ fyron - so it is best to evanly put everything :S I thought the only thing that mattered was A I O, I didnt realise that there was a diffrence on position... He riped the combat engine right from starfury! anyway, I like it a bit better now, but it will take some getting used to.
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I really want to have time remaining as a field, but there is not any room for it .

Try clicking on the icon column header to reduce icon size; it often gives just enough room for another column.

Are facilities in the thousands for show, or will some actually take up diffrent space?

Like everything else Aaron adds, it isn't very well used in the stock game... but mods can make great use of variable sized facilities.
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