SEV DEMO IS OUT!

Noble713 · #1 September 16th, 2006, 08:51 PM

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Possum said:
I went to that url, www.bittorrent.com, and it was a subscription service, they want you to pay for it

Clicking on either "Download Bittorrent" or "Get Bittorent" should eventually redirect you to Download.com, which is totally free: http://www.download.com/BitTorrent/3...=dl&tag=button

I've never paid a dime to use Torrents. Sure it will pop-up a window sometimes when you use it but I don't even get those anymore (maybe that was mIRC with the annoying "DONATE MONEY!" pop-ups).

Possum · #2 September 16th, 2006, 08:56 PM

Yeah, OK, I got the free client, no clue how I wound up at that pay site last night.

Right, so I DL and install the bittorrent client, and it won't run. It does the "hourglass for 10 seconds and then nothing" routine.

Sigh. WTF ever happened to good old FTP?

Wade · #3 September 16th, 2006, 09:01 PM

I did get where I downloaded Bittorrent then doubleclicked to start the icon and nothing happened. I restarted my computer and tried again. Same thing happened. A momoment later several started opening from my many tries. There was/is some sort of lag.It still does this if I try now. So I guess the process was not that easy.

Maybe try utorrent.com.

wilhil · #4 September 16th, 2006, 09:06 PM

a feature that would be nice is the select multiple queues thing is a bit stupid...

it should be either you choose the mode like it is now, but then on multiple, clicking on the line should do the same thing as clicking the button on coloumn one.

having it the way it is is a waste, and maybe they should have it on multiple always by default as this allows you to select single planets, but easily do multiples...

hopefully you know what I mean

frightlever · #5 September 16th, 2006, 09:51 PM

Okay I quit for now. I've spent the last several hours trying to fall in love with the game but the interface is killing me. I am bitterly disappointed having played SEIV from almost the start right up til now thanks to mods like Star Trek, Devnull and Adamant. I had a lot of hope invested in five but what's done right is hidden behind multiple layers of frustration. To me there are some really obvious ways the interface could be fixed but if months of beta-testing hasn't turned this up then I'm not hopeful it's going to change. Let's face it there were things we didn't like about four that never got an official nod.

Get the interface right. It's basic. Being happy you can change some column settings is not, to me, an alternative to having the right column settings in the first place. And that's not even going back to the system display which is just horribly flawed - like we meet up to play a game of chess and I balance the board on a tennis ball. For kicks. I gotta eff off for now because I'm getting pissed off again. This game if released as is will be savaged by independent reviewers. So if you're not getting new players and you're losing old players like me then all you have left are the dedicated fans who can see no evil. How did you manage a year of beta-testing without fixing the system display?

See? Angry. Gone for a bit.

Phoenix-D · #6 September 16th, 2006, 09:55 PM

Give it time. There are problems, yes, but SE4 had its share of them as well. And SE4's UI is just as clunky in its own way (remember the screaming about disappearing right-clicks?)

MM does a good job in general, but interfaces are something he can't quite master, it seems. :/

frightlever · #7 September 16th, 2006, 10:01 PM

Hell yeah I'm giving it time. (I know I should be gone but it's 2am here and I'm wide awake AND sober for a change)(though there is that beer in the fridge... back in a sec).

I want the game to work and I cut AH as much slack as he needs but that doesn't mean I'm going to pretend the game is hot just because it knows how to slap on some lipstick.

Mephisto · #8 September 16th, 2006, 10:50 PM

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frightlever said:
Okay I quit for now...

Frightlever, please post Aaron about all the things that you don't like. I really don't want to sound like a wiseguy but nearly everthing that was said in this thread has been said in beta, too.

Fyron · #9 September 16th, 2006, 11:47 PM

frightlever said:
...if months of beta-testing hasn't turned this up then I'm not hopeful it's going to change... How did you manage a year of beta-testing without fixing the system display?

Please do not blame the beta testers for this...

Randallw · #10 September 17th, 2006, 12:02 AM

I tried out the combat simulator to see how missiles looked and as I am wont to do I started it a second time and discovered all the ships just sat there. I discovered that after a sim all the ships stay damaged rather than starting all over again. This means if you want to try something different you have to remove all the damged ships and chose all over again.