SE:IV Gold vs SE5 Demo: Basic UI

StarShadow · #1 September 17th, 2006, 04:42 PM

Quote:

"Upgrade will sometimes add a number (12345) or a Roman Numeral (I, II) to the end of the name, but this isn't consistant. "

I've noticed that it is consistant (sort of), to me it's an interesting feature. If I make a ship and call it 'Dart Mk I', every time I upgrade it the 'I' increments to 'II' and so on. However any ship that doesn't have a roman numeral last, gets a random number, that needs to be fixed.

Phoenix-D · #2 September 17th, 2006, 04:45 PM

Not entirely true. A ship named Vomit A, on upgrade, turns into Vomit A II. I think it may be tied to the single-character thing at the end.

A ship named Alabama gets the 265657 thing. Some get none at all, which I really don't get.

Mephisto · #3 September 17th, 2006, 05:39 PM

FYI: The latest version has an improved ship report screen which displays informations about a component just like in the ship report in combat.

Phoenix-D · #4 September 17th, 2006, 05:52 PM

Will: the ship-design right click menu is there. You have to right-click on the Design tab. Same with the component window. Same with ships/planets/colonies. Just right-click the tabs.

Log screen: click on the tab above the icon. Combining reports would be very nice, yes.

Orders: Ooo, good idea.

System: you can turn off the grid in..empire options, I think.

Phoenix-D · #5 September 17th, 2006, 05:54 PM

Part 4:

Ship/Unit screen: SE5 displays bases in space and mothballed ships/bases in addition to the info in SE4's upper-left box. In SE4 you can display ships, units, and/or fleets. In SE5 you can do the same and also show enemy/allied items, but you can only do one at a time. You cannot, for example, show units and ships at the same time as in SE4. the layouts are similar but SE5's General tab has slightly less information.

Advantage: Nil. Improvements: Same as with the other list screens. There's a lot of wasted space on the right side- putting commonly-used options back into those boxes from the Layout and Filter screens would save time. Also, showing fleets should show the fleets, not the ships in the fleets. In games with extremely large fleets, the fleet display option will be all but useless.

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