What is the problem with SE5?

[President_Elect_Shang]

Oh wow Slick, no I wasn't offended. Maybe I tried a little too hard to sound neutral. I'm not trying to take sides or say anyone is right or wrong or anything of that nature. I am trying to understand why it is so bad. Call it a number of factors not the least of which is I don't seem to be having the same number of challenges/problems/crashes.

Uncle_Joe you are right I did want one thing that was more frustrating than all the others. I changed that a few posts ago because I haven't seen anyone who can answer the question as I posed it. It's down there in one of my posts, if you skim you will see it.

I hope this game will surpass SE4 and I have faith that it will. What can be done to make that happen? Any suggestions on how to fix the problems? So I don't want to offend anyone and please don't think your answer will offend me. I posed the question because I want to understand.

Edited in: Actually Uncle_Joe I am surprised that you totally missed the comment to open it up more. It's in the very same post you quoted. Read that post over and look at the last sentence.

[Uncle_Joe]

To be honest, that post sounded kind of snarky (as in 'no one knows how to read'). So, I just followed what you had originally were looking for.

But at this point, most of the relevent issues have been mentioned already.

[President_Elect_Shang]

Uncle_Joe said:
To be honest, that post sounded kind of snarky (as in 'no one knows how to read').

Ha-ha-ha; no not me. I still don't read it that way even the third time; but no big deal. misunderstandings are bound to happen when you read what someone else is trying to say in words.

[se5a]

What slick said, and also to some extent spaceempires suffers from the same thing as what uncle joe said, "most of the buyers play single player"

[Azselendor]

The Reason why I bring up UI as being the key flaw in SE5 is that without an easy, intuitive interface, the overall playability of the game dies off rapidly. Atrocities touched upon most of the UI issues.

As for things like bugs, Aaron is directing his efforts onto that and the AI can be fixed by us --the we can form an angry mod and force Aaron to adopt it into the next patch.

Another issue I'll point out is something that SE5 inherited from Starfury is the lack of ease in developing new race styles for the game. If Aaron does an SE5 Gold, it must MUST have a ship-modeling program that exports to SE5.

[Santiago]

For me the UI mainly, but as others have said a lot of little things add up rather quickly.

As for Mods- Mods should enhance the playability of the game, not become the game.