Vote: Who is still playing SEV ?

Kamog · #1 March 3rd, 2007, 01:53 PM

I still play SEV, but my games tend to not last very long because after several hours of playing, I get tired of all the annoying things about the game: the crashes during processing, bugs, problems with the user interface, etc. It stops being fun. So I stop and don't play for a week or two. Then I forget about the frustrations and I start a new game, and repeat. Sometimes I go back to playing SEIV. With each patch, SEV gets better but it's still got problems that make it not-so-fun to play.

CaptainAL · #2 March 3rd, 2007, 02:21 PM

For some reason, the graphics gives me a headache. Guess I'm more of a straight strategy player. I will give it a shot on PBW when I have more time.

Ragnarok-X · #3 March 3rd, 2007, 02:50 PM

Thanks for the votes and comment at this point. I feel just liek Raapys does. Im waiting for a new patch, and thats what i ve been doing since the first patch.

Will · #4 March 3rd, 2007, 03:09 PM

Voted "haven't played for weeks", but it's really "months". But that's more due to major life changes than to the state of the game. I haven't had a period of time where I could just sit down for 2 or 3 hours and just explore the game, there have always been other things that took priority. I wouldn't want to join in on a PBW/PbEM game until I took the time with the game individually, especially since I haven't really played anything except the demo. I have the full game, and I installed and played for an hour or so when the first patch came out, but then I had to pack up everything and move. So, haven't come back to it since.

I actually think I might take a shot at PBWv2 in some of my weekend spare time someday soon. The major hurdle I had been facing is not knowing what needed to go into the design of an application like PBW, but I've been doing nothing but JSPs and servlets at work for the past two months, so I have a much better idea of how to go about things now. I'll post a new thread if I ever actually get that started. You will forgive me if I sneak in a few SEIV and SEV games before I do

Atrocities · #5 March 3rd, 2007, 03:17 PM

The UI makes it impossible to play. Sorry guys, but after many months of continuous play I have come to the conclusion that while the game is good, the UI makes it too much like a job and thereby to frustrating for me to play.

I should not get depressed playing a game, and regrettably SE V depresses me horribly. The damn UI is just so user unfriendly.

Ragnarok-X · #6 March 3rd, 2007, 03:22 PM

Heh, actually i thought about replacing weeks with months because i believe whoever didnt play in weeks didnt play in months either. But i decided doing so would be too rough.

aegisx · #7 March 3rd, 2007, 04:18 PM

I find the UI perfectly friendly and play in PBW games, good stuff

Xietor · #8 March 15th, 2007, 05:22 PM

SEV is an embarrassment. They made money on it, but marketed an inferior product. It is a shame it was not tested more and fixed before release. SEiv was good mp, but the AI is terrible.

But at least SEiv is playable. No game, calling itself a game, should take 5 minutes to do a turn. That is just absurd.
And on a computer that runs WOW with no lag issues too.

GuyOfDoom · #9 March 15th, 2007, 05:54 PM

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But at least SEiv is playable. No game, calling itself a game, should take 5 minutes to do a turn. That is just absurd.

What kind of TURN based games do you play? Any turn based game takes time between turns.

Yimboli · #10 March 15th, 2007, 06:05 PM

Of course all turn based games take time to process turns. Without trying to sound rude, I'm simply not sure what the point of your post was.

At any rate, I think Xietor is trying to say SE5 takes too long to process turns. I'm inclined to agree.

At least that's what I took from it.