Vote: Who is still playing SEV ?

[frightlever]

When buying a new computer just buy whatever's cheap from an OEM with the processor you want (assuming you want Vista on it buying off an OEM is going to be the cheapest way to get the OS). Then upgrade the memory and grafix card. A thousand bucks should get you something with dual core, 2GB ram and an 8800 grafix card. The MB will be rubbish but you're not going to be trying to overclock it anyway if you're doing this on the cheap. It's the machine with everything tricked out to give you 10% more performance that's going to cost two grand.

Anyway, SEV... I haven't played properly for weeks but I usually try a game when IRM or BM gets updated. Still finding no challenge from the AI though so it's quite dull.

Since the demo was released I've railed against the UI so it's gratifying to see Atrocities admit I was right after all. Though TBH I'm fine with the UI now except for the clumsy filters. Which isn't to say I wouldn't still like to see a proper 2D system view and the option to have a square view to maximise the screen - yeah, just like in SEIV.

[Atrocities]

Since the demo was released I've railed against the UI so it's gratifying to see Atrocities admit I was right after all.

Huh?
I have gone back through my posts and can assure you that I have made no such statement. To the best of my recollection I have always stated that the UI has been the most definitively identified negative aspect of the game. Now that most of the bug issues have been addressed I am hopeful that following AI improvements, the UI will be polished. Priorities are what they are and bug fixes will always be at top of the to be fixed queue. UI issues are generally relegated to the bottom of the list of things that need addressing. But eventually they are looked at and in most cases taken care of.

I agree though, the filters do need work as they seem to be as you say rather "clumsy."

[Ragnarok-X]

Yes, i agree with AC, he never stated the UI is good as it is.

[Fyron]

frightlever said:
Since the demo was released I've railed against the UI so it's gratifying to see Atrocities admit I was right after all.

You would be hard pressed to find any beta testers (AT included) stating that the UI is excellent.

[Raapys]

Am I the only one who doesn't really like the new 3D system view? I see people complain about the UI all the time, but I can't recall other people mentioning the system view.

To me it feels really awkward; the camera is strange going back and forth but rotates to the sides(?), you never really get the entire system inside the window at the same time, the screen icons and such are obviously not designed to work with the top-down style( thus rendering it useless ), etc.

It's night to day compared with SE IV's excellent top-down 2D view.

[Suicide Junkie]

The SE5 system view isn't unusable, but it is certainly very wasteful of screen space.

SE4 showed who was present and how many ships they had, using only a 24x10 pixel area.
SE5 gives you the choice of illegible blobs at 50x30 pixels or gigantic blocks that blot out the view of multiple hexes.

We should bug Aaron to use 2D text, like Starfury had, instead of this huge, blurry 3D stuff.

[gregebowman]

Well, my first downloaded version of the demo had some errors on it, so I'm downloading another version of it. As long as my computer can play that, I'll be a happy camper. I'd love to be able to play Civ4, but it's taken me a year to get my computer working. I'll have to be patient for the higher requirement games.

[Yimboli]

@gregebowman: civ4 is definitely worth it!!!! havent tried the expansion though. I've spent hours playing civ4 over tcp with my friend across the country while talking on skype