Vote: Who is still playing SEV ?

Atrocities · #1 March 17th, 2007, 12:12 PM

I could only play it for about four hours before uninstalling it. However I hear they recently, as long ago as two years, released version 1.4 of the game that improved it greatly. Too bad I gave the game disk away to good will.

Any one here ever play Imperium Galatica II?

Fyron · #2 March 17th, 2007, 02:07 PM

IG2 is not worth your time or money.

Xietor · #3 March 17th, 2007, 06:48 PM

I will agree that Moo III ranks as my all time biggest disappointment, especially given how excellent MooII was.

It would be awesome if someday the random hero thing of mooII
could be incorporated into SE. That sort of event was exciting.

Phoenix-D · #4 March 17th, 2007, 07:41 PM

Well, keep in mind also that SR5's processing time is supposed to improve in the next patch and it isn't completely due to combat.

Raapys · #5 March 17th, 2007, 08:46 PM

There's two things messing up SE V's turn processing times, from what I can see. The first is the slow system ship movement( which was even worse a few patches ago ), the second is the combat calculations. The actual AI scripts, i.e. 'thinking', doesn't appear to take any time at all.

I don't understand why 32x time rate ( or 64x for that matter ) wasn't included in the game in the first place, though. And what kind of CPU does one need to actually take full advantage of the 32x mode in a regular-sized combat? Does all beta testers get four times as fast combat on 32x vs 8x mode?

Suicide Junkie · #6 March 17th, 2007, 09:18 PM

Well, the main problem is the whole idea that combat should be calculated at any "X-speed".

It should be processed at the speed of math.

Atrocities · #7 March 17th, 2007, 08:44 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
IG2 is not worth your time or money.

Oh I already own the game, but have never really ever played it. I played the demo, bought the game back in 2000 but cannot recall if I have ever installed and played it. I recall thinking that it was interesting but very limited in scope.

Fyron · #8 March 18th, 2007, 12:32 AM

Atrocities said:
Oh I already own the game, but have never really ever played it.

Well, you still have your time. Don't squander it on IG2.

AgentZero · #9 March 18th, 2007, 04:17 AM

IG2 was entertaining enough until I realized that my multiple mixed fleets were an utter waste of time, and that I was much better off building one massive fleet of battleships, or whatever the biggest hull size was, and just send them tromping around the galaxy, trouncing all in their path. The AI was pretty mediocre too, there's some 'plotline' in the game about an evil race building up a super fleet to come wipe out the rest of sentience in the galaxy & you're supposed to go about trying to form a grand alliance with the other races to defend yourselves, but by the time the story got to that point, I was well on the way to wiping out the evil 'super' race, and when their 'super fleet' spawned, my fleet was about 10 times bigger and wiped it out quite easily.

But if you've already bought the thing, I don't think it's quite as bad as Fyron says, there's at least a few hours of entertainment to be had from it.