SE5 progress

[Kana]

About beta testing...I'm sure the list will be long for the people who would love to be on that list...I was wondering what the chance would be for someone not in the 'inner circle' to be able to beta test when that time comes?

Kana...who has beta tested he's fair share of other games...

[Q]

Great news, thank you Malfador!

I especially like the tech requirement with the boolean evaluation. If I understand this correctly it would make it possible to research a component with two different approaches choosing "or" and creating technologies that are excluding each others.

One thing I would love to see for weapons is the lines:

Skips shield level =
Skips armor level =

Then you could create indefinite levels of armors and shields and weapons that penetrate them.

[Randallw]

Originally posted by Kana:
I was wondering what the chance would be for someone not in the 'inner circle' to be able to beta test when that time comes?

As I only have less than 200 Posts I know I am in no "inner circle", however I am regular in all my games and always give warning if I will be absent. I wish to give notice of my enthusiastic willingness to help beta test.

[minipol]

Who on this forum wouldn't want to beta test
Anyway, beta testing isn't that easy if you take it seriously. I did it once for a game and i remember it was quite tedious at times. Off course being able to play your favourite game before it's released is really great

And being a programmer, it was also fun for me to think how the programmers pulled off certain things.

As to what i want to see changed in SE5, 2 biggies:
* being able to assign one ship as the succesor of another in the design view so that you can upgrade all ships of type very easily without looking them up and clicking and clicking. All this clicking to upgrade prevents me from spending more time coming up with devious schemes to become supreme ruler

* lists should remember their position (some already do now)

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
The simplest solution would be to handle it like supplies are in SE4. Build a faclity to resupply with ordinance, or incorperate the ability into the resupply depots.

Definitely seperate the two abilities, though, for modding purposes if nothing else.

That's a good solution.

[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by Q:
One thing I would love to see for weapons is the lines:

Skips shield level =
Skips armor level =

Then you could create indefinite levels of armors and shields and weapons that penetrate them.

There's already something very similar to that - instead of indefinite levels, you specify various shield and armor *types*, so for instance you could have an Energy Shield which stops energy weapons 100% and a Matter Shield which stops matter weapons 100%... then you could define a damage type called Particle Beam which gets through each of those shields 50%

[Paul1980au]

SO who removed my Last post about forum members being given a link to beta test a demo Version of the full beta testing that the "inner circle" get - please put the post back it was a valid idea -

Those that arent on the beta test get the offer of a limited demo Version instead - it would get some interest and publicity for when the full Version is out ?