Q&A Session with Aaron Hall. (Offline Edition)

[David E. Gervais]

Just a quick note, the questions you post here will not be asked during the chat sessions, I will be compiling them into a Q&A (with all the questions and Blank spaces for the answers) I will then send this batch of Questions to Aaron who will answer them at his leisure and return the completed Q&A back to me. I will then post the resulting file here for all to see.

Oh, and remember this is a Q&A not a wish list, so post your 'wishes' in that 'other' thread.

Cheers!

[Alneyan]

Alas, this chart confirms the time I had expected for my own session, and I won't be able to get there (at least, I managed to figure out the time for my zone without being fully confused).

So my questions are as follow:
- Will the construction rates "stack"? That is to say, will any excess carry over to the next item in the list, or will it be "one queue element per turn" as in SEIV? For example, will you need two turns to build two ships costing 2,000 minerals at a 4,000 minerals spaceyard, or a single one?
- Will the dynamics behind Stellar Manipulation be changed with SEV?
- As mentioned before, would it be possible to have a few details about the script system?

Thanks!

[csebal]

While i'll try to be Online and ask this myself, but it is possible i'll not be able to make it, so heres my question:

- Will the game have an option to save smaller, patch like savegame files when generating the new PBW turn? I'm talking about files, the client can use to build the actual savegame file itself, taking the previous turn's one, and applying the changes received to it. (Shameless feature request hidden inside )

[Renegade 13]

I also hope to make it, but just in case I have to work ( ) I'll post a couple of my questions here:

1. When will beta testing begin, and when are applications going to be available?

2. (The obvious question on all our minds) When is the approximate release date for SE5 (if there is one)?