What I Hate Most About SEIV

Mephisto · #1 November 8th, 2001, 01:47 PM

Mark your fighter group with a sentry order and everything is fine.

PsychoTechFreak · #2 November 8th, 2001, 04:29 PM

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Originally posted by [K126]Mephisto:
Mark your fighter group with a sentry order and everything is fine.

Thank you very, this brings the "F" button in Civilization back to my mind

Menschenfresser · #3 November 8th, 2001, 09:23 PM

I don't mind the slow turns so much because it gives me a chance to get a new beer or see a man about a horse.

But...

The AI is probably the biggest annoyance. I completely understand that no AI is actually better than humans, but come on...a little consistency (as Atrocities pointed out). I like to role play, as do many here, but it is hard, unless you really use your imagination, to explain away some of their actions.

Seems like the best ones are either ultra friendly or ultra mean. Ones in the middle, flip back and forth so fast they never get ahead.

The worst of all are the neutral empires. I have time and time again tried to help the little guys. Once I even built a sphereworld for one neutral, just for fun. I gifted it to them and they declared war on me several turns later. I've also tried to gift neutrals ships. I once gifted one neutral empire 20 dreadnoughts, so as to be a heavily militarized buffer zone, but the next turn all the ships were gone. It was a full tech game, so they had nothing to gain other than resources by scrapping them. Stupid.

tesco samoa · #4 November 9th, 2001, 09:28 PM

Sort Sort Sort.

Why can't we sort. Scrolling sucks.

How about a history file for intel.

Where was that supply base in system x 8 turns ago????

How about a retro fit all ships of this class button. ( If ships are not at bases they head home to be retro fitted )

And show all system wide abilities on the map.

I won't mention the combat OPPPPPPPPS just did

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Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!

taterbill · #5 November 10th, 2001, 10:07 PM

How hard it is to get a fleet to capture a defended planet in a PBW game without glassing it first... Arrgh!

Master Belisarius · #6 November 11th, 2001, 07:39 AM

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Originally posted by taterbill:
How hard it is to get a fleet to capture a defended planet in a PBW game without glassing it first... Arrgh!

Not very hard... at least to me!

I have conquered a lot of small colonies.

vreln · #7 November 11th, 2001, 09:03 PM

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Originally posted by Master Belisarius:
Not very hard... at least to me! I have conquered a lot of small colonies.

Can you post a recipe, please? I've made it work, but neither reliably nor gracefully. Suppose I'm moving in with a fleet containing both attack ships and loaded troopships -- what orders do I give? What settings? Do I break up the fleet, or keep it together? Any pointers would be appreciated.

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Not *that* button!