Is SEIV going the way of the dodo?

Black_Knyght · #1 October 26th, 2006, 11:19 PM

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Well, I have not stopped playing SEIV, nor will I. Whether or not others remain interested in the game, that's up to them.

I have not bought SEV because after playing the demo I can see no reason to. SEV just doesn't excite me.

If posts on SEIV are no longer welcome at Shrapnel, that's OK. I will be happy to post somewhere else.

I'm with you there, Artaud, though I don't think there will come a time that SEIV post aren't welcome around here. They just won't be commonplace anymore.

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It died about 1.5-2 years ago, really. A few things here and there, but not much. It's mostly been on autopilot.

I'd tend to disagree a little here, Fyron. While it did slow down a bit, there were a few serious efforts in Mods and shipsets during that time period.

Bear in mind, I'm not being critical of anyone.

Just noting that there was a lot of commentary by folks that they were not going to bail on SEIV, but suddenly now that SEV came out you can hear the crickets in the SEIV section of the forum...

Fyron · #2 October 27th, 2006, 03:04 AM

Compared to how thing were 3 years ago, the forums have been fairly dead this last year or two... As I said, there were a few things here and there, but not much. A couple mods, a couple shipsets.

Most of the people that said they wouldn't abandon SE4 happen to be old players, with perhaps not much left to talk about themselves. If more of an effort is made to make interesting new threads, I'm sure some of them will continue posting in them.

Atrocities · #3 October 27th, 2006, 07:11 AM

SE IV is six years old. It has enjoyed an unpresidented run of success in this nitch market we call 4x. It has outlasted all other 4x games to come along in the last decade or so and is still being played, modded, discussed, and hopefuly bought. But like all things good, they come to an end.

Combat Wombat · #4 October 27th, 2006, 11:09 AM

Invasion! for SEIV is still in development and has active games. Any PBW games started using Invasion! I will join.

http://www.secenter.org/Invasion052.exe

In fact I will be releasing a new version soon to correct some bugs found during the last PBW game.

Q · #5 October 27th, 2006, 04:13 PM

I think there is a great difference between forum post numbers and game playing acticity for SE IV:
For most of us SE IV is a well known game where you don't have to many questions anymore to discuss.
However I doubt that I will quit playing SE IV soon. I have my own mod, that I like, the game has no more major bugs and can handle large galaxies and huge ship/unit numbers. Even my largest games take only about 5 minutes for a turn to process at stardate 2500.0 or above.
SE V takes already 20 seconds for a turn processing at stardate 2402.0!

Artaud · #6 October 27th, 2006, 05:58 PM

Yeah, Q makes excellent points. There just aren't many questions I still have about SEIV.

I can tell the various mod makers how much I love their work (which I really should do more of), or I can post reports about my current games in progress, if somebody wants to read that stuff. Forums for some games have large sections for after-action reports.

I might try my hand at modding, so maybe I'll ask some questions about that.

Kana · #7 October 28th, 2006, 01:55 PM

Loved SEIV, but the mod possiblies for SEV, basically means that any mod effort in SEIV is for most modders is practically a waste of time. SEV will easily surpass what is SEIV at some point. There just need to be some effort on the part of MM, and the modders/players to get it there. SEIV will still have a following, as SEIII did and still does when SEIV was out.