What Will Happen To SEIV

[Loser]

I'll still play Se IV, I'm thinking.

Unless everything translates.

I doubt we'll be done with the Play by Committee game when SE V comes out.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Barronosod:
What a wonderfully rich community you guys have here. I truly wish I'd been a part of it longer, I just got SEIV yesterday. The prospect of everyone moving on in a year or so is a bit of a bummer, but such is progress.

Possibly half of the (Online, vocal) SE3 community left when SE4 came out, because in some ways it was a radically different game. Some of them converted after the game was out for a few years (myself being one of these). With a real time combat engine, SE5 may well be just as different from SE4 as SE4 was from SE3. Who knows what will happen. Those that remain will just move to the SE5 forum and it will be business as usual...

[Barronosod]

Fogive me Loser, but I'm curious... what is this play by committee?

[PvK]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
What do you think will happen to SEIV once SE V comes out? Do you think people will continue to play it or pretty much right it off and stick to the new?

I expect SE V will have a period of wierdness after release. As in, I wasn't really entirely happy with SE4 until SE4 Gold. Most SE4 players will of course give it a lot of attention, and different people will like or dislike different things. I think there will still be enough people playing SE4 to find new PBW games probably for as long as PBW continues to offer it. Are there not still diehards playing pre-Gold SE4 on PBW?

Of course, you are invoking the annoying term "people", which suggests maybe you are interested in herd behaviour, and not just in whether there will be enough players for games.

I for one am hopeful that people will continue to play SEIV as it is a great game. I know that many of the PBW game will more likely than not continue through to there conclusions, however no new games will start.

I'd say you're wrong that no new games will start. Unless again, you are exaggerating out of concern for what "people" will do, meaning some sort of herd.

We all have invested a huge amount of time into SEIV and I am sure we will all do the same for SE V. But turning our backs on SEIV, something I do not want to see happen, would be a crime in my opinion. Then again I could be wrong an no one really asked me so there.

Why then do you (if I'm not mistaken) periodically create such threads where you talk about SE4 "dying" and such concepts? Seems like counterproductive populist pessimism to me. No?

PvK

[Alneyan]

PBC (Play by Commitee) is a board-forum SEIV game. So, you play as an officer of some rank or as a high-ranking civil servant (up to a System Lord, ruling over a system), within the human Empire played in this game. If you want to do *something*, you will be sending your orders to SJ, who handles the actual SEIV game.

For example, Loser is the Minister of Science and is responsible for... well, science. He has been writing quite a lot of tech reports about the discoveries of the Republic, as you can see in this thread.

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
.. With a real time combat engine, SE5 may well be just as different from SE4 as SE4 was from SE3.

What? Where did you hear that SE5 was going to have 'Real-Time' Combat? The only thing about a Real-Time Engine that has been mentionned is that SE5 will be using the Starfury Engine. (As in a 3D Display rather than using the same old 2D Display found in SE:IV)

But in all honesty, regarding if SE5 will have 'Real-TIme Combat' or not, that might be a good question for next Friday. Or to post in the #Se4 chat thread.

Really Fyron, don't start rumors, SE:V will simply be SE:IV Platinum with a complete graphics overhaul.

Cheers!

[ August 06, 2004, 10:42: Message edited by: David E. Gervais ]

[Raging Deadstar]

Eventually SEIV will probably die out in terms of support, it's inevitable i guess.

But i Have SEIV Gold and Starfury and i will be keeping those games for the rest of my life. They are both great games and SEV will join them.

Even when SEV comes out maybe i won't play SEIV for a while, but there will be days when i decide to play another game of gold.

I Imagine it will feel slightly weird once it's released as there are bound to be a hell of a lot of new stuff to discover. But even if there are features we really dislike we all know somebody will start modding straight off the bat

And i'm pretty sure this community will survive, It will probably just trnasfer itself over to the inevitable SEV forum

[Chronon]

Considering the quality of the artwork that I've seen so far, the way in which Aaron is integrating our comments into the game, and what I've heard about the 3D displays and combat, I imagine that I'll be switching over to SEV exclusively once it comes out.

I hate to say it, but 4x games have needed to go fully three-dimensional for a long time. Space is, after all, three dimensional (even more, really, but three is good enough for game purposes). Ascendancy did it, and looked great doing it, but unfortunately the rest of the game was pretty shallow. MoO3 failed miserably, Stars! Supernova never got released, and all the other 3D space games are fully RTS mission-based games like Homeworld. If SEV retains the strategic depth of SEIV (I'm pretty sure it will) and seamlessly integrates real-time combat and a 3d universe (which will be the new stuff), it will be my dream game.

[Ragnarok-X]

I think SE 4 will still be around, mainly because i think SE 4 and SE 5 will be somehow "different" so there will still be reasons to play 4 and 5...

[Ragnarok]

I think SEIV will continue its life for quite some time after SEV comes out. I also think SEV will grow into the same thing that SEIV is to us all.

I know I will continue to play PBW with SEIV until I get the hang of SEV's mechanics and so forth and learn some stratagy for it.

I can't wait to see if it will be possible to have games like RTH1 and RTH2 on PBW with SEV.