SO BORED! I WANT SEV!

[wilhil]

I know what you are saying about turning a lot of people off, but at the same time there could be a warning when you turn it on that says:

this is a old build of space empires for the die hard fans that have been waiting for ages, please note that the game is still in beta, and there are a lot of unfinished features and changes that will make this diffrent from the real release.

age of empires 3 demo just came out, my healers traveled on their ar*es sideways, you cant delete buildings, you can tdo a lot of things, it is a buggy version, but they gave the fans something!

[Parasite]

Ever the contrarian, I would like the current SEIV games to finish. I don't want to play a SEV beta and then have all my strategies changed by one code update, or added feature. Imagine how powerful missiles could be, and then have point defense enabled. Aaaagh!

Of course "play testing" and finding bugs is different. I wouldn't mind doing that.

[wilhil]

exactly!

I am not stupid, I have done betas before where they change massive parts of the game before the release,

I just think it would be good to have a 200 turn limit, then have a .jpg or something that simply opens before the game saything, this is a pre beta demo for the fans who can not wait! massive areas will change and bugs you find will be fixed before the release.

something along them lines, it would be brilliant.

[atari_eric]

It sounds like you want an open beta - anyone can download and play a demo, as long as they promise to send bug reports...

[kerensky]

You know, looking at this screenie here , it looks like tactical ground combat over a large area will be possible. Maybe you could even select what part of the planet you want to land your troops on so as to be able to tactically take out ceratin facilities.....

[TurinTurambar]

The bummer is that SE:V and Kerberos' "Sword of the Stars" are probably going to come out at the same time.

And I have to wait for both of them.

Dammit.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Hey, I see a button for orbital bombardment on there! Woot! Calling in orbital strikes during tactical ground combat! Fantastic!

[Ed Kolis]

Hey, isn't that funny... the ship doing the bombing is a Xiati ship, even though the Xiati aren't IN Space Empires anymore...
Guess they wanted to keep it generic, so it did't look like the same race was doing all the bombing and stuff in the GUI
edit: well maybe they reused Xiati art for the Sithrak or Malfadorians (if Aaron was not kidding in that last chat when he mentioned them)...
Come to think of it, the Sithrak race portrait in Starfury was just a XiChung... kinda disappointing if you ask me

[Captain Kwok]

The Xiati are still in Space Empires V, although the ships being used are more along the lines of the Star Fury design.

The ship in the button is not an SE:IV Xiati ship either.

[NullAshton]

You know, Aaron might allow us to take the released racial pics from SE5, and place them in SE4, for you people who can't wait for it to be released. Simple matter of copy and pasting, then trimming the picture down a bit...