SEV Recommend? - Page 2

Suicide Junkie · #1 January 7th, 2007, 08:49 PM

Make it mostly tiny islands, some with small secondary provinces/moons connected to them. Maybe some hot, hostile star provinces.

Atrocities · #2 January 7th, 2007, 09:02 PM

At this point Dom3 has the better AI and is a really good game to play. However, SE V offers impressive 3d type space combat, and loads of depth.

PvK · #3 January 9th, 2007, 10:38 PM

SE5 adds some great new gameplay features to the series, in theory. In practice, the UI and AI and bug-lessness haven't caught up, so I'm waiting for lots of patch improvements before I try to really get into it. Meanwhile, I'm hoping it's a nice preview of things that will work well in future.

My guess is I will start wanting to play SE5 in about a year, assuming patches fix the UI, AI and other problems that can't be modded at Malfador's usual industrious rate. It also seems like very little effort was made to balance the stock techs (they seem far less balanced than SE4 even), so I expect a balancing mod will also always be wanted for SE5, but thankfully that task is already in capable fan hands.

Meanwhile, Dominions 3 is a solid release, and personally I like it at least as much as I like Space Empires. But it's a different kind of game, so not all SE fans will like Dominions (e.g. Fyron

).

PvK

narf poit chez BOOM · #4 January 10th, 2007, 01:44 AM

Hello, welcome back.

Wardad · #5 January 10th, 2007, 01:57 PM

Hi narf! Your always a funny criter.

I no longer have Internet, cable or TV at home.
I gave it all up for my cute little flexible yoga teacher.
I get to game once in a while.

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 January 10th, 2007, 10:48 PM

...Simple solution: Hook her on gaming. Once you're both geeks, you don't have to give up anything.

PsychoTechFreak · #7 January 11th, 2007, 11:10 AM

Thanks for this thread. I never looked closely at the other shrapnel titles, they looked more like worldwar titles for veterans to me. I was not aware of Dom 3 being a fantasy strategy game with magic. Very interesting!

So the AI is good for singleplayer gaming you say?

Wardad · #8 January 11th, 2007, 04:51 PM

Narf,

Not a chance of that. She has a violence phobia. Understandable though. She is Serbian and her family has suffered Nazis, Commies, Moslems, ethnic violence, and Bill Clinton.