Q&A Session with Aaron Hall. (Offline Edition)

[Ed Kolis]

Do you really mean PST? That's GMT-8, but we're on Daylight Savings Time, or PDT, which is GMT-7 now, so that might be a bit confusing for people in the US...

[David E. Gervais]

11:00am to 11:30am PST (Pacific Standard Time) California time (Aaron's time) GMT -12:00
2:00pm to 2:30pm EST (Eastern Standard Time)Montreal, NY Time (My time) GMT -8:00

and..

6:00pm to 7:00pm PST (Pacific Standard Time) California time (Aaron's time) GMT -12:00
9:00pm to 10:00pm EST (Eastern Standard Time)Montreal, NY Time (My time) GMT -8:00

I hope this helps clear the time zones thing.

Cheers!

[TerranC]

11:00am to 11:30am PST (Pacific Standard Time) California time (Aaron's time) GMT -12:00
2:00pm to 2:30pm AST (Atlantic Standard Time)Montreal, NY Time (My time) GMT -8:00

and..

6:00pm to 7:00pm PST (Pacific Standard Time) California time (Aaron's time) GMT -12:00
9:00pm to 10:00pm AST (Atlantic Standard Time)Montreal, NY Time (My time) GMT -8:00

I hope this helps clear the time zones thing.

Cheers!

Montreal and New York uses Eastern Standard Time. Halifax, New Brunswick, and possibly Maine uses Atlantic Standard Time.

[David E. Gervais]

Ahem, thanks to the "Edit" function, I can honestly say that you have miss-quoted me my friend. :P LOL

Your turn to edit your post.

Muahahahahahaha Cheers!

[tesco samoa]

Hmmm trying to get the wording right,

Will there be some kind of galatic council thing ??

Will there be the ability to send Messages to all players/ all partners/ all enemeys

Will there be different ways to view the maps. (Such as sphere of influence )

Will I get my sortable reports with the ability to filter the results/querry

Will there be a dipolmatic history report ?

hmm... cool idea... sorry for dropping it here... A automated momument creater... ( Say a big battle between two empires ) that square in space or the nearest planet gets a little momunment marking the occasion. Who thought who and what the losses where... Just pure RP.

Now to word that into a question. Add Will there be to be beggining of it

Well thats all for me

[Loser]

Could you ask him this, specifically, please.

"Is iy going to be possible to play the game without the mouse, or with only limited mouse usage? Can we navigate the lists and bring up windows with just the keyboard?"

[Ed Kolis]

No mouse? Careful, you might get Narf mad!

[Baron Munchausen]

Hmmm trying to get the wording right,

Will there be some kind of galatic council thing ??

Will there be the ability to send Messages to all players/ all partners/ all enemeys

Will there be different ways to view the maps. (Such as sphere of influence )

Will I get my sortable reports with the ability to filter the results/querry

Will there be a dipolmatic history report ?

hmm... cool idea... sorry for dropping it here... A automated momument creater... ( Say a big battle between two empires ) that square in space or the nearest planet gets a little momunment marking the occasion. Who thought who and what the losses where... Just pure RP.

Now to word that into a question. Add Will there be to be beggining of it

Well thats all for me

I have been periodically spamming MM in email with my suggestions, and one of my Posts was about 'In-game Communication' with most of these diplomatic ideas included in the list. He says that he plans to do something like this, but it's not actually implemented yet. So, requests for details are no use. But at least he sees the need for better communication between multiple players.

[tesco samoa]

oh yea one more

what options will be available for game setup

(ie. will their be the abliity to turn off and on options such as no tech trade, no analyzse ships, no ship trades.... cannot use colony tech from other empires... detail of Fog of war ... etc... Also will we be able to set what techs are available in a game and their cost ? without creating a mod each time we want to adjust something )

What scale will SEV be in comparisions to the other Versions of the game.

[tesco samoa]

hehe one more.

In the previous games of SE the weapons and combat have favoured beam weapons over missles and units. Will the SEV series continue with this or have you created more balance in the different styles and weapons that ships and fleets can use in combat. If so can you briefly explain the concepts of combat balance for sev.

Will mines be more usefull in SEV and if so how?


What game or style of game would you love to create?

And Last

Over the years I am sure you have had your share of crazy emails from distraut fans do any humours ones stand out that you would like to share with us ?