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Old April 1st, 2005, 06:28 PM
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Default Re: Malfadors New Site Is Up WITH SCREEN SHOTS!

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Why? It just reduces my options.
How so? I think it would increase your options. If you really need a particular tech RIGHT NOW, you could take the loss and get it faster, but always putting 100% into one tech at a time is no longer the only reasonable thing to do in a fiercely competitive game.
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Old April 1st, 2005, 07:03 PM
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Just got to look at the new screens. OMG!! They look awe inspiring!
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Old April 1st, 2005, 05:18 PM
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Default Re: Malfadors New Site Is Up WITH SCREEN SHOTS!

Somehow I missed that. Hmm, I wonder if there will be facilities that reduce the maintenance cost of other facilities?
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Decent eye candy, promising screenshots.

Typo: In the ground facility screenshot (lower right, 8th of eight shots) the word "Ordinance" should be "Ordnance" (no "I"), meaning "weaponry". Ordinance (with an "I") is a municipal regulation.

Thoughts: More complex/detailed game means either more micromanagement or more use of AI ministers, which will probably be much less effective than human players. More options makes it harder to program competent AI functions. I hope MM provides players with more "hooks" into the AI, so talented modders can take up the slack.

It may also take more post-release testing and patching to get the game into an "almost right" state comparable to SEIV Gold's v1.91.

On the other hand the designers seem to have planned some nice features for the game; with luck most of them will actually be implemented.

So overall I guess I'm hopeful, but wary.
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Default Re: Malfadors New Site Is Up WITH SCREEN SHOTS!

Actually, that ship might be a space-borne colony, and as such needs ordinances
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Actually, that ship might be a space-borne colony, and as such needs ordinances
"Endless" ordinances?
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You know how bureaucracy is...
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i think that having graphics is selling out. I was really hoping that sev was going to be a pure command line type of game. Maybe different colour on the fonts but thats it
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Typo: In the ground facility screenshot (lower right, 8th of eight shots) the word "Ordinance" should be "Ordnance" (no "I"), meaning "weaponry". Ordinance (with an "I") is a municipal regulation.
It isn't even in beta yet, give Aaron time!
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Don't hold your breath on ordnance... Aaron armed ships with proclamations and laws in SF too...
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