Undoubtedly heard this before...

[jpowell]

My biggest frustration with SEIV is the lack of a comprehensive and SEARCHABLE manual. I think a lot of the concerns over bugs are simply a matter of not knowing how to do something. For instance, I think the AI cheats on cloaking. Specifically, I have stealth armor III on all my ships, and the AI race has no scanners or sensors mounted. Nevertheless, they find and kill my ships every time. Tried it again, this time with level III cloaking. Same thing: no sensors, but the AI finds me like a hound dog. Am I doing something wrong, or is the AI cheating? Also, how in the blazes do you construct a sphere or ring world? You need to assemble huge amounts of ship components that won't fit into a single ship! In fact, the only craft large enough to mount any one of the components is a space station. How are you supposed to collect the large number of parts needed? A definitive manual is direly needed.