Aaron Hall Spotted on SE4 Yahoo Group

[Ed Kolis]

http://Groups.yahoo.com/SE4

Check out some of the latest Posts... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

[Ragnarok-X]

the group does not exist, at least not at that url http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Raging Deadstar]

Indeed it doesn't.

This one does though http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

http://games.Groups.yahoo.com/group/SE4

I did a quick search for it

[AMF]

I had no idea such a group existed. Very exciting.

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
http://Groups.yahoo.com/SE4

Check out some of the latest Posts... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">

[Ragnarok]

A couple months until screen shots?! That would be great. Now to see if it will happen.

[Lord_Shleepy]

Aaron Hall on yahoo!!!!???

**** Squeals like a teenage girl at a Backstreet Boys concert ****

I only hope that I am deemed worthy to join such a dignified group. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Lord_Shleepy:


**** Squeals like a teenage girl at a Backstreet Boys concert ****

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">*Slowly steps further away from Lord_Shleepy...*

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by Lord_Shleepy:


**** Squeals like a teenage girl at a Backstreet Boys concert ****

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">*Slowly steps further away from Lord_Shleepy...* </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">*Pulls out a Megaphone*

"Put the Keyboard down and Step away from the Monitor!!!" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Ed Kolis]

What, no one remembers the Yahoo group? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
That was where all the seminal discussion of SE4 was started, all before the game was ever released and Shrapnel put up this forum for us to discuss it!
I wish I could remember more of the people who used to hang around there, but I was one of them http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Atrocities]

>SE5 development is going good! Lots of new features and changes. I've
>been getting a lot of great suggestions emails lately. Quite a few players
>want the game to be more like SE3 than SE4!

>Give me a couple more months and I should have some screenshots ready
>for posting.

>Aaron <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">OH HELL NO! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif Who ever you are play more SEIV and less SE III and you will learn that SE IV is far better than SE III.

[Combat Wombat]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">>SE5 development is going good! Lots of new features and changes. I've
>been getting a lot of great suggestions emails lately. Quite a few players
>want the game to be more like SE3 than SE4!

>Give me a couple more months and I should have some screenshots ready
>for posting.

>Aaron <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">OH HELL NO! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif Who ever you are play more SEIV and less SE III and you will learn that SE IV is far better than SE III. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I agree SE4 is alot better than SE3 and my hopes for SE5 are that it is a improved SE4 with 3d system maps and tactical combat and more modding options.

[Kamog]

Yeah, when I tried playing a game of SEIII, it just wasn't the same and I quickly went back to playing SEIV. Some of the features in SEIII were nice though: the detailed in-game help, the resizeable windows, the construction queues system, the ability to choose the races' technologies at the start of the game, etc. But SEIV is a much nicer game! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Raging Deadstar]

Of course there are better features in SEIII than in Gold (Kamog pointed out some of them) but SEIV is a superior game...

So I think what Aaron might have been saying is a Lot of Players want some of the features of SEIII Returned, and i agree partially, theres some good stuff that wasn't put in SEIV. I'm thinking thats what he means as even with these features SEIII wasn't as good. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

So hopefully we can mix the best of both, i better start stocking up on the pro plus tablets and my lucozade reserves http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[David E. Gervais]

Here's my take on what se5 will probably end up being like,..

Gameplay = SE:IV++
Features = SE:III+-, SE:IV +-, SE:V+

As you can see from these equations, the gameplay will exceed se4 and features will come from both se3 and se4 along with all new (super-duper) features unique to se5.

I think that all people who buy se5 will want to buy a second copy and place it in a safety deposit box. (for safe keeping.)

Here's a question, If a Limited 'Special Signed Edition' was made available, what would you people think was a fair price? (what? did another novel marketing idea just pop out of my head again? geeze, I need to find a cork. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif ) )

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[tesco samoa]

24.99 CDN for us canadians

[Ed Kolis]

Coming from an actual Malfador employee that sounds like a market survey... didn't we have one of those for SE4 Gold? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Anyway, I'd say whatever around $50-$60 US, assuming the regular edition is $40-$45 like SE4 is. (Sorry Canadians but I'm trying to be fair to the developers as well http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ) Would I pay for a special edition? Probably not though, unless it came with a free T-shirt or something. So take my advice with a grain of salt! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Gandalf Parker]

What? Price the sequal the same as the previous Version? Surely there would have to be a token raising at least. $5? $10 would be more usual.

[Raging Deadstar]

Although most likely it would be as Ed Kolis suggested, and SEIV Gold would drop slightly in price as it seems to be the way these days http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[clark]

It seemed, specifically, that elements of Research and Intel from SEIII will be incorporated into SEV. So there might not be a limit on the number of intel projects you can do, and you would be able to adjust how many research points you wish to place into each research project (as many as you wanted).

I think that would be a better alternative than what we get now with SEIV. At least for this aspect of the game.

[Ed Kolis]

Go check out the Yahoo group NOW... There is some exciting stuff Aaron posted re: SE5 modding on there... Can anyone say user-defined damage types? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Aiken]

Very interesting. Hmm, Requirements Boolean Operation sounds sweet, but single description for all lvls of component can be too limiting for modders http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[Fyron]

Why can't he just post here on Shrapnel? Screw Yahoo and their damned ads. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ June 13, 2004, 01:39: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]