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Forum: SEIV August 11th, 2004, 10:15 PM
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Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

Hehe - Money isn't an unnecessary element. It's crucial. One of the reasons Communist Russia fell and why a large portion of its military has defected or is sitting rotting in dry dock. As a...
Forum: SEIV August 1st, 2004, 11:39 PM
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Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">There's a reason that I'm an artist and not an engineer or programmer haha.

I dig your ideas. I think something like that would work very well and...
Forum: SEIV August 1st, 2004, 11:35 PM
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Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I stand corrected and apologize. Was thinking 100's of thousands of tons, and typed millions in my pre-coffee haze this morning.

actual size of the...
Forum: SEIV August 1st, 2004, 05:46 PM
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Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">My idea is just based on what we have to deal with in real life. the larger the ship, the larger the engine and more fuel we need. The basic concept...
Forum: SEIV August 1st, 2004, 05:43 PM
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Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And just because you want to build a 10 million story tower dosen't mean you can at our current technology level, no matter how much money you have....
Forum: SEIV August 1st, 2004, 04:59 PM
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Views: 216,281
Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

quick note on ship classes and ships in general:

I personally feel that a good chunk of the ship building process should be overhauled some. I do like the idea of being able to add in different...
Forum: SEIV July 31st, 2004, 05:39 PM
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Views: 216,281
Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The main problem with flavor text that I have is that it is exactly the same today as it was when I first got my copy of SEIV.

With randomly...
Forum: SEIV July 31st, 2004, 02:52 PM
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Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Pretty much any physical data concerning planetary data could easily be tied directly to game play.

Just for example:

Star type and A.U. will...
Forum: SEIV July 31st, 2004, 12:10 AM
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Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Thanks! Aaron and I are actually talking about the *possibility* of me doing some detailed race portraits for the game since I don't really do any 3d...
Forum: SEIV July 30th, 2004, 03:35 PM
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Views: 216,281
Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I totally admit that I'm anti-wormhole. But I'm willing to make concessions to the pro-wormhole crowed (mostly cause I'm hopelessly outnumbered haha)...
Forum: SEIV July 30th, 2004, 03:21 PM
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Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Zuh? [/b]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Open Space Empires IV and read the credits ...
Forum: SEIV July 30th, 2004, 03:14 AM
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Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

I am rather hoping that the whole Warp Point concept is ditched, with the exception of perhaps Star Gate type technology (ala Babylon 5).

With respect to Aaron, I personally feel that the Warp...
Forum: SEIV July 29th, 2004, 10:17 PM
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Views: 216,281
Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

...further thoughts
(I spend way too much time thinking about this stuff...)

</font> <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Communication lag times. This falls under the Space is...
Forum: SEIV July 29th, 2004, 03:47 PM
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Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

Digressing back to governors for a moment, I wanted to expand on that thought briefly.

Part of the idea surrounding this is a teird governmental system, that could be adapted and modified...
Forum: SEIV July 29th, 2004, 12:02 AM
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Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">hey Gorza, I've been in that position haha.

Right. The way around this imho is the use of governors. Right now, the way the game is set up you have...
Forum: SEIV July 26th, 2004, 04:45 PM
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Views: 216,281
Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

Yeah, it is kind of big, isn't it? haha. didn't realize it Last night when I posted it. Trouble is that's only a small portion of what I have in mind.

I think the biggest thing that I would push...
Forum: SEIV July 26th, 2004, 08:49 AM
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Views: 216,281
Posted By Shane Watson
Re: SE5, Tell Aaron what\'s on your Wish List

This is I would like to see in the new game:

First: Keep it turn based. If you go real time the game will lose a great deal of it's appeal. Real time games are fine for shoot'em ups for kids. But...
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