Will There Be One More Patch?

Roanon · #1 March 3rd, 2004, 07:15 AM

If "massive improvement" for SE IV -> SE V just means 3D combat and other eye candy, he can keep it.

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 March 3rd, 2004, 08:03 AM

he's made good games so far. good track record.

Fyron · #3 March 3rd, 2004, 08:06 AM

SEV will be to SEIV as SEIV is to SEIII.

narf poit chez BOOM · #4 March 3rd, 2004, 09:09 AM

i'm not trying to raise or lower expectations, i'm just saying se3 is good, se4 is good, se4g is good and therefore, se5 will be good.

Atrocities · #5 March 3rd, 2004, 10:52 AM

SE V is the only gane that I would pre-order a year or two in adavance.

Atrocities · #6 March 4th, 2004, 02:29 AM

I am going to send this suggestion to Aaron for SE V, but I wanted to run it by you guys first.

Have a "One per Empire" Requirement ability so that when modders build a special facility they can set it up as a ONE TIME only facility.

An extra File system for adding such things as Nomadic races, or space monsters that the game can then be set up to use X amount of in a game much like the Neutrals are set up now.

Addressable Tech.
Basically you add one Racial trait, say Neutral Tech to the racial trait file.

This Neutral tech will then use the file Neutral Tech in the Tech Area folder. It will have a special ability that will tie into the General Settings for each race with a specific number that will then give that race access under Neutral Tech to any number of sub techs or components that share that races unique ID number.

For example:
Neutral 1 - has a unique ID of 1
Neutral 2 - has a unique ID of 2

In the Racial trait both races are set up to use the Neutral Race Racial Trait which gives access to the Neutral Race Technology.

Under Neutral Race Technology each races Unique ID number will give that race access to any component, facility, other that also has the Unique ID number.

So Neutral 1 will have access to any Component or facility that shares its unique ID number.

Neutral 2 will have access to any component or facility that shares its unique ID number.

But both share the same racial trait and TechArea tech that separates them out by their Unique ID numbers.

geoschmo · #7 March 4th, 2004, 02:43 AM

My predictions, I have no direct knowledge other then being a beta team member and long time fan:

1. We won't see another patch for SEIV. If there were any "earth shattering" bugs in 1.91, he would do another patch. But if there were any, we would have heard of them by now.

2. SEV will have many similarities to SEIV, but will be different enough that it will be a totally new game. It will require entirely new code instead of just a progression of patches to SEIV code, as was the case going from SEIII to SEIV.

3. Many SEIV fans will not like SEV because of the differences. Just like many SEIII fans did not like SEIV.

4. Many more SEIV fans will love SEV, and many new people will be brought into the game as well.

5. While a few will hold out for a while, most of the SEIV fans that don't like SEV at first will eventually give it a fair chance and they will grow to appreciate it as well.

6. A few will not, and will be very bitter about it and say all sorts of nasty things about Malfador and Aaron before finally giving up and going off to play some other game.

You can't please all of the people all of the time either