Abandon SE4?Opinions:Space Empires 5 screen shots?

[PvK]

I noticed the "Intrepid" cruiser design shown seemed to be rated 1000 kT, and the components and armor seemed to add up to more than that.

[Captain Kwok]

PvK said:
I noticed the "Intrepid" cruiser design shown seemed to be rated 1000 kT, and the components and armor seemed to add up to more than that.

Nope, they add up to 1000.

[PvK]

I see "Cruiser (1,000 kT)" in the "Size" box, and then "Hull Structure" at "6475 kT" and "Armor" at "5380 kT", which add to 11,855 kT, no?

[Wade]

PvK said:
I see "Cruiser (1,000 kT)" in the "Size" box, and then "Hull Structure" at "6475 kT" and "Armor" at "5380 kT", which add to 11,855 kT, no?

Yeah. This needs clarification on the game. I hope that there is not much questionable/ambiguous information like this throughout the game. Newbies (customers and future fans) will be even more confused.

-Wade

[Captain Kwok]

How is it different from SE:IV? A cruiser of 500kT might have much more than 500kT of structure (i.e. hitpoints right?)

[Kamog]

I'm very happy to see that the component placement slots in the ship design do not have locations that depend on the shape of the top-down ship graphic.

Thank you Beta Testers for sorting out that one!

[Dejavuproned]

Kamog said:
I'm very happy to see that the component placement slots in the ship design do not have locations that depend on the shape of the top-down ship graphic.

Thank you Beta Testers for sorting out that one!

I think that this needs clarification, Kwok said that its the ship summery? So does that mean the actual design is still like starfury? Or is it back to SEIV style??

[Baron Munchausen]

Right, as with SE IV armor has much higher 'damage' tonnage than 'weight' tonnage. Mounts also give weapons higher 'damage' tonnage than 'weight' tonnage.