SE5 Demo Bug Reports & Annoyances/Requests

[Captain Kwok]

You should see the log entry I generated once building troop complements for 50 or so planets during 1 turn.

[bearclaw]

Thanks Will! that "will" be helpful. ahahahahahahhah
Problem is, this thread is already getting too large to read through. I tried. I really did,

I'm curious how the usage stats for this and other forums (se.net and St1st) have increased since the Demo came out...

[Captain Kwok]

bearclaw said:I'm curious how the usage stats for this and other forums (se.net and St1st) have increased since the Demo came out...

I'd say the number of viewers at this forum has doubled, with posting probably 3-4x the recent average.

My own site has also spiked to nearly double the recent average of visitors per day. It looks like Fyron's site has seen the same jump.

[jowe01]

Dunno if it is a bug or WAD. I cannot seem to be able to bombard a planet with my beam frigates. They just sit above the planet and do not fire until combat is over although i have clearly indicated the planet as target. Has anybody experienced this, too?

[AMF]

Have you checked to make sure the weapons you're using can target planets? Certain weapons cannot, IIRC.

jowe01 said:
Dunno if it is a bug or WAD. I cannot seem to be able to bombard a planet with my beam frigates. They just sit above the planet and do not fire until combat is over although i have clearly indicated the planet as target. Has anybody experienced this, too?

[jowe01]

ok, by now I have played about 70 turns of the demo. I very much like the animated combat (although the interface is also somewhat tedious here). However, there seem to be so many bugs and shortcomings that i am a little bit worried how Aaron is ever going to get the game in any shape for the release. Just my main hick-ups:
1) Crash bugs. that's how i just "terminated" my game, no clue what caused them.
2) Diplomacy: just does not seem to work. I propose a treaty and specify it. Then I receive an information that my message had been sent. However, in most cases there is never any reaction from the AIs.
3)AI: Seems to suffer from the same weaknesses as in SE4 (here I am really disappointed - I thought building on SE4 was a good idea, so you did not have to start from scratch but could develop the AI into a new dimension of quality. This soes not seem to have happened), namely a lack of "memory" (always making the same mistakes) and an inconsequent behaviour (the AI attacks on of my planets in a system, the withdraws instead of attacking my other colonies with its much superior forces).
4) The really tedious UI with its complicated ways of doing things and its unsuitable proportions between buttons, legends, units and map. mentioned by dozens of others before me

Hopefully Aaron does n otmind working 24h a day...

[Blade W]

Yea, my greatest disappointment in SE:V the AI behaviour. Based on the demo experiences it isn't much improved since SE:IV, although a turn based game mostly for single player, where a good AI guarantees a high replayable factor.

[jowe01]

[quote]
AMF said:
Have you checked to make sure the weapons you're using can target planets? Certain weapons cannot, IIRC.

That was my bad, sorry. One of the rare occasions when I got diplomacy to work, I concluded an alliance which banned planetary bombardment. Only saw it later...

[wrongshui]

Hopefully Jowe the demo isnt a new build and most of the obvious bugs are already fixed.