SE5 Demo Bug Reports & Annoyances/Requests

[RonGianti]

Just a general question about some of these bug requests:

Whats up with the Alt+tab? It seems like a number of issues revolve around the Alt+tab, but I cannot, for the life of me figure a reason why I would want to Alt+tab out of a runnning game?

It seems like a lot of people do it, so what in the world is behind the game, running in the background that you all are Alt+tabbing too?

[Phoenix-D]

RonGianti said:
Just a general question about some of these bug requests:

Whats up with the Alt+tab? It seems like a number of issues revolve around the Alt+tab, but I cannot, for the life of me figure a reason why I would want to Alt+tab out of a runnning game?

It seems like a lot of people do it, so what in the world is behind the game, running in the background that you all are Alt+tabbing too?

IRC, web browsing, text files to make suggestions, whatever. In SE4, it was nice to alt-tab away while waiting for the turn to process, especially for a very large game that could take a couple of minutes to process.

The answer to "the game has a bug" is never "you shouldn't have been doing that anyway".

[RonGianti]

Phoenix-D said:
The answer to "the game has a bug" is never "you shouldn't have been doing that anyway".

I was very careful not to say that, I was mearly curious as to "why" someone would want to do Alt+Tab.

[Suicide Junkie]

For most of us, it would be this forum, the IRC channel, a music player, and similar things.

Socializing while you play is the best.
It really takes the edge off of the longer turn times late in a game, and spreading propaganda about your latest turns in a PBW game to the enemy while you play it is always fun.


And, of course, when processing some of the big CarrierBattles turns, they can take two or three hours. Letting se4 chew on it in the background is infinitely superior to the game tying up your entire computer during "prime time".

[Captain Kwok]

Sometimes I want to alt-tab because I'm making screenshots or sometimes during turn processing I want to browse the forums (although that's not working) or sometimes I want to double-check an item in the data file when testing a mod etc.