Question on SE5

President_Elect_Shang · #2 November 30th, 2006, 11:47 AM

ROFLMAO

Sorry but that was too funny SJ.

SROFLMAO

mrscrogg · #3 November 30th, 2006, 02:01 PM

so for someone dense like me ,it's not like SE4 where you call up empires and pick one for human use - in SE5 you actually have to make a empire for your use and the AI will fill in for game use

Phoenix-D · #4 November 30th, 2006, 02:04 PM

For your first game, yes. After that you can save your empire file and use that.

President_Elect_Shang · #5 November 30th, 2006, 02:33 PM

I think there are various good reasons why Aaron did it this way. Most of which appear to be for the benefit of modders. Well, this is my current opinion since my experience is pretty much limited to modding and testing my own mod at this point.

Don�t feel dense, or if your going to don�t feel alone! You can have a seat here with me, and SJ can share the stories of my density�

Quote:

President_Elect_Shang speaking to Suicide Junkie:
Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That�s why I didn�t see the lines! Man now I feel dense! That one was right in front of my nose the whole time.

mrscrogg · #6 December 1st, 2006, 01:51 AM

Believe me , I've been viewing this site for three years and even though Ive learned alot compared to you guys it's like a human to a ant !

eddieballgame · #7 December 2nd, 2006, 02:34 AM

mrscrogg, I am sending an "rar" file (159 kb) of all the "stock ais". They have been saved as zero tech point empires & I also removed the password "MASTER". Just save each empire in the "SavedEmpires" folder & you can than choose the Races you want to confront or play.

mrscrogg · #8 December 2nd, 2006, 03:10 AM

thank you

Kana · #9 December 3rd, 2006, 02:07 AM

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eddieballgame said:
mrscrogg, I am sending an "rar" file (159 kb) of all the "stock ais". They have been saved as zero tech point empires & I also removed the password "MASTER". Just save each empire in the "SavedEmpires" folder & you can than choose the Races you want to confront or play.

We might want to post these in the mods download sections here and at spaceempires.net...

StarJack · #10 December 2nd, 2006, 09:34 AM

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President_Elect_Shang said:
I think there are various good reasons why Aaron did it this way. Most of which appear to be for the benefit of modders. Well, this is my current opinion since my experience is pretty much limited to modding and testing my own mod at this point.Don�t feel dense, or if your going to don�t feel alone! You can have a seat here with me, and SJ can share the stories of my density�

Taking the other side of this I think Aaron created an additional frustration by not having base races for the player to choose from. This confounded me for a few minutes. I noodled it out because of my experience with SEIV. Someone new to the SE series is likely to be frustrated for a longer period of time. I know you told me you don't read manuals but I do, and so do a lot of folks new to a game or game type, even manuals with teeny tiny print like this one. I don't recall seeing this mentioned in the manual or covered in the tutorial. He should have included at least one stock race, and offered some comment in the manual or tutorial about creating/modifying more. It's a small thing perhaps, but one of many small things with the game that explains the negative press and scores from fan sites. At least to me.

I'll keep saying it, without this site and some of it's members (like you!)

, this game would die a MOO3 like death.