Should I buy SE5?

President_Elect_Shang · #1 February 13th, 2007, 12:17 AM

The Good: The SE5 AI is more moddable and theoretically should be able to give a much greater challenge. In fact it should be able to give a custom feel per species with custom this and that and so forth.

The Bad: Stock AI sucks; worse than SE4 Stock AI in fact!

The Ugly: Other than it being a pink colored font? Which is pretty darn ugly! Only Kwok, myself, and one other person whom I am not too familiar with is working on the AI at this time and given the shock factor [of looking at the files for the first time] it will be only us three for a while.

Suicide Junkie · #2 February 13th, 2007, 12:35 AM

Don't forget this key fact:
PBW supports SE5 games, so you can conveniently play against competent opponents.

Fyron · #3 February 14th, 2007, 05:46 AM

President_Elect_Shang said:
"Only Kwok, myself, and one other person whom I am not too familiar with is working on the AI at this time and given the shock factor [of looking at the files for the first time] it will be only us three for a while."

There are quite a few over on spaceempires5.com... even a IRM mod beta that is available for play, with improved AI.

President_Elect_Shang · #4 February 14th, 2007, 11:06 AM

Ahhh... spaceempire5.com? I see that is the site I don't go to. Maybe I should check it [again] after all.