Do You Still Play?

[Makinus]

Keep in mind that i only played the SEV demos and not the full game:

I´ll keep with SEIV for the time being, it´s a more fun game and, most importantly: goes faster than SEV...

Based in the demos of SEV i think it´s a superb game, but the turn processing times are too big for my taste... i don´t have a top-of-the-line rig (only a 2.56Ghz Athlon/512mb Ram/256mb video card) and teh SEV processing times are too big for me...

So. i still play and will continue playing SEIV for the time being (at least more 2 years or so, until i get a better pc)

[Azselendor]

I just played a long game of SE4 (about 300 turns now), AI is still too easy, but I'm having a lot of fun seeing how many cloaked AI ships get vaporized when I blow up a star.

It gave me an idea for SE5 I'm gonna mail to aaron. Basically, to keep the game challenging, larger empires should be harder to control because of forces being stretched out too thin and subject to larger rebellions.

I would love it if a whole fleet and several planets suddenly broke away in open rebellion and posed a larger threat to me empire than one puny planet breaking away because I ignored their riots.

[Phoenix-D]

Actually that's modable in SEV. You'd have to base it on score, but it's doable.

Just involves making an event that checks the score of the various players, and if they're over a certain threshold increases the chances for rebellion. Maybe with a second event that triggers when a planet -does- rebel, to see if nearby planets go as well..