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View Poll Results: Do you play SEV ?
No, havent played in weeks 37 49.33%
Each once in a while i start a game 26 34.67%
Damn man im playing all day ! 12 16.00%
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Old March 5th, 2007, 08:37 PM
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Once in a while I'll play for a while, wishing the interface wasn't a clickfest. Wishing I didn't have to play detective to figure out why a fleet with overwhelming superiority turned and ran this time. Wishing something as SIMPLE as a 'Systems to Avoid' filter was available on the Planets List menu so the send colonizer button could be used to simplify at least one aspect of this game. Wishing it didn't take several seconds to pull up a menu in large games, and minutes to process a turn. Wishing the person who wrote the game actually played it, to have a better feel for the UI and game play in general.

Mostly, that addictive pull to play 'just one more turn' that was ever present in SEIV just does not exist in SEV. I usually just quit in frustration because once again a perfectly healthy and well supplied and ordinanced fleet turns tail and runs instead of flattening a nearly defenseless planet. Or I get tired of waiting on menus to pop up, or turns to process, or a stupid AI decision makes me realize I'm playing against one of the most retarded AI's ever produced for a game.

And I wait, and wonder IF the game will get much better, and how many more months that will take. If it wasn't for a handful of helpful people on this forum, and the modders, I would've uninstalled the game right after purchase.
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Old March 5th, 2007, 08:59 PM
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Mostly, that addictive pull to play 'just one more turn' that was ever present in SEIV just does not exist in SEV.
I have been trying to think of how to best describe what I feel when I play SE V. Your comment nailed it. A sincere lack of JOMT Syndrome. In other words, the game doesn't produce a sufficient high. A failing that does not make this game an addictive product.
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Maybe its a product of age. I haven't had that syndrome since MOO2. I don't really attribute the lack of it to the games though.
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The game itself is a very good game. The UI though makes it a very frustrating game to play. However in time much of the UI issues will either be worked out or learned to be accepted as characters of the game and accepted.
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Yeah, I agree there Aegisx, I remember when I was a teenager me and my friend would pull all nighters playing games like Civ 2, Flashback, Shadowrun, General chaos, P.T.O., Syndicate wars, Starflight, games like that, and just never get bored. Even if we beat a game we'd get together the next weekend and start over. Even MOO2, we'd have 2 person teams, 1 researcher and 1 warrior each team. It just never got old. I think the last game that was that addicting was Alpha Centauri. SEIV was kinda like that. I was addicted to it, but only due to the mods, not to the stock, which really doesn't count since none of the others were modded.
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Civ 2 not modded? Oh my... moddability was one of its strong points.
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The MoO mod for Civ2 was classic. In some ways even more fun that the original MoO.
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