Question on SE5

[President_Elect_Shang]

Well, not being in the manual isn’t all that good; he should have at least mentioned it and/or that new players should use the quick start races. I agree with Fyron though that many of the new players in SE4 complained about the stock races. I can’t seem to recall the memories clearly enough to risk paraphrasing but I want to say the debates ran opposite these. As for us members helping to carry the game I can’t (and don’t want to) argue that either. I would like to say that the game supports itself; however, at this point there are still too many problems big and small. I think I’m painting myself into a corner but better to be honest. Members who are frustrated are going to have-to have faith that Aaron will patch the game and modders will generate toys galore to play with. All of that will make up for the problems now. That’s not a promise it’s a guarantee, just look at SE4 when it first came out to the final version and everything that was put out in between.

[Fyron]

mrscrogg said:
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

The only difference between the two games is that SE5 did not come with stock empire files. In SE4, it was usually a much better idea to make your own empire file, rather than use one of the stock ones.