Vote: Who is still playing SEV ?

[Xietor]

SEV is an embarrassment. They made money on it, but marketed an inferior product. It is a shame it was not tested more and fixed before release. SEiv was good mp, but the AI is terrible.

But at least SEiv is playable. No game, calling itself a game, should take 5 minutes to do a turn. That is just absurd.
And on a computer that runs WOW with no lag issues too.

[GuyOfDoom]

But at least SEiv is playable. No game, calling itself a game, should take 5 minutes to do a turn. That is just absurd.

What kind of TURN based games do you play? Any turn based game takes time between turns.

[Yimboli]

Of course all turn based games take time to process turns. Without trying to sound rude, I'm simply not sure what the point of your post was.

At any rate, I think Xietor is trying to say SE5 takes too long to process turns. I'm inclined to agree.

At least that's what I took from it.

[Xietor]

I play tons of turn based games, and none take the time SEV takes. In fact, even SEIV does not take nearly as long. It is obviously a bug that has not been fixed prior to release.

I have played about every good turn based game that has come out in the past 15 years, going all the way back to vga planets, masters of might and magic, and the original civilization.

[GuyOfDoom]

It's clear there is still a processing lag with the AI that hardly makes it the worst game ever, or a total ripoff.

[Xietor]

It is embarrassing it was released prior to making the fix that would allow the processing of turns to take place much faster. In my honest opinion, the game is unplayable with the time it takes to process a turn as things stand now.

I am not slamming the game itself, as i think it will be a worthy successor to IV once that glaring bug is fixed.

[Fyron]

Xietor said:
In fact, even SEIV does not take nearly as long.

It is a non-sequitor to compare SE4 and SE5 processing times when combat occurs (not to mention every other TBS game with non-RT combat). There is nothing at all comparable between a simple turn-based combat system and a real time combat engine. Real time combat (in SE5) has on the order of 20 rounds per second of combat time to deal with. Compare that to the simple 30 rounds of SE4, the non-rounds of Civ/GalCiv1 simple att/def calculations, etc. Comparing to something like Rome: Total War has merit (though its combats are an order of magnitude less complex than SE5), but not anything with simple turn-based combat.

Could it be faster? Yes. Is Aaron working hard to make it faster? Yes.

[Captain Kwok]

Fyron, you forgot to add "Is it at least 4x faster with the upcoming patch? Yes." in your comments.

[Kamog]

4x faster with the next patch? That's excellent.

[Suicide Junkie]

The best games of SE4 take over an hour to process for a hearty battle.