Space Empires V post-mortem

[MarkSheppard]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Parker

Actually I like games with long processing times. It keeps me from starving, starving my kids, starving my pets, exploding my bladder, etc etc. In other words I need games that make my look up and look around at least a couple times every hour. I can check work-windows and such

The problem is that Space Empire's design as it is, ensues a lot of "Dead turns", where you're exploring solar systems at the beginning of the game, waiting for ships to be built (3 turns a ship), or waiting for your research to crank over, etc.