What now????

[Jochen Schmidt]

Well,

flame me or not.

After playing like a maniac, i see, that this game is not finished. The Ai not only need improvements, it is still in need to be able to play as a part of the game itself.

I don�t have the time nor the patience to code my own AI - this is the job of the progammers i paid money to. And this job is not finished in a very big part!!!!!!

Don�t get me wrong, this game is/would be great if all the fixes would be made, but at the moment, this is no full game for me. So i am not angry, but frustrated - ... such a depth, such a great variaty.... what great games would be possible....

So, i don�t play further (after i know now all secrets of the game, it�s too boring to play only to win against a weak AI), and will wait what the next patches will bring.

I thought, that this game would be my game over the christmas time - but it isn�t.

Sorry, i have to say this.

See you till the next patch.

Jochen

[Freyland]

Way ahead of ya, Jochen-baby!

disk is just gathering dust.

Jonathan

[Ebonyknight]

Yeah, same here. I lost interest two weeks ago. I keep poking my head in here to see if there are any fixes.

Amazing how just one or two aspects can ruin a practically perfect game.

All the things you can do are amazing and exciting, but if you can't play a decent AI, it just pales.

[Psitticine]

May I make a suggestion?

If y'all don't care for the AI, why don't you try playing against each other?

[Talenn]

Well, I guess I'm just more stubborn than y'all are.

I'm still plowing ahead and making tweaks and changes. Every now and then I can get a good if not great game out of the AI. Its still very lacking in the 'flavor' department though as far as AIs go. I think the MOO series is a tough act to follow in that regard and that is what most folks are going to use as the baseline.

Personally, I do agree that parts seem unfinished. I think this is simply too large of an undertaking for what is basically a one man design/programming outfit. I think the game could GREATLY benefit from having a few extra people go in and do alot of work on the AI in terms of Messages sent and general 'personality'. I think the basic framework is there, but without info on the inner working of the AI, all we can do as Users is scratch the surface.

But even at that, I'm still enjoying the game. Anything that I can tweak and futz with the numbers gets a big boost in my book!

Talenn

[C4]

My disk is on the way to being an expensive coaster. I was counting on the single play being good because IMHO multiplay games will take way too long.

The AI seems to be pretty poor and the game play is somewhat interesting, but not exciting. What killed it for me are two things:

1. Going to war with a race and then watching the race's 36 dreadnoughts fail to attack my lightly defended colony that I just took from them.

2. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to the diplomacy and moods. If I start doing too well, all of the contacted races get ticked off and declare war.

I will definitely look for patches to correct game play issues, but as it stands there's no way I can recommend SEIV to anyone else.

I should know by now - DO NOT PREORDER!