Space Empires IV 2.0?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Arkcon:
Yeah but, when talking about the next Version -- maybe we should call it SE5.

If you say SEV out loud too many times it sounds to me like a mod based on a living, protein craving insectoid ship, piloted by a loser in a red cap, a walking dead guy, a bodyless robot, and a soft-spoken, introspective, shy girl who happens to be half cluster-lizard.

Not that there's anything wrong with that if thats the sort of thing you like. [/QB]

Took me a while to figure out what you were talking about here.

Actually though, when I type "SEV", i read it as SE-5. Just like when I see SEIV, I read it as SE-4. Never heard anybody refer to it as SE-Ivy.

Originally posted by Will:
But generally, a change in the number before the decimal indicates a major status change. I would have thought of SEIV Classic -> SEIV Gold would be a change from v.1.xx to v.2.xx, just like Beta -> Classic was v.0.xx to v.1.xx. Oh well.

Actually now that would have been a good idea in retrospect. Too bad he didn't do that.

Geoschmo

[Taera]

if the game Version actually moves to 2.xx it would be a major change because from what i know 1.00 was originally SEII, then SEIII capped at 1.17, then SEIV at 1.49 and now gold is 1.89 (i think, thats the beta). if it becomes 2.xx it would be a major change indeed.

[Kamog]

Maybe instead of calling it SEV it can be called "SEIV Pro"

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Taera:
if the game Version actually moves to 2.xx it would be a major change because from what i know 1.00 was originally SEII, then SEIII capped at 1.17, then SEIV at 1.49 and now gold is 1.89 (i think, thats the beta). if it becomes 2.xx it would be a major change indeed.

SE3 started at Version 1.00. SE4 also started at 1.00 (after the demo Version, of course). Gold only started at 1.50 (in beta Versions) because it is still SE4, just newer patches.

[Quikngruvn]

He could just start using letters. After v1.99 would be 1.A0, up to 1.A9, than 1.B0, etc. I doubt he'll do 280 more patches to go past 1.Z9....

Quikngruvn

[Taera]

Quikngruvn, you cant say for sure. with the amount of ideas and requests and wishes, it can go far beyond 280. dont you think?

[Kamog]

Another possibility is to add another decimal point to the Version number, i.e.
SEIV 1.99.01, SEIV 1.99.02, etc
And when those are used up, go to
SEIV 1.99.99.01, 1.99.99.02, etc
and so on.

[capnq]

SEIV 1.99.01

Most programmers who use that convention don't read the dots as decimal points; it's "major release-dot-major revision-dot-minor revision".

There's no reason that v1.99 can't be followed by v1.100, except to avoid confusion.