SE5, Tell Aaron what's on your Wish List

[Raapys]

Ed Kolis said:
One of the announced features is a new alliance system in which (if I understand it correctly) you can even have multiple rival galactic councils, much like NATO vs. the Warsaw Pact.
Of course, it's hard to say if that feature will actually be present when the game's released - if you followed SE4's development, you might have noticed that drones were planned to be in from the start

Still, that sounds terrific! I love the game already <3

[Slick]

I hope it works well with game mechanics. It sounds like it might be difficult to implement:

- empires A, B & C join an alliance
- empire A proposes to attack empire D
- empire B agrees, but empire C disagrees and offers a counter-proposal
- empire A & B agree
- alliance moves fleets toward empire D
- meanwhile empire E has declared war on the alliance
- *sigh, politics... here we go again...*

each of these would take at least 1 turn during a multiplayer game (unless communication (via email or equivalent) outside the game is allowed)

[Kana]

Option to have user/modder assigned 'generic buttons' for the activation of stellar components, and any other component that needs manual activation. That way when modding components for SEV, we will have the option to flag a button to a specific component and effect...

Kana

[Q]

If the game setup of SE V is as complex as in SE IV (as I hope), a save option before you start the game would be very helpful.
Game setups take sometimes more than half an hour for me and then I start the game and realize that I forgot someting important: back to the beginning
If you could save the setup it would be a matter of seconds to fix the problem instead of going through the entire process all over again. That would allow of course to save your favorite setups too.

[Renegade 13]

Hey Q, have you looked in the bottom right corner of this screenshot? http://www.malfador.com/SE5scr017.htm

[Ed Kolis]

Bottom right you mean? And I could have sworn I posted a link to one of those screenshots already...

[Emperor's Child]

Another interesting thing I'd like to try in the game is some type of planet-to-planet wormhole / gate technology to move troops / cargo between planets.

There are a lot of sci fi themes that use this, but it is impossible to model in this game. It would be nice to have some way to accomplish this at least in the mods.

[Wolfman77]

Renegade 13 said:
Hey Q, have you looked in the bottom left corner of this screenshot? http://www.malfador.com/SE5scr017.htm

I see a button that says "starting Positions" as well. I wonder if we can change starting positions manualy before starting the game or if it just shows us where they are.

It would also be nice if we could add or remove warp lines right from the quadrant setup screen. It would be easier than saving the map and loading it in the map editor.

[Renegade 13]

Ed Kolis said:
Bottom right you mean? And I could have sworn I posted a link to one of those screenshots already...

Oops, yeah bottom right was what I meant. Thanks for pointing that out

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Q said:
If the game setup of SE V is as complex as in SE IV (as I hope), a save option before you start the game would be very helpful.
Game setups take sometimes more than half an hour for me and then I start the game and realize that I forgot someting important: back to the beginning
If you could save the setup it would be a matter of seconds to fix the problem instead of going through the entire process all over again. That would allow of course to save your favorite setups too.

I've sometimes had to re-start several times.