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Old October 26th, 2007, 08:17 PM
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Gentlemen Please. If your going to fight at least give advanced notice so we can sell tickets to the ball.
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Old October 26th, 2007, 08:51 PM
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What thread are you reading, Atrocities?
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Old October 27th, 2007, 12:10 PM
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I think what AT is saying is, that he feels 'left out' and that this thread should be on the Sci Fi channel and they should be selling tickets for it!!!
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Old October 27th, 2007, 01:00 PM
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Surely you guys have more quantifiable issues with the game than those 3 things.
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Old October 27th, 2007, 01:17 PM
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The sliders/spinners from SE4 race setup. Far superior interface to use than a pile of checkboxes for +/-5%

Showing estimated time to completion on build queue items... NOT the time it would take if it were the only thing in the queue.
Throw in a small indication of how many resources have already been invested in the item too.

As an extension of #2:
Same deal with the flags. Make them 2D overlays, smaller, and pack them together so a sector with three races in it is understandable. A larger flag can be ok if there is only one race in the sector.
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Old October 27th, 2007, 02:28 PM
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Bring back SE3 construction.
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Old October 27th, 2007, 02:52 PM
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Gentlemen Please. If your going to fight at least give advanced notice so we can sell tickets to the ball.
Hmmmmm.............

Just to be clear here, I wasn't trying to "argue" a point, but rather simply state my point of view. I think everyone has a solid stance from their own perspective, and I just wanted to express mine.
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Old October 27th, 2007, 04:38 PM
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Kana said:
"Bring back SE3 construction."


We have part of that already, since projects will maintain their built amount status if you move them down the queue (though sadly these amounts aren't actually listed for anything but the first item). The only thing missing is transferring them to another queue, which I'm not sure would be very feasible to introduce into the codebase at this point.
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Old October 28th, 2007, 01:47 AM
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What I mean't about SE3 Construction, is that the ship is in space, in a partially built state, and each turn that it takes to build it, depends on the amount of components that can be added.

IE construction by component, not by resource value. Heck it would be even better, if it was by tonnage instead of even components.
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Old October 28th, 2007, 09:39 PM
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Fyron, on the three points, the key one being the "not having any fun" one... Esthetics aside, the game is just not enjoyable in the state that it currently is. It needs to be reworked to offer a better interface and that is the most important issue in playing a game! It needs to want a player, to looking forward to continue playing. The game lacks that appeal. SE4 had that appeal even before all the mods.
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