SEIV vs. SEV

Play SEV with the balance mod.

it really depends on your definition of "stable"
but yea, balance mod is far far better than stock and should give you a better game vs the AI or annother player.

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I´d stick to SEIV till the next 1 or 2 SEV patches

Some people even with the latest patch are reporting crashes. Some have had no trouble what-so-ever with even the unpatched game. The latest patch does appear to fix the majority of crashable issues for a good percentage of us playing, but your personal mileage may vary.

The game can and should be set to autosave every turn, so crashes or hanging processing are largely minor nuisances.

robbmiller,
I got the same deal a while back. I played with SE4 first to get my feet wet in the SE world and it was enjoyable to play a finished game. Everything works fine in SE4 and it will give you a good foundation for playing SE5. Hopefully in another few patches SE5 will be very stable and everything will work properly.
Omnius

SEV is stable as it generally won’t crash in normal use. There are some crash bugs about but they don’t seem to affect every one. the only one I have ever reproduced is the Aliance chambers crash. There are also a few things which are not working as that are supposed to and a couple of things which are bugs but which some people don’t like but the balance mod is a fix for most of those. SEIV looks a lot more primitive but it’s finished and has all the bells and whistles in place. It also has a good selection of mods out there as would be expected as it’s a mature product. By comparison SEV is very new

I have tried 3 games and all have crashed after the first 5 years (50 turns). I am using 1.17 from Steam... so I'd not recommend SE-V at least until the next few patches.

Balance Mod is alright, kind of kills the fun with certain things.

Allowable weight onto ships has been lowered and etc.

Just patch to 1.17 and play SEV.

It may hang-up on turn processing once every 50 turns or so, but saving often makes that into a minor nuisance only.

I'd suggest you get the stock experience before you start playing mods. That way, you'll know what your're gaining as well as missing with a mod.

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By playing SEIV, you're going to get to see the sheer depth of modibility this game has, and exactly how polished it will become.

In short, I don't think you'll miss much that you won't get just by sticking with SEIV for a few years.
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