How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? 'rant thread, enter at your own risk!'

Three acording to the commercial.

Help! I have been assimilated

bravo, bravo.....

And I hate starcraft style gameplay where ship classes dont mean anything because AI keeps to buil only latest ship class so after x*n turns all empires have only dreadnoughts fleets without destroyers, cruisers....

Sry to say but game sucks in many ways!

If MM was to only release a single patch that would fix practically ALL of the game problems, then it would NEVER be released. It took 6 years to patch up SE4 (patch 1.95), with the help of the gaming community, and there are still several minor bugs.

I prefer the current system, every patch significantly improves the game and they are released pretty fast. Furthermore, we are able to guide MM on what are the biggest problems.

I've said this before, I would rather be able to play this game in a slightly incomplete state, rather than wait for another 2 years to have it released...

This is a different type of game from those big game houses. Intrinsically this game is better, it evolves over time. There needs to be a lot of input from the community for it to be able to evolve. ChiggyVonRichtoven your asking for a complete game right of the shelf (or after a patch), but that's not how this works. This is a Moddable game, it will continue to evolve and be patched and a year or two from now (or more), a lot of people will still be playing it...

SEV, more than a feeling.

Just to remind everyone, MM is a one-man show. Aaron Hall is MM. He only has help with the images and models. The core of the game is all him.

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We paid AAA price for the game.I care little for the excuses about him being alone.Maybe he should spend money and employ or charge shareware prices.

What is 'AAA price'? In Australia it came out at $50, where as Command and Conquer released at $100. Addmitantly C&C is now down to around $50, and I haven't seen SEV around lately. I was actually surprised to see SEV in stores, I thought that I would have to buy online. SEIV and Starfury have also come out with SEV, and for some reason they're both around $40.

The game was realesed at the same price as Bioshock in the UK,USA.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like to me that the blame is more on Strategy First, the publisher, rather than Malfador Machinations, the developper.
Didn't SF force him to release the game while it was still in a beta state? I also suspect that it's they who chose this "excellent" company that is Empire Interactive for the european release.
Maybe he should have stayed with Shrapnel Games instead?

I would say you are right and mm schould have taken another publisher at least for the european version, because the support of Empire Interactive is more than bad. The site itself ist confusing, the german site doesn't work at all and they need more than a month to offer a patch they got almost finished. 1 month just for testing a patch, that's pretty to long.
Sorry for the grammer and my bad writing, but my English isn't the best.

Schinkera

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Just an FYI. Bought my copy with SEIV deluxe included at Babbages 2 weeks ago for US $14.95 on the bargain shelf.

From other stuff I've read, it's not clear to me that SEV would even exist if Malfador had stayed with Shrapnel.

"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it /is/ a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.

So I'm sorry for pointing my finger on mm but I still think that Empire Interactive was no good choice.

Best Wishes for counquering the universe
Schinkera

The one-big-patch approach is out of the question. It'd take much too much time, and it'd still be imperfect. Just look at how many fixes have gone awry or needed further tweaking.

I'm frustrated at times, but the only solution I could get behind would be more manpower.

Those who'd rather wait have the option to do so. Just play something else for months and then tune in for the latest patches & mods, right?