Next Patch

We are expecting to release the next patch in the next few weeks and it will be addressing several major and minor bugs that are still evident after the 1.08 patch.

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What is the deal with the specials on the planets vanishing... I liked those in SE4 and was looking forward to them in 5. They never stay longer then first round so cannot get any.....any suggestions or will this be patched

Specials? I'm not sure what you're talking about. Personally the thing I miss is ruins on planets. It was fun stumbling across a little piece of galactic history and getting a fun new tech from it.

Specials? I'm not sure what you're talking about. Personally the thing I miss is ruins on planets. It was fun stumbling across a little piece of galactic history and getting a fun new tech from it.

It looks like that's what he was talking about.

I miss them too; hopefully they will be fixed in the next patch.

Yes Specials are ruins.....under planet explore they are listed as specials, Sorry.
Massive planetary shield, Massive Ionic beams...ETC.
They where great....and 5 has them they just donot stick around enough to get found!

Yeah I started a new game on Saturday and thought I hit the jackpot when I glanced over the planets in my home system. Two seperate planets each had ruins so I started to build colonizers to claim them. The only problem I had was on the very next turn they were Gone! Obviously this is a bug.

Yup its a bug alright it bugs me a lot..... maybe they will patch it. Please

Is what I am. I whas thrilled to hear that Space Empires 5 was out. But after trying to play it for awhile with constant crashes, I've not so thrilled anymore. This was a very premature release IMNSHO.

So has the Developer put out a tentative date for the next patch?

official word "next few weeks"
i prefer often updates that could be "developed" by community

leaving the game in current almost unplayable stage for few weeks (ordnance bug ... the one that atm prevent me from playing ) is bad choice

The ordnance bug is a God damn joke!! just do a patch for that if possible, Ive had this game for a week now and its really pissing me off that a bug this serious is still around after a patch.

There is only one ordinance bug I have been able to replicate and that is using fleets.

I stopped using fleets with ordinance using weapons and stopped using ordinance using ships in fleets. Either of these temporary solutions makes the game playable for me while we wait for the next patch.

I put all the ships I want to travel together in one hex, hit select all and send them on their way. Klugie, but it works for now.

I played version 1.0 for 3 days before 1.08 came out. There were a few things that got fixed in 1.08, that broke other things. If he releases a patch every other day, it will fix 5 things, break 3 others. If we wait say, 3 more weeks for a patch, it will fix 50 things, break 20 others.

yes - but b4 battle you have to made fleets again .... you waste 2/3 of game time for maintaining the fleets (split/join) instead of playing ;/

I hate to say it, but I use the restoresupplies cheat to offset the ordenance bug. Its worked so far.

yea it's not quite as simple as releasing a patch every other day.
Aaron's been buisy lately fixing a new demo version, and trying to clear his email...
also, the code needs to be writen/fixed, it needs testing, it needs packaging up into a patch, it needs testing by the beta testers, (who also have jobs/lives/wives/girlfrends, go easy on them) that needs fixing again if broken, then tested again and releaced to you guys.

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an se5a is a ww1 fighter, it is also a car.

Pls tell me that was a joke

no - its true

but what is the problem of releasing full game as demo only with 100 turn limit hard coded in engine ( so the full and demo will be the same except turn limit)

Piracy isn't the problem - game has no protection so it could be copied without problem.

It will save much time and effort ...
Galactic Civilization uses this with very good results (they post beta patches for community and LISTEN to suggestions)

The demo has only a fraction of the races and technologies available in it. Even if you could crack the 100 turn limit and the modding protection, you would have to spend several hundred hours in labour to add 'content'.

Your lord and master (below Foamy) LordHavoc

One workaround for the ordnance problem that I've used is to go organic and use ordnance vats that produce ordnance kinda like solar cells and supply... VERY useful especially for massive fighter bases/carriers. I've had tons of ships in fleets without losing ordnance that way