We Have Lost Contact.... |
Is there a more wimpy way to tell us an empire has fallen than to say "We have lost contact with race XYZ"? I liked the graphic and saying from SE4 much better. Plus it's confusing for SE5 as now you can lose contact with other empires through warp point destruction. The losing contact message should be only for losing contact with another empire but it still exists. For empires that are totally destroyed we should have a message more in line with SE4 which tells us that empire has been destroyed. Bring back the skull!
Omnius
I'd like to see the
I'd like to see the show-stopping bugs fixed first though.
Warp Point Destruction
In SEIV you lose contact with an empire if there was not a route from one of your planets to one of their planets.
Interestingly, even if you completely isolated their system(s), if you had one colony in that system you could still talk, despite your sole colony being cut off from the rest of your empire! LOL I guess they use subspace transmissions like in star trek or something.
Why not cut scenes?
Better yet… Why not introduce cut scenes. One thing I had hoped to see with SEV was and intro movie for the game and maybe other cut scenes for major events like the destruction of an empire. Even Moo1 (1993) thirteen years old has an intro.