Space Empires Universe - Space Empires V FAQs

Migrating SV5 to another PC

Bones — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:10:14 -0400

Hi,

I am upgrading at present and want to move my SV5 saved games and updates to another PC. 2 Questions:

Firstly, the new PC is 64bit CPU and OS (vista ultimate) - any issues with SV5?

Secondly, can I install the stock game on the new PC then overwrite the directory with the SV5 data from my old PC.

Cheers

Remote Mining

bpleshek — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:21:23 -0400

Can you use remote mining in a system with no planets? I'm not sure because there is no spaceport there.

thanks,

Brian

Formulas - modding

bpleshek — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:00:54 -0400

I've noticed this in some of the mods:

Tonnage Space Taken Formula F:Number A formula which returns the amount of tonnage space that this component takes on a vehicle.

But i cannot find out where the formula is set. Any help ?

Brian

scripts

bpleshek — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:50 -0400

How can i view/edit the scripts? Is there a script editor available?

Brian

Creating the Peace

Korgeta — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:29:06 -0400

Alien races throw treaties at you left or right, however i have a problem, well two, both connected and perhaps both with a soultion.

A lot of treaties given to me are impractical such as make no treaty with anyone else, which dosen't work in my favour when there are twenty other races around me. So as soon as i reject it, they reject my peace treaty (a bog standard non aggression, no sustem colonising in either system) when i offer a gift it 'offends' them.

Sometime i am at war with other races and there is one race who have dragged me down and near exausted my resources. Again, offer a gift, it offends them, offer them a treaty and they reject it.

en lire plus

Population Growth and Movement

bpleshek — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:18:08 -0400

Hi All,

I had a question. Do most of you use freighters to move population from the homeworld to the new colonies in order for them to grow faster or do you just rely on the behind the scenes population movement to take place? Is it better to do on certain colony types over others ? Is your planet's growth affected by how full it is as other games do(once it's 95% full growth slows, etc) making me really want to make sure my HW doesn't have a near max population? Comments?

Thanks,

Brian

Negative Traits

bpleshek — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:14:19 -0400

Hi all,

What are the better negative traits to take? I've noticed that if i don't play a bio race, that a negative there probably doesn't impact me much. What have you all found to work well and why?

Brian

Ship Sizes

bpleshek — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:44:50 -0400

Hi all,

I have heard it suggested that there is a disparity between the small ships and the large ones with too much power going to many smaller ships. I am talking about the stock game. How is this exactly? Does the balance mod "fix" this, mitigate it, or not address it?

Brian

Devnullmod 1.71.3.1

Bones — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:14:59 -0400

HI,

Loaded this mod as well as the multimedia pack and I have a couple of issues.

When I use Devnullmod I get planets for warp points and stars. It appears OK in Balmod.

Secondly, when using the Devnullmod I have resource problems. 3 planets are rioting as they have no resources, yet I have an overall surplus of minerals, orgainics and Radioactives. One of the planets has 2 orgainic and 2 radioactive plants with planet resource levels well over 100%. I can't see how to get resources to them.

I like the logic of this mod as far as minaturisation with higher tech levels. But I am concerned that there are no plasma missiles.

en lire plus

Supply Ships

bpleshek — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:59:02 -0400

Hi all,

If i want to make a supply ship(supplies and ordinance), do i use a freighter with lots of storage compartments or a regular ship with lots of ordinance and supply parts on it?

Thanks,

Brian