Space Empires V

Current Version	1.71
Latest News	What's New?
Demo Release	SE5 Demo Download Page
Patches	SE5 Patch Download Page
Publisher	Strategy First, Inc.
Questions & Answers	Q & A
Troubleshooting	Troubleshooting
Screen Shots	Screen Shots
Empire Style Specification	Empire Style
Player Web Sites	Sites
SE5 Mods (Custom Data File Packages)	Mods
Full Release Date	10/16/06
Interviews / Previews	Wargamer
	Gamespot
	Orion Sector
System Requirements	Pentium 500 MHz or better class machine
	Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
	128MB RAM
	1024x768 or better screen resolution
	16bit color or better color depth
	500 megs hard drive space
	A video card with 3D acceleration
	DirectX 8.1 or higher
	A sound card capable of supporting MP3 and DirectSound playback. Sound card must be DirectX 8.1 (or better) compatible.
Comments, Suggestions, Technical Support	Email us at se5@malfador.com

Feature List

• 24bit 3D rendered graphics.
• Support for 1024x768 and greater resolutions.
• Turn-Based and Simultaneous Turn Game Play.
• Detailed Real-Time Tactical Space Combat (and a combat simulator to test your designs!).
• Detailed Real-Time Tactical Ground Combat (and a combat simulator to test your designs!).
• Ability to completely design and customize all of your vehicles.
• Detailed Empire management: Research, Intelligence, Politics, Construction Queues, Vehicle Design, and more.
• Detailed game setup: Victory Conditions, Restricted Technologies, Galaxy Layout, Player Configuraton, and more.
• Large Galaxy: 100 solar systems with 15 planets each.
• Randomly generated map for every game (or load an existing map).
• Discover: Black Holes, Nebulae, Binary Stars, Trinary Stars, Asteroid Belts, Gas Giants, Cosmic Storms, and more!
• Huge Technology Tree: Over 6000 tech levels, 500+ components and facilities.
• Detailed Race Creation: Unique ship models, race picture, racial traits, technology, history, and more.
• Completely customizable game graphics: Create your own planets, stars, vehicles,etc.
• Completely customizable data files: All game information is in easily editable text files. Create your own Components, Facilities, Vehicle Sizes, etc.
• Completely customizable AI players: Create your own AI players with unique traits, styles, and speech (even script the AI yourself!)
• Game comes with 14 unique races to play or customize (or just create your own!)
• Right-click menus return!
• Advanced Political features: Protectorates, Subjugated empires, trade game items, claim territories, form alliances, and more.
• Random Events: Rebellions, earthquakes, supernovas, industrial accidents, cosmic storms, and the occasional plague!

Some of the improvements over SE4

• True 3D solar system.
• 3D space combat.
• 3D ground combat.
• Right-click menus to give orders.
• Government and Society Types.
• Ship Design with specific hardpoints.
• Form Alliances of multiple empires.
• Customizable elements to treaties.
• Complete game key mapping.
• Combat with ships emerging from warp points.
• Task Forces within Fleets.
• Formations and Strategies for fleets and task forces.
• SE3 style research.
• SE3 style intelligence.
• Planetary Damage.
• Scriptable AI.
• Scriptable Intelligence Events.
• Scriptable External Events.
• Built in support for Mods.
• Formulas for data field values.
• Custom sorting options.
• Customizable Damage Types.
• Customizable Planet Atmospheres and Types.
• Customizable game text and fonts.
• Customizable score computations.
• Customizable Victory Conditions.
• Customizable Unit capabilites.
• Customizable Ship experience levels.