Will there ever be a SE 6?

[qrb613]

I started out playing SE 4. It was a lot less buggy than SE 5 as I recall. The AI seemed to be competent at least.

SE 5 is only playable with The Balance Mod CaptainKwok was kind enough to create. I love this game it just never seemed to work out well mid to late game. I always seem to be either getting frustrated by the level of detail or beating the enemy so badly the challenge is gone.

Warp tech is over powered. Basically game over if you know how to use it. The alternative though is to suffer the enemies excruciating and pitiful attempts to attack my choke points almost every turn.

My goal is always to build a ring world. But by the time I build these the game is already over more or less. This game just never paces well despite my best efforts at using different start conditions to create a challenging and engaging play through.

I with they'd make SE 6 and try to work out the issues this franchise has.

[[eN] Thief^]

No, there will never be an SE6.

Reasons:
* The original company Malfador Machinations was sold to Strategy First (a holding company) in 2006
* SE5 stopped being supported with patches in 2009
* The owner of Strategy First (Silverstar Holdings) was delisted from NASDAQ in 2009, and may no longer exist itself. The previous event is probably not a coincidence given this.
* Since, there has been one attempt to continue the series with a contracted developer in 2010 with a Facebook game called "Space Empires: Battle For Supremacy". As far as I can tell, it never left beta and was pulled shortly afterwards. This was published by Strategy First, and not developed by Malfador, implying Strategy First now owns the Space Empires IP
* Malfador Machinations (the developer) released two games since which maybe had the original developer involved - the first was "World Supremacy" in 2011 which seems to have been largely a failure, and the last was an Android game released in 2014 called Space Captain which seems to have disappeared completely from the app store. Old apks can be found on mirror sites, but they aren't compatible with modern Android devices. These seem to have been independent of Strategy First, implying they've parted ways with the owner of the Space Empires IP.
* This seems to be reinforced by the fact that Strategy First published Space Empires I-III to Steam in 2020. This seems to have just been a cash grab, as the games haven't been updated and are plagued with issues, though it does show that StrategyFirst has somehow survived the death of its parent in 2010.
* The developer seems not to have been active since 2016 (the last update to the Space Captain Android app). They may no longer be developing anything.
* The codebase of Space Empires V probably doesn't exist, and couldn't be used as the basis for an SE6 even if it does - it was written in the now mostly defunct programming language Delphi.

So we're left in the situation where neither the IP owner nor the original developer seem to be doing anything with the IP. It's dead.

[MysticVoid7x9]

Quite right. What we got here is all we're getting without a ghost of a chance of a Space Empires 6.

If you want someone else's idea of Space Empires, then you could try looking at a game called Star Ruler 1 & 2, although those games are quite different

[qrb613]

I have star ruler. 2 Geat game but its got some weird bugs and its a lot less detailed than this one. I've played several decent contenders in the genre that have come out over the last 5 years or so. This one has been my favorite over all due to the tech,

[MysticVoid7x9]

some of the star ruler 2 bugs have been noticed by modders and fixed with a community bug fix mod.