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I was looking for something similar to Starfleet Battles (and found the Starfleet Command series, btw) and stumbled upon SEIII. Played it for a while without knowing that SEIV was out. When I found out about SEIV, SEIV Gold was in the works and about to be released, so I bought SEIV Gold and the rest is history.

Slick.

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Many years ago, I found the SEIII demo when I was searching for strategy games while looking at a games site. Downloaded it and started playing... I have been addicted since. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

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I first found SEII about 5 or 6 years ago (I was only 11 or 12 back then! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif ). Downloaded it, loved it, then found SEIII. Downloaded the demo, got hooked really fast, then bought it. Then found SEIV Gold, bought it, and that's how I came to be here.

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I was on the old TOP forum when one of the members, cannot remember which one, posted a link to the SEIV beta. I had been searching for years for a game like SE IV, and jumped on the demo like a starving dog on fresh meat. I never looked back.

If only I had know of Stars and SE series back in 98, oh boy would I have been spoiled rotten.

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I first found Se3 (demo) while browsing Tucows.com a while ago for free shareware games I could try out. The demo Version was a bit hard for me to master, and I never did play it fully, but it did get me interested in Malfador. I began to check Malfador's main site often, and I found out that Se4 was in the works. I downloaded the se4 demo, and kept playing it to no end; I never did purchase the normal se4 outright, I guess the demo had satisfied my gaming needs, but when se4 gold was in development, I again tried the demo for se4 gold, and decided to start posting here at the Shrapnel Forums; not long after Se4G's release, I shelled out 100$ canadian (conVersion, then taxes, then shipping) and got se4 gold. I've been happy ever since.

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A friend showed me SE2 a long long very long extremely long time ago. Then a long long very long time ago I decided to look for the game myself so I could play it and found out about SE3. Waited for SE4 and bought it. Oh, time is reletive, I'm sure all you old guys would consider my life a blink of the eye.