Re: How many SEIV games is enough?
 

you could always make a util to randomly change component and facil values while your playing. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: How many SEIV games is enough?
 

I save my races... and use them in the next game.... I have 4 standard races a 2k, 3k, 5k and a koth one.

I save them at the end of a game with all the ships and build ques etc...

Then I just tweek them for games as needed...

That helps... ( And the ship libary is quite huge , as is the planet build que list )

Then I just automate as much as possible and pretend I know what is going on with the RP and treaties.... ( some times i get mixed up... as some posters here can tell you ... I am sure they do it as well.... I once declared war on Nodachi in 4 games in 2 days he he.... )

Re: How many SEIV games is enough?
 

In answer to the original question.

Here's how not to work out how many games is enough.

Start up a couple of games. Get really impatient after the first month that they're only just getting going, and you want to play more SEIV NOW! Start a couple more games, including one 10-planet start which should be big from the beginning. Find you're enjoying it so much, you want to play MORE! Start up another game, and take over a couple of empires in existing games.

At this point discover that your original games have now matured to 90-minute-a-turn monsters, and you find that most of your spare time is spent feeding the SEIV beast. But it's still fun.

Then real-life intrudes, work gets busy, and suddenly the Last thing you want is two urgent deadlines a night, every night, when you get home.

Drop out.

This is a real story, it happened to - a friend. Yes, a friend. Heed his warning. Everything in moderation.

Re: How many SEIV games is enough?
 

In answer to the original question

As player maybe two games are ok,but As Game Master is one enough because you will have enough to do with finding every 2 day's an new replacement player for your game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[ May 26, 2003, 17:11: Message edited by: Shapeshifter ]

Re: How many SEIV games is enough?
 

Number of games is entirely subjective. No concrete answer is possibly correct for anyone but the person giving it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: How many SEIV games is enough?
 

Ok, I have decided for myself, the games I am in are enough. Today I got up, was drinking some coffee and opened a turn that I got (a game I took over for someone) and was looking at it, and saw this one empire in a system that I didn't think he should be there, then saw that I had a T & R treaty with him, and was saying to myself "how the hell did I get a treaty with THAT guy, I was planning on killing him off" then realize that I was CONFUSING 2 different games, though that player was in both games with the same race.

So...I answered my own question, in my own way. Either that, or don't open a turn when I first wake up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: How many SEIV games is enough?
 

ummm thanks for the heads up http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Re: How many SEIV games is enough?
 

whaaat? That I wont be getting into anymore games? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif