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125. If you repeatedly use one or more of the following more than once a turn:
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126. You are actually a pacifist! (seen it done a guy relies on trading tech and builds ships for other players and sold it to them at discount, eventually one of the sides turned on him and WHAM insta death).

127. You build thousands of satelites yet forget to launch them into orbit of your worlds (AI does that alot!)

128. Your main weapons are the DU cannon and L5 missile even during late game.

129. You equip your ships with ONLY wave motion guns (done that one, lost my whole navy in two battles and completely redesigned every one of my ships).

130. Your main goal in life is to make friends and you conisder all races equal.

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These Posts (and few others) are the most important reason why we shouldn't allow some SE4 (and especially PBW) player to become US President in the future http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Hehe I'd make a bloody great president!!! Conquest every Monday purges every Tuesday and beer on Friday what's wrong with that hehe http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

131. Your starships have a self destruct button right next to the flusher in the lou.....bad things result.

132. Your ships apparently have no bathrooms and have to stop off regularly because the captain has to take a tinkle.

Anyone who knows star trek Original-Voyager will know what I'm talking about with those two http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Though Enterprise finally showed us a bathroom.

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Walter Koenig once told a story at a Star Trek convention here in Portland that explained both how Kahn knew him even though he was not in the episode Space Seed, and where the bathrooms were on the ship.

Evidently after being frozen for 200 years Kahn had to take a horrendious dump but could not find a bathroom in his quarters. Kahn roamed the ship until he finally came acrossed the only bathroom on the entire ship. Unfortunetly Checkov was using it at the time and well, Kahn had an accident. Upon leaving the bathroom Kahn grabbed the small russian and told him that he would never forget him.

I mean would you forget the man who made you crap your pants because he wouldn't let you use the only toilet in exsistance? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Walter Koenig tells that story every time he is asked about Khan http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif. I think its generally considered the official answer.

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133.Your AI minister over rules your choices.
134.All of you ministers organize a revolt and your empire is broken into sub sections.
135.You dont speak the same language as your own people.

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When I see Chekov I keep thinking he's Bester. Walter Koenig was very good as Bester... he was soooo evil.

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So you have heard it too then. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif Want to know something? I am the man who pissed Walter off by making a bad joke while he was signing autographs. I was so stupid for saying "Ah they have you working for your money now." Ooops, bad call. The look he gave me was not a nice one and spoke volums about what was going through his mind. The people around me all fell silent and this sense of utter dread began to fill my soul. I do apologize and should have done so then, but that look said "Don't you say another word to me." So I did not. To this day I regret ever having opened my mouth. Bad Atrocities.

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This is going way OT.

I know what its like to talk without thinking first (believe it or not http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif). I once underwent a job test. I had the skills, no trouble there, they even told me afterward such (It was by the way a job for rewriting computer systems to handle Y2K). However while doing the test where I had to give an answer on how I would handle a dispute during a meeting I fell victim to my little foible of OPENING MY BIG FAT MOUTH and answering when the kind, friendly interviewer going around the group (as we did the computer test) asked me the question to my face. To the question of what would you do, I momentarily lost my judgement and jokingly answered the nice kind friendly woman talking to me "You just feel like punching both of them don't you http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/shock.gif. This is when I learnt my people skills needed development. I got my revenge though, the scheme collapsed and none of them got payed.

and just to clarify Atrocities, I didn't hear it at a convention myself (don't get many StarTrek or SciFi conventions when you live on an island that is the Last stop before the South Pole), however I do read StarTrek books and webpages and its a widely known story that as I said is generally considered lighthearted canon.

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wery bad, AT. Wery bad.

136. You're trying to balance the weapons and abilities from Earth & Beyond and translate them to SE4.

137. You play the Jenquai in the resulting mod.

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Number 138. You are looking at this thread for hints on how to make your Empire Better!!

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139. When you get your combat replay, you grab your joystick and fly your ships in combat. Your main strategy is trying to improve a killer joystick move to dodge enemy attacks. You are trying all the trick combat moves from Mortal Kombat III to see if they do anything cool in SE4.
140. You think Counter Intelligence I is the best mission, since you can complete it sooner than any of the others.
141. You confuse minesweeper with minelayer components, and are surprised when your attack fleet gets blown up when it was protected by several... empty minelayers. (I've done this.)
142. You cut back on engines on your ships in unmodded SE3 or SE4, to make room for other things and/or to save resources.
143. You argue for days and days on the SE4 forum about how Escorts with ECM III and only one engine are the ultimate game-winning design because you think they will almost never get hit. (Someone kept this up for an amazingly long time).
144. You keep sending speed-2 Proportions mod colony ships trying to cross black hole systems, but for some reason they never seem to be able to warp out.
145. You respond by sending warships to the black hole sector to try to blow it up with direct-fire weapons at it.
146. You consider your Green Giant system to be the best one in your empire, right after your Stellar Core system.
147. Your homeworld defense plans revolves around hoping alien invaders will be frightened by the unbelievable size of the Green Giant and the Stellar Core graphics.
148. Your homeworld warp point defenses consist of 100 satellites equipped with self-destruct devices and nothing else. You figure they can't be swept by minesweepers, and the first 100 enemy ships ought to be taken care of by those, since they each have enough explosives to destroy an enemy ship of any size.
149. You build World Ships with no components and then send colonizers to them to try to establish colonies on them.
150. You annhilate unarmed alien populations because you find it too much work to try to use troops.
151. Your empire has a super-powerful technology, which you can't learn how to pronounce.
152. You can't even pronounce "nuclear".

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153: You don't notice that number 122 is missing until you read number 153.

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154. You did notice 122 was missing but you figured "What the hell nobody would notice" (guilty)
155. It's Nukular
156. Your Emperor is "Homer" or Philip J Fry
157. You put one engine on your fighers.
158. The home system defense plan includes "Green balls of goo".
159. You always get saved by that pesky Deux Ex Machina
160. Your best captain is named Kirk and his first officer is mister Fukov
162. You skipped 161 because it was just going to be a Vulcan joke.
163. Your Race' ambassador is a purple telletubi (sp?), or for that matter any teletubbies.
164. You have your scientists disect your ambassador because you want to know what the hell a telletubi is...

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122. (SKIPPED DILIBRATELY)
161. (SKILLED DILIBRATELY)

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165. Your emperor portrait is exactly the same as your population picture.

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166. If you are first for the war, then against it before you were for it just before you were against it again.
167. If your bid for office is endorsed by the galaxies most wanted terrorist the day before the election.
168. If you believe the people who crashed hijacked passinger transports into your captitol were really just victims and not terrorists.
169. If you won your appointment to office by suing the election process and whining and throwing tempor tantrums until you got your way.
170. If your soul goal in becoming the leader of your people is to obolish thier civil rights, suspend the constitution and declare marshal law because you saw that Emperor dude do it in Star Wars and get away with it.
171. If you believe you are the Emperor from Star Wars.
172. If the Force is NOT with you.
173. If you believe in the force and know its not with you.
174. If your health care provider is also your population control bureau.
175. If you allow the free press to be free.

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176. If you choose the Neutral happiness trait
177. If you try to build a station in a black hole sector(is this even possible)
178. If you get your butt kicked by the AI
179. If you blow up your home planet reenacting Star Wars

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180. You construct Sphere World or Ring World pieces in planetary orbit.

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181. You simotaniously construct 10 colony ships only to discover you failed to include an engine in the design.

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182. You automate your factories that produce automated death machines.

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183. You make satellites with DUCI and fortify a warp point, expecting them to hit (they have 1 range).
184. You don't keep track of your minerals, so one ship manages to destroy your homeworld because you don't have enough minerals left to build a weapons platform.
185. You get ancient race trait, find the enemy homeworld, realize that the warp point is within six range, move your attack ship to the other side of the warp point, then cackle with glee since you believe you will ambush their homeworld through a warp point before they have a chance to build weapons platforms. Too bad you forgot to turn off "ships stop when entering new systems and encountering enemy ships" option.

(all the above happened in one game and resulted in me losing in 11 turns lol).

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Not too hard with retroseries building:

Master Computer III: 4000 minerals
5000 hitpoints of crystalline armor: 2380 minerals
Repair bays to fix it all: 1500 minerals
Getting the enemy to attack a black hole base: priceless

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Note: organic armor works well too, with the advantage of regenerating after battle to full strength.
The other armors are either too weak (hp/kt) or too small (not enough space for extra repair bays)

C&C plus hole survival equipment := 1800 kt.
Leaves you 700 kt for weapons/shields/armor that you can use in battle on a starbase.

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186.Your dreaded "shock troops" are really just Star Wars Imperial Stormtroopers in blue instead of white. (think about how good stormtroopers are and you'll get it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif)

187. You build 1 super monitor and a bunch of transports and let your empire be destroyed planet by planet so you can reinact Battlestar Galactica.

188. You have to take conrol of the AI because they are doing better then you all the time.

189. You beleive saying "May the Force Be With you" before every battle will allow your dramatically outnumbered and outclassed fleet to win.

190. The AI constantly sends you Messages saying "Please buddy stop fighting me my crews are getting tired killing so many of you."

191. The AI that keeps kicking your royal *** is a Decapoidian shipset http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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192. If the AI that is kicking your *** is set to NO BONUS, and is a negative -50% to all characteristics with no advanced trait and the Neutral Culture.

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193. You miss those very important reports about a star exploding because it got lost amongst the numerous Lack of Resources reports, only to miss the further reports of the explosion later on because of the same Lack of Resources reports, and only make the discovery later on when the colony ship with no supplies left you sent to colonise a planet there, finally makes it to where the planet used to be and informs you that there's nothing there to colonise.

194. Your weak, pathetic enemy waits until your entire mighty warfleet falls into total disrepair from lack of maintenance and is written off, before launching a single successful attack which causes every planet in your empire to rebel.

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195. Your home star goes nova 2 years after the game starts and your outlying colonies fall within a year when the Cue Cappa and Phong begin invading your space, your shattered navy is destroyed in two battles and you don't even have enough colony ships or transport ships to get the millions of citizens of the dying worlds.

Within a year it's all over yoru population is dead your worlds are dust and the AI is laughing it's way to the bank hehe http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Naturally occuring novas take 3 years to go off.
You would need to have a max-tech start and an enemy sunbuster.

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Well I suppose it was three then, either way it was a crappy end for my game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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196. If you name your ships the following names.

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Complete List can be viewed at SE.net Forums.

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197. Another player takes pity on you and your low-tech realm (3 systems, 6 colonies, and a highest tech level of 3 and you haven't even researched any Theoretical Science tech area - in the year 2565.4) and grants you 25 combat Baseships to protect yourself. You scrap them and use the material to build... unarmed escorts. Simply because you think "Escorts are sooo cute, compared to those big ugly Baseships. I mean, who would want anything above Frigate?"

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198. You don't even know what you're actually talking about in 197 because you've only HEARD of frigates... you haven't even discovered them yourself.

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199. Your so drunk that you accidentally sign over your Empire to your cousin's sister's wife's brother in law.

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ROFLMAO - Now that is funny. And the sad thing is, they most likely attempted to take a bank loan out on it.

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200. If you have ever taken a brand new Atrocities Class Super Dreadnought and dilibrately used it to demolish a decommissioned space station. (Al American Chopper style)

- They totalled a 2005 Ford Expodision by running it through the walls of an office in their old shop after they moved out of the building. Proof positive that you can take the red neck out of back water hill billy country, but you can never take the back water hill billy out of the red neck.

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201. If you lose on turn 1.

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202. You are barred from PBW for having lost 200 games in a row; against yourself.
203. The Ai ministers stage a cue and BSOD your PC in a last ditch effort to prevent you from ever playing SEIV again.
204. You have played over 2,000 games against the AI on its lowest setting and have never won any of them.
205. Your still trying to figure out how to install the game.
206. You downloaded version 1.49 from the internet and cannot figure out why many of the mods won't work.
207. You complain that GOLD is a rip off and you refuse to buy it!
208. By some miricle you capture an enemy Dreadnought and you then trade it back to them in exchange for a technology that you already have. - dumbass
209. Your top of the line design by turn 200 is: Escort Class with DUC's I, and no engines.
210. You consider this list as your bible on how to play SEIV. - Duh, me no can figur out why me keep loosing duhhhh.