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Maybe he thought you needed some fertilizer for your organic farms? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Or maybe it's a Gorn delicacy.....

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ha ha I would love to see their menu cards at a Gorn restaurant

"Would you like it medium or well cooked, sir?" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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I'm going to find a way to use the phrase "Here is a pile of S***! Enjoy!" in real life.

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Then get a job at MacDonalds http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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LOL McDonalds! I haven't eaten there in four years. Literally.

Jack in the Box, on the other hand...

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I studied in california a few years ago, but don't remember Jack in the Box? What kind of food do they got?

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It's the same as McDonald's, but slightly tastier. Still unhealthy.

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Maybe we should get this thread back on line and stop our commercial for Jack in the Box http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

#59 Get to know about new places to eat while chatting at the SEIV forum http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Not exactly Satisfying, but a blooper I just did now.

Plague Bombing an enemy planet by accident, when you were capturing the planet for it's population http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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60. Building the HighLiner class shuttle freighter Greyhound, and stationing it on a warp point to enemy territory.

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RD I did that to a planet twice in a row once. When you're playing on a huge starmap and only half paying attention, system names blur.

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61. Destorying all other races by collapsing all the stars in all of there systems, then doing the same to yours just for the fun of it.

62. Truning EVERY system on the map into a blackhole.

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Ah! Another contender for the title of Nut-In-A-Shell!

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Another one of those "Oops, I'm screwed" things...

63. Opening up a PBW turn-file, and noticing that a good ally of yours has opened 6 warp points and deployed nearly 20 star destroyers to all your systems, has them poised over all your stars except for one where it's two moves away, and over all you're closest partner's stars...

...Yep, that just happened to me. So much for a trusted ally...and so much for me and my partner http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif I can stop the one star destroyer, and maybe salvage some of my fleet to go on a revenge destroying spree, but that's about it...bummer.

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64. Capturing some population from all the 19 races other than your own, and putting them all in a nice zoo starbase.

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A zoo starbase! Classic. That might go well with a mothballed Showcase Fleet of captured ships from all the other empires.

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65. Building your first Atmospheric Modification Plant

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On the other side of things... Finally finishing your Diabolical Evil Master Plan that you've been working on for the past 30 or so turns to wipe out all known Deeply Religious empires simultaneously (Yes Renegade, that means Yor!rek is going down too - I've got 30 of them, and I'm using them all). I just hope no one's built any system grav. shields. As for the "trusted ally" bit, since when does a mere T&R grant that status? Also, you can thank the bad pathing algorithm for the one star destroyer not in position. If it had followed the path it was supposed to instead of taking one of the new warp points, it would be there already.

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Douglas.....

That is....Ambitious to see the least! Sweet Mother of Mercy that is Diabolical. I recommend that you grow a traditional Villainous Handlebar Moustache! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

I feel beter knwoing I'm not the only person who does that...

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Perhaps he's just seen you do it once and decided to post it here.....

The moustache isn't really necessary. Just go play Evil Genius for a while. Nothing feels better than to capture a tourist and interrogate him with a largescale Laser or a Cantrifuge..... muahuahuahuahua.....

(No, but really, I never capture tourists. I just have them killed.)

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You kill tourists? You evil evil person!

I just leave them alone, so they won't find out about my evil plans for world domination.

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I built a hotel once, on the first island, but it was never fully staffed and the bloody tourists roamed the island freely..... and all those social minions are taking up valuable minion space you could otherwise allot to more useful science or military minions.

And btw, it's fun to see a tourist panic and then get shot by a guard.

It's even more fun to build a lot of disguised Sentry Guns at your base entrance with overlapping fields of fire, and then when he/she walks into the fire zone, tag him/her for death.....

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When I have to take out an agent via my sentry guns, I usually tag all of the nearby tourists and agents for death and/or capture. If people land in my kill zone, they're going to get killed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Ctrl+RMB always gets 'em..... 'specially when you tag the first one of a bunch that is landing in your kill zone. As soon as they land, they're dead.

But back to topic.

Seeing that a mod you made has been downloaded, and thus knowing that it is playing on PCs all over the world..... or at least in the USA/Canada

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I'm not playing your mod, that error pops up...

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So, Douglas is the reason you don’t have star destroyers on my core systems is because, I not a Deeply Religious empire or that build system gravity shields?

Still you are going to destroy about a third of my systems. It should be an interesting end game.

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I only have 30 star destroyers, and Talisman empires were my primary targets. You're just getting the spares.

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Just the spares?

Luckly me!

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Hehe, you had 30 star destroyers? That must have taken a while.

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It took about 25 turns of building them in parallel. It wouldn't have been possible without my resource converter.

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Cool. Hope you win http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Sounds like that game will be amazing on its own when finished.

Back to topic (Think we are at 68)

68. Taking down several EEE Cruiser fleets with my lone Frigate for the first time.
69. Discovering how to add over 100 mines of your own into a sector for the first time.
70. Discovering you can stack more fighters in a sector than mines and 0.5k fighters do a whole lot of damage.
71. Beating the AI on team mode for the first time, with the computer on High bonus (computer declares war at first sight).
72. Discovering your son is better at SEIV than you are.

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73. Taking your last stand on the warp points connecting to your homeworld system, and beating the enemy back out.

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I thought this was fixed in one of the later patches.

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It was.

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Well, you weren't really my trusted ally Douglas http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I just wanted to make you feel bad http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Anyways, hats off to you, I should have taken more precautions (ie, sys grav shield facilities). Good game! Remember though, I have lots of ships, and one system left to support them! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif I'm going on a rampage.

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How long do you really think that one system will last? You didn't really think I'd be so foolish as to have no conventional military at all, did you? Also, where are these mystery ships of yours that they won't get destroyed in the megablast of over a third of the galaxy's stars going supernova? Plus, how are you planning to get to me to carry out this rampage? Those warp points aren't staying open forever, you know.

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You know, Douglas, doing that to your allies deserves it's very own medal...So here's your Treacherous Jerk award. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon09.gif[/img] I'm sure Renegade 13 will appreciate it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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I have my ways, and to be honest, they rely on luck a lot. And some assumptions on game mechanics.

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Douglas,

Just to let you known how much damage your 30 star destroyers did.
Destroyed 29 systems with 250 inhabited planets containing 65+billion population.
5600+ units, 560+ ships and 75 bases.

About 50% of everything in the game.

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Holy crap... 65 billion people? I crown you the nazi of Space Empires IV!

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That's the single most destructive event that I have heard of!

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Yup. I just nuke systems every now and then.

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I hate to break up the well-deserved kudos for Null's multiple system destroying accomplishment (done it against the AI, but against humans? Wow), but which patch "corrected" the 100 mine limit? I play version 1.6 gold and can overload a sector with mines. If the sector has less than 100 mines, you can select "Move All" and move over as many as the mine layer/planet has.

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What multiple system destroying accomplishment? I just blow up systems that annoy me.

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It really is best to play with the latest patch... many features have been added since 1.6 and many more bugs have been fixed.

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Settings.txt lets you change the max allowed num of mines/sats per sector..... for Capship I increased the max amount to 1k sats and 5k mines. I know this is absurd (but only realized this just now) since the max allowed units is 5k, but if you wanna mine the only WP leading from your home system elsewhere, and if your economy supports thousands of support ships and bases that act as "units", you could choose to max out mines there..... especially if you know there's an enemy COMCA approaching.

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And the last one is now safely in position and ready to cause that lost contact with empire message two more times http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif. Too bad I just got forcibly reminded of the 300 ship limit http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif. Oh well, I'll just sacrifice the 40+ old battlecruisers I sent to safeguard the last star destroyer while it got into position. That should give me some room to build more real combat ships.

Edit: They appear to have stressed the game enough that it removed half of a warp point by accident. It looks like there is now a one-way warp point from Ashadra to Yullado.

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Perhaps the wormhole's virtual mass has reached a negative amount.....