Re: Lithuania vs USA Challenge - USA Thread
 

Are we on or more bailers?

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Only Loser's empire is missing. It would be great to get the first turn for the weekend http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If the game is not started soon, I will withdraw from it and I am not bailing. Bailing is negative term for someone who is jumping ship, runny away from a fight. I am not running, I am tell you that I have better things to do and my patience is not infinite.

[ September 19, 2003, 11:58: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

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I'll get my empire in tonight.

Hopfully I'll hear from the USA Captian about what sort of Empire I should be turning in. But I'll get one in either way.

As it is, I feel a little disconnected.

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Map is ready, please upload your empire ASAP, I would like to start this game saturday morning, as I will be on family duty until monday.

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Game has started.

Of course, the US team is on the West, while the LT team is on the eastern side of the map.

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Good hunting to all of you.

Re: Lithuania vs USA Challenge - USA Thread
 

Sorry Team, I somehow managed to screw up my password and it will require a manual turn execution to reset. First turn will be run by the AI. Hope it builds colony ships!!!

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UE - great map! At least the systems that I can see look promissing http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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yes map great. As I see there are a lot of system, warps and nice systems name. Will be nice game

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This will prove... challenging. My home system is... yeah... not sure what to say about it...

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Everybody is ready except Gandalph but as he leaves the first turn for AI we probably should run the turn manually.
Unknown_Enemy, please push the button http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Yeah this is one "busy" looking map...Good long game I hope....

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Okay with the start? Actually, I just want this to get going. Let's do this thing.

(In truth, if this were another game, I would probably be concerned about the start... It is unusual. But We need to get this game going.)

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Lot's of "fingers in the pot" to get going but now...."it's time to Rock 'n' Roll"~~

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Loser, not much spirit in your talk. Something's wrong with the team http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The team is fine. In fact, we're planning a celebratory barbeque - the Space Dragons will provide the fire.

The Lithuanians will supply the meat. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Nothing wrong withthe team, just a bit puzzled by one of my home systems...

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General Woundwort, you mean the picnic is for the winners? Thank you in advance http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Loser, PM me the name of the system which puzzles you.

For a map of this setting, the worse start I saw was Murden in PBW total annihilation. His only homesystem had a random system wide move 1 each turn. He was a newbye, and he discovered that it applied also to units.
So each turn he looked sadly at his mines drifting away, as were later a few sats and a cripled warship of him.

Last : defensive players will go to hell.

EDIT : ok, I loaded the map into the mapeditor and pinpointed the location of one of your homeworld with the player order. I feel sorry for you (trying not to laught). But you'll have to live with it. In fact it could be worse : think about Geoshmo in Return to Orion with his only homeworld located in a shieldless system, and with an agressive alien just 1 system away using...organic armors.

I am really sorry, but your situation really gave me a good laught.....

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[ September 23, 2003, 15:04: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ]

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Someone was taking about barbaque? The fire will be mine not dragon`s and after it i don`t think there will be anything left to eat after i bake it.

Executer the Great http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ September 23, 2003, 21:11: Message edited by: Liudas ]

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Oh I can live with it. And it is pretty funny. It will just limit my use of certain tactics and tricks. On the other hand, it also opens up some interesting tactics... weird interesting tactics...

So hey, I'm in this one for the Gold. Let's go.

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Yeah... interesting... I can't even think about what might be 'strange' with our side...

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Hey...can any of you tell me where to look for long term guilding with this game? I'm fairly convinced it will be a staple for me for years to come. I'm an avid turn based Strategist gamer for many years...TalonSoft stuff and the like...and this one seems to fit the bill remarkably in it's replayability and enthusiast base...So where should I be looking?

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Cheering section for typically annoying US fans

U S A!!! U S A!!! U S A!!!

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Lithuanian flag rises high to the sky http://www.lietuva.com/lt4.gif

Edit: everybody's ok with the start?

[ September 23, 2003, 12:40: Message edited by: Pablo ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Not sure what you mean by "guilding". Could you elaborate?

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Sure..by guilding I mean permanent teams who play together or against each other all the time. Or is the community basically a guild by itself in size? I thought I saw something that was like a "Galactic Sized" map (meaning like 100 generated maps with front lines etc), that must have many players playing at same time.

Also...can anyone tell me what are the most "essential" mods? Shipsets? I see Atrocities (for instance) has a Phuckload of Sheeyat out there...I just want to know which ones I should grab first...what ones most players would consider the "best"...are some good for AI only while others better for graphics...etc..

Thanks for anyone taking time to answer this.

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Ok, the game is running fine except the master password I put do not match the Master password Griphin put for the game in PBW. So until a PBW admin update it, I'll process the turns manually. Doing that, there was 2 things I noticed :

gamekid90 : you messed up , your turn was for turn 1 , this is turn 2.

nirtus : your file seems to be from a different executable than this game. Please patch your game to 1.84 ASAP.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That megamap game was discussed, but I don't think it ever got off the ground.

I gather that in the early days of SEIV there were a lot of "teams"/alliances out there (you can still find several websites for them in the SEIV website thread), but I don't know how active they still are.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">TDM is probably the most widely used (and acclaimed) mod. It's major change is making the AI's a heck of a lot tougher. It also includes some new races and shipsets.

Fyron's Quadrant Mods also get used a lot. New graphics, and more hostile terrain (prepare to see your smaller scout ships get eaten by damaging warp points... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif ) Fyron also has a Ultimate Strategies mod that vastly increases the default combat options for ships and fleets.

The biggest mod project going on right now is Atrocities' Star Trek Mod (now at iteration 1.25a I think), using his Star Trek races and all new tech trees for them.

As for shipsets, it's simply a matter of personal taste. Atrocities (aka the One-Man Shipset Design Bureau) has by far the largest number of, and highest quality, shipsets available. At Kuat Drive Yards, you'll be able to see and use Andres' excellent Star Wars shipsets (including the Space Dragons, aka "The Terrors of Lithuania" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ). Be sure to check out the (once fully, now almost) complete shipset list at State of the Art Spaceyards for all the shipsets available.

EDIT - added links

[ September 25, 2003, 01:49: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

Re: Lithuania vs USA Challenge - USA Thread
 

..plus the DevNull Mod that I play a lot.. it's great!

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General and Pablo...thanks much....At this point I'm sorry I jumped into this PBW so fast (just to make sure I was accepted) before I found a Phunky Shipset to call my own~~ Turns out it took long enough to start that I could have found an alternative.

So alas I'm just a lowly Terran (sort of hehe) for this game. I will venture to say though that Venice (where I'm now living) had a serious Naval Republic in Centuries past...and in keeping with that proud Naval tradition -- our current designs are (or will be) rather....advanced~~ http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Any more comments on Mods and stuff are most welcome.

Oh...and where is that Lithuantian BBQ going to happen? Roanoke??

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">At the first star system where the Dragons make contact with the Lithuanians. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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heheh ...you Virginians~~

Hey...what do they mean by "NEO Compliant"?

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Neo Compliant I think means more ship types. Some mods use extra ships types like Scouts, Corvettes, etc and Neo - Standard is the term used to describe these extra ships. There is a sight that has a description and even downloads with neo standard ships list in one of the stickies at the top of this forum.

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LMAO @ http://web.init.lt/~pablo/se4/addicted.htm

That is one long list with some very funny items.

Re: Lithuania vs USA Challenge - USA Thread
 

a suggestion from our team to make turn duration 72 hours and not alpu. What do you think?

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Works for me.

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I'm good for that.

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any news about gamekid90?

Unknown_Enemy, please make turn execution not ALPU but timed (72 hours) as I believe in case everybody submits their turns earlier the new turn will be executed earlier?

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Done.

Nirtus and jfpone23, please check your mails.

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Players,

Gamekid90 is quitting the game.

Shall I boot him to speed up the turns, or do you want to find a replacement first ?

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Lithuanian team aggrees to whait until there will be a raplacement for gamekid.

Executer

Re: Lithuania vs USA Challenge - USA Thread
 

Yeah we agree to wait untill the USA team finds a replacement for gamekid but what if it will take another month? I would suggest some USA player to make turns for gamekid empire until a replacement is found.

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Game is on hold until further notice.

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PBW says that it is still fully auto turns and the next turn is due tomorrow...

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Well, yes it was.

I could not connect to PBW just after that message, and as it was already very late for me, I decided it could wait till this morning.

It is done now.

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WHile we have this little break, could I get a quick role-call.

I'm on the U.S.A. team, and I don't know who else is.

[edit: that is, I know a couple who are, but I'm not certian about the whole team.]

[ October 13, 2003, 14:33: Message edited by: Loser ]

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well there is LT near almost all Lithuanian team members exept pablo http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Executer

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USA - Starwolf Clan Atrocities

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Liudas is spreading misinformation as our team is completely Lithuanian but Loser asked about the USA team.
It looks like our opponents tend to be not very much organized. This may mean that the promissed dragon picnic will be for us http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif