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Well I guess the AI for the Zentradi is rather good. They are attacking me with a fleet of 24 ships, all state of the art, and have been testing my defense for some time. I am about to loose one of my key production worlds. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif My Game File I am just playing for fun and not much more than that. I have not put a lot into the concentration of the gmae so I am paying the price.

Take a look and have a good laugh.

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Well the game crashed and I have no current save so I am frustrated and uber angry at the moment.

One thing is for certain, if Diplomacy and politics are not fixed for SE V, that game is going to suffor a horrible fate when it comes to player reviews. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Damn, I hate crashes and RCE's!

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I can't Believe it!!!!

THE AI LURED ME INTO A TRAP http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Lol. I was playing Devnull Mod with some changes i made (doubling resource production, added some stuff from Gold D-2 Mod, new shipsizes) High dificulty, High bonuses, Full tech for a great space opera game. And the Drushocka declared war and have probed my borders with small fleets of handfuls of battlecruisers and small carriers. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

At which point i'm stroking a fake goatee Laughing shouting "Hahaha I'm more Evil than you" in the traditional "the british always make the best bad guys" style as i procede to warp into the next system!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Ouch!

They had tested all my borders and needless to say my fleets were spread out trying to protect them all. In this system there was more than 50 Super Dreadnoughts and 10 Heavy Carriers.

I was promptly slaughtered and I'm Now pushing everything to the front lines to form a "token resistance" I can't believe they actually lured me into that trap. And to make it worse the main system into their space that we were contesting over has just had 6 warp points opened into it (probably the drushocka) from all over the galaxy. Looks like i better rethink my plans http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Glad to see you were enjoying yourself Atrocities, as i just showed above the AI can sometimes outthink sleep deprived humans, and thats what makes it fun!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ June 10, 2004, 10:37: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

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Yes im in the same position now where the serengetti are hitting my recently colonized system deep in their space fromm all sides. With 16 fleet ships.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, you gotta watch out for those broad, grassy African plains, they have some really sneaky strategies. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Or did you mean sergetti rather than serengetti? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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LOL Good one Dogscoff http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

You think thats bad, i just took down a major druk systems defences, process the turn planning my revenge and Then find they Crew Insurrected my Troop Transports!!!!!

Maybe the AI isn't that bad so much as EVIL!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ June 10, 2004, 12:00: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

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Atrocities mentioned crashes.
So far in 18 months of playing I can't
remember having one.

I'm running xp home on a recently self built
P4.

Do other people have these problems?

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Crashes caused by se4 are extremely rare on my Viao laptop. Sometimes it'll crash after playing a few thousand turns on a single-player Proportions game, and then I'll find that the savegame is mangled and always crashes at the same point.

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I have problems with crashing if I use ALT-TAB to switch between SE4 and other programs during the AI's turns. I'm using Windows ME.

It's not just SE4. Other games also cause crashes when I use ALT-TAB. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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I have found that some AI work better than others. I have discovered the value of Null Space and Engine destroying weapons. OMG did that ever hurt.

Medium settings for AI bonus work best for average player, anything less and you can DOMINATE the AI very easily.

If any one is interested in playing the game that I started and seeing how well the Zentreadi (sp) have done, go for it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Me too, actually.
The second monitor really helps, because switching programs dosen't cause any problems, just the ALT-TAB combo.
Another alternative for single monitor people like me now, is CTRL-ESC (or the windows key) which will force the taskbar above SE4 so you can click on another program.
And yet another is to have the taskbar autohide (right click on bar -> properties). Then it will leave the thin grey line in front of SE4 and a mouseover has the same effect as the previous.

If you're on the main screen you can use the minimize, but not if you've got a subwindow up...

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You use two monitors? How?

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easy
the windows op sys has been able to accomodate multiple monitors since win 98 zand the card manufacturers have become much more adept at allowing multiple cards to coexist

the best way i have found is to purchase 2 cards from the same company not req to be the same
personally i use a radeon AIW(all in wonder) 9600 and a radeon 9200
gives me 2 monitors or monitor tv from the AIW
and a second monitor from the 9200
but remember the second card must be a pci card
(no computer i know of has 2 agp slots (design limits)

previous to the radeons i used a vodoo3 pci and a generic 8meg agp vid card


its just a matter of installing the card physically windows should do the rest without problems

only one issue the cmos sometimes has a setting allowing to set either pci slot or agp slot as primary video graphics best to make sure thts set for your present card primary before install that way new card doesnt act like replacement for present card (meaning reinstall old drivers too http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif )

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presumably you could play similar tricks with laptops (ie built-in monitro + external one)?

I know you can choose between the two or you can have them both displaying the same thing at once, but how do you have them displaying different things simultaneously?

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What psimancer said. I've been using at least three monitors for years, for a while there I had six attached to my machine. My wife called it "the control center." When I was running a labour intensive PBeM (not SEIV) I needed that many, now I find that three does the trick. Just gives you a really big desktop. Basic vid cards, $30, work fine for me...so long as you have empty slots and monitors, windows makes it pretty easy...allows me to play SEIV, surf the net, and work on a report all at the same time. Now if I could just convince IT at work to let me have more than one then I'd be really happy. Once you've had three monitors, you can't go back...

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it'd be hard to do with a laptop, unless I misunderstand them, becuase you need to have a video card for each monitor...can;t really see how you'd get another vid card in a laptop...

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The profs at school do it all the time.

The internal monitor is where they keep their desktop, and then when they launch their Powerpoint and other apps they move it across to the external monitor, which goes into the podium and up to the big projector in the ceiling.

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a laptop's ability to "extend" the desktop to an external monitor instead of cloning the existing desktop is a recent ability most laptops could not do this and were actually hardwired as incapable of running more than one at a time a request sent to free email tech support for your laptop company should determine if your laptop can "extend the desktop" onto the external monitor