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Evidence That Your An Idiot Emperor If:

1. On turn one your entire population riots.
2. You click "start game" and the "YOU LOOSE" ending comes up.
3. You build a huge fleet and when you need to move it, you discover that you forgot to add engines to your designs.
4. Your ships set off your own mine fields.
5. Your Weapon Platforms accidently destroy one of your own ships.
6. The AI Ministers fire you!
7. Your population space themselves rather than be lead by you.
8. Your planets name is Dumbass
9. You name your first ship after Goofy
10. You scrap all of your facilites because they are taking up too much room at the start of the game.

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11. Your empire is conquered and mass celebrations take place.

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12. Your AI Ministers all resign.

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13. You build your first star destroyer and it immediately blows up your home system.
14. When your ships get into combat, they immediately switch allegiance to the enemy's side even though the enemy doesn't have boarding parties nor allegience subverters.
15. Every single turn, one or more of your planets declare independence.
16. Your ship ministers deliberately fly your ships into damaging stoms and black holes.
17. The ship design minister puts three self-destruct devices on every ship.
18. You only put DUC I's on your ships in a game with high-technology start.
19. You take emotionless trait and 150% happiness for your race.

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20. You choose Neutral as a racial trait.
21. You choose 5000 racial points but only use 2000
22. You name your race the "Pee Wee Fun House"
23. Your frieds incourage you to play. (Think about it)
24. You refer to Space Empires IV as Space Empires Eye Vee.
25. When you enounter a new race, you surrender.

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26. You lose to Atrocities.

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27: You list 26 after 26 has already been listed (sorry couldn't resist http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif0
28. You entire navy consists of fighters, no carriers no capital ships, just fighters.
29. You decide to test a starkiller weapon in your home system to see what happens.
30. Your people celebrate when the AI ministers put a bullet in your head.
31. Your ships hail you right out of space dock and go "Hey UP YOURS" before promptly firing a broadside into your pallace.
32. You actually USE AI ministers.
33. The biggest ship you build is a rowboat and worse still you actually launch it into space with a crew....but you forgot that pesk vaccum thingy and don't give your crew spacesuits. (very messy).
34. The name of your empire is "Suck it" (seen it done)

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35. You not only loose to Atrocities, but you have lost first to Kwok and Starhawk.
36. You are convinced that DUC I is the best weapon in the game and the only weapon you will armor your ships with.
37. You believe armor is for weaklings.
38. Your empire motto is "Failure is the only option."
39. You gift all your colonyships to your enemy by mistake.
40. You surrender by accident to your enemy when you meant to refuse. (I have seen this done.)

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OOOOH.
41. You marry a Ketchup heiress for political funding hehehe. (sorry sorry it's just something that came to my thoughts for some reason)

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42. You're me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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It's also not true - Kerry took no funding from his wife. (sorry sorry it's just something that came to my thoughts for some reason)

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Oh it was a joke http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif get over it.

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43. The AI controls your turn, and does a better job.

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44. You forget to put anything into your research queue on the first turn, throwing away 100k of research points (ahh, who needs 'em). (Oops, I did this one!!)

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Me Too http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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ROFLMAO That was a good one. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

<font color="brown"> NO POLITICAL DEBATES </font> http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif Jokes only, we all have a sense of humor so lets keep an open mind.

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45 - Your ships refuses to obdey your orders and they go away to form their own empire.
46 - You're defeated by me!

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47. You think that spaceflight is the utter evil and devote all your time to improvement of your Homeworld.
48. Your game crashes all the time with error "Fatal error, moronic players are not supported".
49. Your score is negative.

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50. Your whole objective in life is to conquer your own rebelling worlds (which you cause to rebel repeatedly by stupid management).

51. You constantly receive Messages from the AI empires offering to GIVE YOU some troops just to stop the rebelling worlds! And your dumb enough to accept!

52. You never build anything larger then an escort even when you have Super Monitors available because you just love the word Escort.

53. You spend hours on end trying to figure out why those tiny worthless ships are CALLED escorts when there is nothing in the game to escort.

54. You drop plague bombs on your own world to see what color your citizens will turn before they croak.

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45. You can lead a horse to water...No, wait, that's the other guy.

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Absolute genus! This one is damn funny.

55. You dedicate your planet in memory of Gohmer Pile (sp)
56. All of your ships master computers are programed by Microsoft.
57. Your ships master compute is a 386.
58. The Last time you took an IQ test your score was negative 100.
59. You kill off all of your population over the number 1000 because you cannot count any higher.
60. If you accidently shot yourself each time you clean your bLaster.
61. You were the reason they put warning lables on Light Sabers.
62. If Jar Jar Binks is considered a genius by your standards.
63. If you repeatedly order your ships to crash into each other because you think the sound they make is funny.
64. If your code of arms is a picture of Elmer Fud. (sp)
65. If you have Banned PBS broadcasting from your worlds because they killed off Elmo.

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66. If you find that 5 colonised planets is a huge empire which is impossible to manage.

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67. 'You mean you can colonize planets?'

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ROFLOL

Rasorow

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68. You give your entire empire to the enemy, simply "because they looked so cute and helpless".
69. The Phong enjoy eating your people for dinner, and you invite their ambassador (plus a few of his "personal guards" (aka, chefs specializing in preparing humans for dinner)) to dine with you, alone, in your private dining hall.
70. When neutron bombs are dropped on your homeworld, you order your ships to NOT attack, simply because you like the sizzling sound made when your people are vaporized.

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For fairness:
Your initials are "GWB"

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71. If you win more battles when you forget to set your fleet strategies.

72. If you try to ram stars or warppoints in tactical combat.

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73. The only thing you are able do with your new warship is to scrap it.
74. You really think that there is enough room in the galaxy for two.
75. Your favourite strategy is called "Sitting duck".

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76. If you make your ships not fire back because you like the colors they make when they blow up

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77. The dog takes YOU for a walk.

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78. You ignore the single enemy next to your home star.
79. You send your entire fleet after a lone enemy escort.
80. The single enemy escort wins.

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You would be surprised. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Never mock the almighty Escort of Doom. Frigates might be preferred from time to time, but the point stands; these little ships can be deadly if you are caught unaware.

81: You somehow manage to research Resource Converters, and put them on Repeat orders. Several months later, you are still wondering about what happened to your collapsing economy (do not worry though; you aren't the only one, as this mistake is probably one of the most common).

82: You have set your neighbouring system(s) as "Systems to avoid", and ticked the "Ships should not travel through restricted systems" option. The same goes for minefiels.

83: You have confused the "Demand surrender" option and "Surrender", and/or the "I want to be subjugated!" and "I want to subjugate you!".

84: You have been researching Tachyon Sensors and Organic gathering (from level IV to IX). In a high-cost research game.

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OK. Funny true story: remember the NGC4 game? Well...in order to save my life I offered Roanon (Primeval) my subjugation. Unfortunately for him I offered the "you become subjugated to me treaty." If it had been intentional it would have been a great little tactic becuase, suddenly, the most powerful empire in the game was my subject. Talk about a boost to my struggling economy. I loved it. Of course, had to scrap the treaty the next turn...but it was quite a hoot.

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I was thinking of a strategy like this. A small ship, large enough just to hold the right number of boarding parties to take over a larger light cruiser/battle cruiser type ship. Armed with one puny weapon. Once a ship's shields are down, it goes in for the kill.

Brian

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You do not actually need a weapon for such designs, unless you want to make them enter the fray as soon as the battle starts.

But you are not mean enough with a mere handful of escorts; you should back them by a few Storm Creators instead. Some wonderful combat to-hit minuses and shield removing storms would certainly be a nice addition for your boarding fleet. Of course, you still need to lure the enemy to your trap, and a few Security Stations would ruin your day, but if it does work... bring the champagne!

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Here's an excuse to enter the trap then...
85. You send your ships into random storms "because that's their mission, isn't it? To explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and civilizations, explore uncharted anomalies?"
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Don't think that one really works. A spaceyard ship could be hiding in the storm, so it would then be a good idea to explore it.

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86. You suddenly realize that all of your most trusted advisors are true blonds (not just the hair color).

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87. You nuke your own home planet

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87 a. You nuke your own home planet by mistake
88. The Last thing you remember doing before you went to bed was alt ctrl del out of your game, and much to your surprise when you went to resume your game the next day there was no save game file.
89. You save your game but your computer deletes it out of shame.
90. You are barred from buying SE V.
91. You download SEIV off of the internet thinking your clever and then discover you downloaded 1.49.
92. You order your planet killing drones to attack one of your worlds whole by mistake.
93. You solve your rebellion problem by blowing up the wrong planet.
94. You blow up your own home system to prove to your enemies that you are a mean SOB and that they should not mess with you.
95. Your people refer to you as the Pimple on Gods ***.
96. You are invited to dinner on an allies home world and when you arrive you present them with a gas bill for your mileage.
97. Your Queen is also your Sister.
98. Your troops are so stupid that they are beaten in combat simply by placing a single vashing bomb in their path with the words "Pick Me Up" printed upon it which they all do one by one until there are none left. 'They have to be realllly dumb to fall for this one.'
99. You military leaders are all cross eyed and have failed first grade.
100. Evidence That Your An Idiot Emperor If you identify with five or more of these entries.

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101. You have never finished a game......ever. Because you always inevitably someone else's game over yours. (I've done this....every time.

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I have considered this on purpose (but only because I consider and analyze all possibilities, including "will my partners fleet coming to help me suddenly attack me" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif) but wouldn't cheat like that http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

102. Built an expensive planet builder and then sent it to a system with no sun.

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103. You think that SEIV is a dull game because it doesn't allow you build even Pub I and Wal-Mart I facilities.
104. You believe that numbers "74% 37% 136%" in the planet window mean the strength of alcohol drinks produced there.

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105. You spend several days starting at your TV, trying to figure out where is the APB channel. ("American Premium Broadcasting")

106. You refuse to cross any wormhole since an AI has told you to "beware of strange wormholes".

107. Likewise, you took the "mineral planets are the best" motto too literally, and only build mineral extractors. You wonder why your two DUC I escorts have been beaten by one hundred APB XII dreadnoughts.

108. You have been crushed by said dreadnoughts, and still wonder at that. You thought these ships were actually called "Dread-nots", and carefully followed this instruction.

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109. You just spend the whole game building star killers then nova every system you see.

110. You NOVA BOMB your allies entire navy by accident (someone did that to me and I was pissed I lost 140 dreadnoughts/superdreadnoughts and about 2000 troops!

111. You declare every thursday "free booze night" for your Empire and are suprised when the enemy suddenly attacks every thursday during happy hour.

112. Your National Anthem is "Shake your Booty" or "Disco Inferno".

113. Your leader's name is Bubbah and your highest level of military technology is "Da Shot Gun"...

114. You run your empire like the Federation of Planets (I.E. you make peace with everyone even after they butcher millions of your people.)

(Edit: I just changed the numbers thats all)

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Theyre not??????!

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115. You put being friendly and helping potential competitors above the good of your own people.

116. You allow neighbours, and allies, who could turn on you in 10 years free reign through your systems to spy on all your planets and defences.

117. You don't start exterminating every Last religious zealot in a race as soon as you discover them.

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118. You are a religious Zealot with the ability to use the Talisman but never do because it costs to much.
119. You are the Federation of Planets.
120. You believe that it is better to wait 20 turns before you begin colonizing space on the assumption that faster engines, via 20 turns of research, will make you colonize faster thus making up the time you lost. (I have seen it done people)

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121. You forget to bring along some of your own species on every troopship that just traveled 5 turns to get to a planet you plan on conquering because "hey! That's MY atmosphere and it's HUGE!"

123. You forget to scoop up some captive "other Breathers" before jettisoning them out of sheer frustration associated with haveing done 121.

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124. You are lucky enough to be able to capture a planet but find to your displeasure that the people of said planet breath a differant atomsphere than you so you anihilate them and repopulate the planet with your own people using domed colonies. Duhhhhhhhhhhhh
"Well if they don't breath oxygen, I have no need for them."
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