100 Most Satisfying Moments in SEIV
 

In light of the "Shocking News", we need a "feel good" thread in this time of uncertainty. Here's the first 20 Most Satisfying Moments in SEIV:

1) Winning your first game against the AI
2) Building your first Ring World or Sphere World
3) Capturing your first planet with troops
4) Winning your first game against a human
5) Playing your first mod
6) Discovering the Phased Polaron Beam
7) Winning your fleet battle using strategic combat
8) Successfully completing your first "Crew Insurrection" intel project
9) Successfully completing your first "Puppet Political Parties" intel project
10) Successfully completing your first turn of your first game at PBW
11) Winning your first major fleet battle when outnumbered but having superior ships and no losses
12) Having an enemy fleet be decimated by your "large breathable" filled with Weapon Platforms
13) Discovering Stellar Manipulation
14) The first time you read through components.txt or facility.txt
15) Asking your first question on Shrapnel Forums and being greeted by the "welcome wagon" of regulars; and having the question answered in 3 minutes.
16) Building your first Baseship
17) Discovering Mounts
18) Playing "hookie" to play SEIV all day
19) Learning so much during your first game against a human
20) Seeing your construction rate on the planet after building your first Temporal Spaceyard III, with Hardy Industrialists and a 125% Construction Rate

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Hmmm, the top 4 have been out of my reach so far. But I will never giv up.. (maybe I'll ask Aaron to insert a God-Mode cheat in SE5 that only I have access to)

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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21. When you finnaly get your SE4 Gold CD.

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That's a great one!

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22. Becoming mega-evil, and being a threat to other sentient races.

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22. Blowing up the sun of an enemy Neutral race that is blocking your access to the rest of the map..... happened to me once, and boy it was MOST satisfying.
23. Sfter you hear your sun's gonna blow in three years, evacuating all population to transports and making a massive trade with a hi-tech neighbour that not only gives you a free Huge Breathable world, but also lots of new tech..... those EEE are still trying to figure out what the hell happened.

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25. Caputuring your first homeworld.
26. Finding out about fighters, and creating hordes of them on planets.
27. Blowing up a ship with mines fpr the first time.

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Error, there are 2 #21 posts, please edit your posts to correct this annomally.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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No problem.

28. Using cloaked ships for the first time, and glassing a planet deep in enemy territory.

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29. Building a huge starbase in the middle of some system and fill it with fighters. And for no other reason than to show your might.

30. Destroying the Deathstar looking baseship another player built to harass others. (He was using Star Wars empire shipset)

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31. Keeping the Deathstar looking baseship in one piece, and destroying planets.

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32. Just to show your might, send a strong fleet with a construction ship into the enemy's core home system, and use the battlefleet to fend off all attacks while the SY ship builds a Star Destroyer base..... never happened to me, but I can imagine.....
33. (personal) Blowing up a star in my Star Trek Mod.....

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34. Blowing up the star of my enemy's home system, where he had amassed his invasion fleet of 48 baseships.

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35. Placing cloaked star destroyers in every one of your enemies systems, and killing their entire empire in 1 turn.

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36. Capturing a planet for the first time, and swaping breathable races.

"What, they evolved as 8 foot tall sapient crystals, on a methane gas giant, they hate everybody, but they don't mind being relocated to a huge methane ice world, to build intel facilities I'll use against the parent empire?"

Seriously, I thought I was cheating the first time I did this.

StrategiaInUltima said:
"while the SY ship builds a Star Destroyer base..... never happened to me, but"

Just a heads up, that won't work. Stellar manipulation requires 1 movement point left, and bases never have movement.

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37. When you finnally finish your stellar manipulation ships for the first time, and slip a star destroying into the enemies homesystem via a created warppoint, then close it on the same turn.

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It wasn't exactly my first major fleet battle, but I've had something like that happen. My 18 LC's came through a warp point and found over 50 mixed enemy destroyers and LC's on the other side. Too bad for the other guy that I had already maxed out CS, ECM, armor, and training on all of these ships and had a level 5 shield generator on them (PPB were disabled in this game), while he had none of the specialty armors, no shields, no CS or ECM at all on most of his ships, and no higher than level 2 CS and ECM on his latest stuff, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he didn't have training either. Not only did I take no losses, I took no damage http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif. My enemy in that battle withdrew from the game shortly afterwards, though not before I glassed his homeworld the next turn.

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Oooooh painfull.....

38. Having your girlfriend come over to your house and discovering she is your most trusted ally in a major PBW game.
39. Having your girlfriend come over to your house and discovering she is your most hated enemy in a major PBW game.

Oh wait..... 39. is probably not satisfying, but I just thought it would be nice as near-symmetrical partner of 38.

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Have actually done this...

Imagine repelling fleets of enemy ships number upwards of three hundred in their fleet with nearly five hundred in your combined fleets, and surviving long enough to build several starbases to act as a forward base of operations.

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40. Feeling like a mad scientist/wargamer when you convert the star map into a torus shaped hex grid map by placing six linked warp points in each system.
--
TAZ (Ok, not as much fun as blowing up a star, but then I have a strange game design habit.)

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41. Making your first shipset
42. Making your first mod
43. Writing your first AI files
44. Seeing your work used by others
45. Seeing your AI beat all others in the AI Death Match - Never happened to me, but I'm sure Rollo and Belisarius did little dances when theirs came up on top.

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cant do that. no movement on bases.

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46. Setting up your own Space Empires Website!

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47. Losing three systems to supernova's in close succession in a small map against the AI when you almost never player small maps in any strategy game, but getting most of the people out, then going on to rebuild and win the game.

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38. When you have researched every available technology in a low-tech start, high tech cost game.

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39. Fighting a long hard campaign against the AI's, then when they have only a few systems left, switching empires with them. Very...challenging. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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40. Creating a triple sphere world in a trinary star system.

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41. Receiving Full Version CD for the first time.

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Hey guys, Narf had a typo in his post and it should have been 47, not 37. The numbers in the last few posts are off by 10. A moderator could fix this up in a giffy.

52. Bringing an empire back from near-total riots to complete victory against the foe that caused the riots in the first place.

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53. Creating a map with you on a very bad starting position and your AI enemies at very good starting positions, and a certain system deeeeep within enemy territory with ONLY stars..... then playing the map, and building Sphereworlds on all those stars.

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54. Winning your first game against space monsters.

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55. Winning your first game AS space monsters.

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56. Winning your first game against HUMAN space monsters.

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Gaining an enemy ship via Intel....and finding out its a black hole generator.....in my enemies main system.....with over a hundred ships in system...then blowing it all up. i was giddy with joy on that one.

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Heh, lucky for you http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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> Being on the verge of defeat in a major war, then discovering a major fleet of your ships you forgot about in enemy space
> If your enemy in that game was a human too

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Keeping only a small battlefleet to make the enemy think you're low-tech and have a weak economy, and then churn out 3 massive battlefleets a month when he declares war.....

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Using boarding parties to capture your first enemy ship...analizing it and jumping two levels in engine tec at the cost of no research....just did it 30 min ago!!!!!!!

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Yaay for you. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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57. Anxiously loading your first PBEM game not knowing what to expect and then get rewarded by starting in a system with 3 green huge planets...

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58. Get a call from your parents in law cancelling their visit so you can keep on playing all night.

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Lemme gues..... just happened to you huh?

Waking up early in the morning to go to school, then discovering you haven't got any classes today so you can start playing SEIV at 8:00. (and that's saying something. When left to my own devices in the weekend, I usually wake up at about 10:00 and get out of bed at approx. 11:00)

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The time I started a game and my home system star went nova two turns into it. That was fun.

Oh yes, all of those imfomous RCE's and the wonderfulness that came with them. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

I actually kinda remember most of my games, the good ones. The PBW game I played with Electrum, Gandolph, CNC, Tnarg, and one other but I do not recall his name... he was the Ferengi and the first 12hr turn pbw game from 2003. Those two games were the funnest I have ever been involved with.

There are so many "moments" like now, being up all night just to play one more turn, the lists that we have were all fun to make and well, having my ship set making tutorial added to the GOLD cd along with a couple of ship sets was just fricking awsome.

Making my first ship set. Making my first Star Trek ship set. Remaking my first star trek ship set. And then finally REMAKING it again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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And again..... And again..... And again.....

Winning your first game against an alliance of three very strong human opponents without any allies yourself

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Correct http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Now I just need to get rid of my girlfriend...

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Hey, that is going too far! Don't break up with your girlfriend for a game. No game is worth that, even one that's as good as SEIV. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]

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K, this isn't an SEIV moment, but SEII. But it's the most satisfying point of my SE career.

Finding a Demo version for SEII and playing it for days on end. Then asking a friend (had no internet at that time) to find info for ordering the full version. He called the next day to tell me that he could not find SEII anywhere (paused just long enough for me to start feeling disappointed), then tells me that he found, bought for me, and already downloaded the full version of SEIII!!!

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My most satisfying moment in SEIV has to be when I played the Star Trek Mod, and having the first round of diplomatic negotiations between me and the Gorn end with their reply:

"Here is a pile of S***! Enjoy!"

I laughed so hard I farted.

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Well, it's true. That has to be one of the most inane things for a diplomat to say to another. How can you expect results when offering excrement?