What are the best websites?
 

what are the best websites for Space Empires IV gold, and would you please supply the links? thank you!

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no good sites huh? oh well guess I'll have to find a better game that has better support..... come on there have to be some good sites!

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Well, www.spaceempires.org is going to be a great site once content gets added by Hadrian. He's always working on some far flung project.

There's http://universalshipyards.tripod.com, has lots of shipsets and is currently in a redesign stage too.

Look for Atrocities on the board and click on his link, his site has lots of shipsets too. Andres Lescano has a site too.

Unfortunately, many of the other ones are outdated and unloved, but hopefully that will change soon with the release of gold.

[ 13 March 2002: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]</p>

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Better support? I don't think that's possible.

Here are some sites:
http://universalshipyards.tripod.com/
http://se4kdy.cyberwars.com/
http://www.spaceempires.org/
http://usefans.net/index.php
http://www.solar-outpost.com/DIR/
http://www.geocities.com/hohoho611ca/
http://galileo.spaceports.com/~b5mod/
http://galileo.spaceports.com/~kazharii/

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I have been working on a site that is related to strategy and tactics. fourth revision, not happy with the look. I must say that it is a huge undertaking, considering the many different ways of playing this game. I've been playing to long to see the forrest fo the trees. the way I figure to have this site make any kind of use would be at least a dozen catagories, plus many sub-catagories below this. basically a full time job. I gave up after reaching 64 plus pages to organize (let alone content).

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Mudshark:
Hey, you want any help making the site? I mean the coding aspect, not the strategy part.

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MS:

IF gets my recomendation http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif Also, is the site able to be viewed yet? Would love to post a link to it when it's up!

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I suspect the slow response was mainly due to two things:

1) Gold hasn't been out long enough for people to set up sites specifically for it; AFAIK all the sites recommended so far were supporting SE IV before Gold was even announced.

2) The people who run the best sites are too modest to plug them themselves.

A good site for managing multiplayer games is
http://seiv.pbw.cc

PBW is already set up for Gold, and in the process of setting up support for Gold mods.

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I have uploaded the draft that I worked on today at work, it is in the New Scenario/Mod Forum
under tools/help. I managed to cut it down to roughly 35 pages. Not much content yet, but it is a work in progress. Any help/suggestions will be appreciated. Much of the content was "greaned" off of this forum. still need to make it more of a question and answer style. I did start a yahoo group just for Space Empires stratigies and tactics. this may be a starting point for adding new content.

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Now I am insulted! Not one of you mentioned New Age Ship Yards (NASY) Oh this just goes to show how knew many of you really are. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
New Age Ship Yards

LINKS at NASY

[ 15 March 2002: Message edited by: Atrocities ]</p>

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Atrocities, I mentioned it!

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr> Well, www.spaceempires.org is going to be a great site once content gets added by Hadrian. He's always working on some far flung project.
There's http://universalshipyards.tripod.com, has lots of shipsets and is currently in a redesign stage too.

Look for Atrocities on the board and click on his link, his site has lots of shipsets too. Andres Lescano has a site too.

Unfortunately, many of the other ones are outdated and unloved, but hopefully that will change soon with the release of gold.
<hr></blockquote>

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For me i go to, http://www.malfador.com/ site theres a tab called players sites. click this and most or all are here . its my first or secound stop, my first would be this site for news etc.
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #1 Once you have there money...You never give it back.

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Mudshark:
I decided to make you some frames and such for your web site. Here it is:

Web Site.zip

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Looks great IF, I know that you spent a bit of time re-doing the(almost)site. I took a look at your webpage, excellent work! Made me rethink the organization a bit. Do you think that the basic structure is sound? Or perhaps each and every weapon, facility, and whatnot should have it's own page? A huge undertaking (but the most complete)linked to it's own major heading (ie. facility=&gt; space port, then what a spaceport does). Or just a basic primer that can be gleaned of of the Shapnel forum. I did start a yahoo group that is related to just strategy and tactics for space empires, my thought was a Q&A type forum. OK fingure are tired! LOL

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Well, maybe not an entire page for every facility and component and all. If we had 1 page (or a few if it gets really long) for all the facilities that had on it a short description of each facility, then that wouldn't be too hard to do. Something like:

Spaceport- is the basic foundation of each system. Without it, no resources within the system will be used by the empire. Make sure that it is one of the first facilities that you make in a new system.

Resupply Depot- is essential to maintaining a operating fleets of starships. Running out of supplies is very bad. Build these early in newly colonized systems that are far from your homeworld(s) in order to extend the range of your colony ships.

Mineral Miner Facility- Minerals are the back-bone of any SEIV economy. Always build many of these as early in the game as you can.

Resource Storage Stations- Build lots of these, especially on low value planets. In the early game, your empire will make more resources than you can use. You want to store as many of these excess resources as possible. Try to never allow your storage to max out. Always be one step ahead. This will help you a lot in the later stages of the game, because your empire will be able to operate in a deficit for much longer if you have a lot of stored resources. Make sure to build lots of Mineral Storage, and not very much Radioactives storage. If you have an Organic race, then store up about 1/2 as many Organics as Minerals.

Well, the Last one got kind of long, but thats just because resource storage is a very important topic. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Edit:
Do you want a graphical border for the site, or just leave it as is? Making one won't take very long (the coding aspect, anyways).

[ 16 March 2002: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]</p>

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>For me i go to, http://www.malfador.com/ site theres a tab called players sites. click this and most or all are here . its my first or secound stop, my first would be this site for news etc.
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition #1 Once you have there money...You never give it back. <hr></blockquote>

The malfador links page is way out dated and has not been updated since before I became interested in the game back in August 2000.

Your right, the best site to visit is this one. Shrapnel SEIV Intel Forum is the first-best place to get information on the game.

I agree with the Ferengi, and you can download them from my site. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I also agree that resource storage is vital to your empire. Without this basic storage infastructure, your empire will fail in the long term.

Also the value of erban pacification centers EPC's can never be underestimated. They keep your population happy and help reduce the effects of enemy intel geared toward your population.

Ministers can be helpful, but are mainly ingnorant and tempory. Use them very sparingly IMHO.

[ 16 March 2002: Message edited by: Atrocities ]</p>

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IF has helped a lot with the layout of my preposed site. My thanks go out for his help, how ever this site will be a huge undertaking! Perhaps this should begin as a newbie guide, ie. the top 50 asked questions. I am willing to pay for bandwith, as a help for this cummunity. All I ask is for is constuctive ideas, and very on topic Posts. Please download IF's upgrade to my site, very good work! I do not plan on this being a Dubious Stratigy guide (as good as it was). I do ask that either you delete a catagory, or perhaps change. It is my wish to keep this under 40 web pages. Post any thoughts at http://Groups.yahoo.com/group/petemmer/?yguid=65520089 just to keep shrapnels band with low. I will of course copy and paste any content that is added to this thread to this rough draft, and publish this site when when it can make a few players happy. Will this ever be a know all? Not even possible! With them help of this community, this may be a good site!