cant play s.e iv anymore
 

since ive seen the screenshots for s.e v i just cant seem to get into a good game of s.e iv anymore,i start a game but soon lose interest,them pics have spoiled it for me at the mo.lol.
anyone else feel a little of the same?

Re: cant play s.e iv anymore
 

Sorry to hear it. SEIV is a wonderful game with a lot of life still left in it. I may not play as much as I used too, but I still love the game.

I spent the better part of a month making all new federation ships sets for four federation races in the STM and I cannot even use them in SEV. So really SEIV is the better game for ship modelers.

I think of all the work I have put into ship sets and it makes me very depressed to know that I cannot use my models in SEV. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif So enjoy SEIV while you still can.

Re: cant play s.e iv anymore
 

SEV isn't due until fall at the earliest, and even then will probably require multiple patches before it's really "playable". That's a long time to go without conquering a galaxy. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: cant play s.e iv anymore
 

Why not try your hand at modding for a while?

Re: cant play s.e iv anymore
 

I'm playing solo SE4 a little bit more now. I'm trying out new, unproven, borderline-suicidal tactics against the A.I. with high bonus. Just to see what happens.

Funny thing is I was just begining to work on my first mod ever, and it was so slow going that it just seems kinda pointless, what with info on SE5 staring me in the face.

Re: cant play s.e iv anymore
 

Yeah, I can't wait for SE5 to come out, too. I'm certain that I won't play SE4 very much after getting SE5, just like I don't play SE3 anymore... it's just not the same once something new and better is available.

Re: cant play s.e iv anymore
 

I'll continue playing SE4 for as long as the PVK Proportions Game 1 on PBW continues to run. Or until I get wiped out of the game, one or the other.

There's a few decades left in that game alone, I think.

Re: cant play s.e iv anymore
 

I wonder what the oldest and the longest running games on PBW are.

Re: cant play s.e iv anymore
 

Well, that one I just mentioned is at least 3 or 4 years old...

And I've been in it since turn 1!

Re: cant play s.e iv anymore
 

How can a game run that long without coming to some type of conclusion? Is this a one turn per week type of game, or have the players sorta agreed to "play nice" with eachother? In the games I've been in, once a guy gets pretty large, the game sorta goes to another phase where it resolves itself: either the big guy is killed by the smaller guys uniting, resulting in the smaller ones dividing up the spoils (and usually giving them the spur to go for broke themselves) or the big guy gets so powerful that nobody can stop em. How is it that a PBW game has gone on for so long?