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Forum: Space Empires: IV & V March 22nd, 2002, 12:18 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 5,443
Posted By Mordante
Re: In Review: Best Fleet Strategy

I think people have more or less covered the flaws in this. Glad its evolved from speed 3 dominate the sector though ... Scary to think how many mines a homeworld can be made in the time it takes...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 13th, 2001, 01:46 AM
Replies: 269
Views: 85,190
Posted By Mordante
Re: War....

Well my world view changed on tuesday I can tell you. I'm British, and I watched the developing massacre live on BBC, and besides offering my sympathy and best regards to anyone who lost friends and...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V September 9th, 2001, 05:56 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 971
Posted By Mordante
New pbw game needs players ... come on if you fancy a bash!

Spiralwar
Status: Game open to new players

Game description
A brutal knifefight in a spiralarm cluster ... no intelligence projects or surrender allowed. Victory goes to the empire with 200% of...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 18th, 2001, 03:41 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 6,926
Posted By Mordante
Re: Strategy Guide in the Archive

Thanks dubious ...

I will be updating the "face of the enemy" after action report during the week (when I get some time) - it does have plenty of late game detail and some discussion of hideous...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 16th, 2001, 11:56 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,415
Posted By Mordante
Re: Face of the Enemy (an endgame clash of fleets)

Part 2 - or, "the strange fate of the Vaculuum Protectorate"

While the opposing fleets prepared for physical conflict and final preparations were made for the various invasion plans another...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 16th, 2001, 06:22 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,415
Posted By Mordante
Face of the Enemy (an endgame clash of fleets)

Right Chaps, a while ago I promised a report of the outcome of the clash of fleets envisaged by my "face of the enemy" post and here are some initial thoughts. Despite the various PBEM woes involved...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 16th, 2001, 01:00 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,975
Posted By Mordante
Re: pbem hosting hell!

*happy news* - the hosting program managed to process the latest turn after more than 2.5 hours doing an impression of a crashed application (the dialogues had disappeared, the process counter had...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 15th, 2001, 01:49 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,975
Posted By Mordante
Re: pbem hosting hell!

btw ... i have mailed the game turn and player files involved to Aaron ... it's a nasty problem, particularly with a view to play-by-web automated hosting in the future;

How would the players...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 15th, 2001, 01:35 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,975
Posted By Mordante
Re: pbem hosting hell!

ho hum, similar problem with the next turn I tried to process, this time the hosting program pauses at 60% and remains there for a long long time. (1 hour and counting this time)

Shortly before...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 14th, 2001, 04:07 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,975
Posted By Mordante
Re: pbem hosting hell!

we have a sort of workaround so the game will be able to continue ... it involves one of the players not using fighters in the way he wanted to though

*looks like largescale fighter combat...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 14th, 2001, 02:53 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,975
Posted By Mordante
Re: pbem hosting hell!

like i said, the "not responding" thing is pretty common whil e processing my current game. At some stage in the process the completed percentage always waits a few minutes (presumably while combat...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 14th, 2001, 02:42 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,975
Posted By Mordante
Re: pbem hosting hell!

The task list in windows me does indeed show the program as not responding - but then, it shows that even when processing a turn which does later work. In this case I have tried selectively ignoring...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 14th, 2001, 12:10 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,975
Posted By Mordante
Re: pbem hosting hell!

.... well, the host program is still running ... 8 hours and counting - the computer still responds, the mouse moves, the hard-drive whirrs, but the message still shows 72% complete!
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 14th, 2001, 02:55 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,975
Posted By Mordante
pbem hosting hell!

Hmmmm, epic pbem game conclusion, large fleet battles, thousands of fighters ...

Just how long could it take the hosting program to produce a set of turn files from a complex endgame battle across...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 13th, 2001, 03:26 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 772
Posted By Mordante
Re: Ultimate Ship Design

I'll post some details in a couple of days about the ship designs I chose to fight the base-ship horde in the "face of the enemy" thread. Basically, I had to design a baseships and dreadnaughts to...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 7th, 2001, 01:09 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 4,396
Posted By Mordante
Re: The Face of the Enemy (Destroy this Ship!)

Regarding;

"crystalline armour and massive guns" - the problem is that the armour doesn't pump the shields until it is damaged (assuming it survives the damage) and since the massive phased...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 6th, 2001, 05:46 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 4,396
Posted By Mordante
Re: The Face of the Enemy (Destroy this Ship!)

"engine destroyers/small hulls" - I can see the advantages - but i do wonder about their ability to avoid all hits in a target rich environment. Unfortunately my racial traits produce an additional...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 6th, 2001, 05:37 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 957
Posted By Mordante
The Face of the Enemy (Narrative)

Stardate 2409.5 Empires at Rest, “the edge of cataclysm”

The galaxy knows a brief respite; after decades of war and destruction a new order has fallen into place, a broad axis dividing the...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 6th, 2001, 02:22 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 4,396
Posted By Mordante
Re: The Face of the Enemy (Destroy this Ship!)

re warp point limit - no, i didn't know that - very interesting and useful piece of knowledge - thanks ...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 6th, 2001, 01:58 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 4,396
Posted By Mordante
The Face of the Enemy (Destroy this Ship!)

After all my refit woes, a more amusing puzzle; in the endgame of a pbem (turn 100+) my big rival has expanded massively and built a fleet of giant base ships to oppress the galaxy. His race is no...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 5th, 2001, 10:26 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 4,396
Posted By Mordante
Re: The Face of the Enemy (Destroy this Ship!)

"dreadnaught and extended range mounts" - what are these? do they exist in the standard game ... I know that starbase weapons get range bonuses but do any basic ship mounts?

"mines for planet...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 5th, 2001, 08:03 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 4,396
Posted By Mordante
Re: The Face of the Enemy (Destroy this Ship!)

Some good ideas and interesting points everyone;

1)choice of battlefields/choke points – not an option I fear, I already have 3 maximum range (500ly) renewable (ie. Onboard repair) warp point...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 5th, 2001, 03:10 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 4,396
Posted By Mordante
Re: The Face of the Enemy (Destroy this Ship!)

1) defence modifiers are a null issue with baseships really - yes the stealth armour stacks with ecm (as would scattering too) for a +75% bonus but compare that with the +65% attack bonues and the...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 5th, 2001, 02:57 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 4,396
Posted By Mordante
Re: The Face of the Enemy (Destroy this Ship!)

1) Nullspace cannons; in my experience they are very solid weapons in the mid game where a heavy mount can actually do serious damage against a lean cruiser design. 3 turn reloads are not a problem...
Forum: Space Empires: IV & V June 5th, 2001, 01:19 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 704
Posted By Mordante
Re: PBEM refit issues - any answers?

'fraid not, batch of 5, batch of ten - still no joy... my only reasonable course of action is to split the fleet amongst existing starbases in other sectors but it is micromanagement hell.

I just...
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