Heh heh, well Raynor, you're definitely not the only one. Over here in Germany the market for games from small SW houses is, naturally, limited to SW from small german SW houses. Only by chance did I read of SEIV in a NG. When I saw Ringworlds and Dyson Spheres... well, that's the kind of large scale thinking I love best in SF. I ordered the game, and two weeks later it arrived. That is the best time I've yet had for a packet from the states. Quite fitting, as it's also one of the best games. Easily the best 4X. Only in other genres does it have competitors in fact, (Fallout 2 for RPG's for example). I've only started diddling with the data files, but..., oh my god, the possibilities, the Possibilities!
-Aegis