[Atrocities]

Hey Boz,

I first bought SEIV and then a year later SEIV Gold because both games had what I wanted. In the time since SEIV was originally released we have had only one or two other 4x games come out. SEIV Gold was released a year after SEIV, and to me it was a new game. And indeed it was.

I did not take advantage of the rebate because I wanted all of the money I spent to go toward Shrapnel and Malfador in the hopes that SEV would be developed.

In the Last three years I have played SEIV so much that if you added the cost of both CD's and divided it by the amount of time I have played it, I paid less than .0000012 cents for it. The only other game that I have paid this little for was Tribes.

The value of a game is in how often you play it. Not what you pay for it, but how long you play it.

SEIV Gold is going strong with new players coming to the game each day. If I had but one peace of advice to offer, it would be buy GOLD and and sell your Standard on ebay.

I should also point out that Mac is correct and I do distincly remember most people who posted in the old forum saying that they would gladly pay for a Expansion pack. I was one of them, and for me buying the Gold disk was as important because I had material on the disk. That is right, Aaron saw fit to include some things that I had done on the GOLD CD, and I also contributed, ever so slightly though, to TDM Pack. It was an honor that to have my work included on a game CD that I had to have it. I have since bought a coupld more disks and given them away as presents.

I have made it a point to tell as many people as I can about the game, and to promote it nearly everywhere I go on line. I was especially successful at the MOO3 forums after that game flooped.

Spend the Cash for the gold Version, it is worth it in more ways than I can explain.

[ August 22, 2003, 06:07: Message edited by: Atrocities ]