Random thoughts on random SEIV stuff..
Well seeing as how it is very late... err early and i have nothing better to do i figured i might as well go on about space empires 4 some. this will contain vairous thoughts on various aspects of this great game. for the sake of anyone who might respond to this random act of posting, i will as best i can divide it up into parts by topic. *i apologize for any typos it is about 4 or 5 am and i am very tired and i gotta stay up until about 8am*
wondering about uses of intel and early intel,...
First off while i am playing, i usually wonder "should i bother to research intelligence". And usually i answer no. This often turns of to be a mistake beacuse late into the game the comps start bombarding me with crazy sabotage. So eventually i began to learn my lesson and get intelligence about the same time they did and pour it all into counter-intel. However in my most recent game i got exteremly lucky and had several breathable large and huge planets in my homesystem and those directly next to it. So just for kicks i got intelligence and dedicated one of those large planets to intelligence centers. And well no i had about 13k intelligence points and everyone else had zip. This of course was totally usuless for a few turns, until the segella(big tan-head dudes) declared war on me. SO i figured "what the heck" and stared using ship bomb, on any ship. The ship bombs not only worked, but the worked well. And needless to say those stupid looking mornons were very upset. And now to get to the point of all this, is early intel a viable strat against comps or even human players?
need adivice on Bases.
This may sound strange or even stupid buti have had extreme diffculty taking down starbases /w Big guns and fighters. The combo seems to work too well. The giant guns eat right through just about any sheilding and totally blow emissive armor away. And then the fighters go and pick off what i have left. And while i can take them down it just never at-cost. Is there anyone to easily take down big-guns and fighters without losing more in $ than your oppenent?
complaints about Quantum Reactors,
I just don't like these things. they seem a bit too all-powerful to me. they are realtivley small. And are staggringly cheap for waht they do. am i the only one who would like to see the quantum reactor replaced with a stepped reactor system, Reactors would function basiclly the same way solar panals do only not based on the sun. That is to say Reactor I would generate 500 supplies per turn. So if a ship ran out of supply it could fill up again, but only if it sat still. And even then these reactors would be more cumbersome and expensive than the current quantum reactors. As i feel supply is a very nessacry compenent of ship mangament. To be able to totatlly get rid of that aspect by popping and escort with an reactor in every fleet just seem stupid.
cloaks... it just seems odd to me that there is a variety of sensor types, but only 1 lump of cloacking decice that blocks all types. yeah theres stealth armor but thats not that much diff. I once started a mod on this idea but stopped due to laziness.but my idea wuz to make a specific cloack device or each sensor type. something EM noise generator do deafet the basic sensors all ships equiped with. And the mabey Gravitonal distorter, to deafet those gravtic sensors, and so on. Each one of these devices would be small and cheap on their own and only get expensive & large when you try and cram every single cloaking type onto a ship. This could also make the Phsycic and temporal scanners more usuful in that the countermeasures for those could be made very hard to research or very expensive or a combation of the two.
Combo Techs.
This si an idea for a mod i had in my head for a while. Basiclly if requires you to have 2 or more of the unique race techs. an example of this would be Psychic/Crystullgary. As you reasheach both catagorys of weapons you would discover say. Psychic Wave Cannon with a description somethin like this: A cannon that uses special crystals to focus and entisfy physhic waves. its just an idea but i like it
Racial point levels?
I prefer high beacuse it really allows you to make a distinct race that was real strengths and weaknesses. that can almost force you to play differently. With only low settings you mightn not see such a dramatic impact on play.
Sphereworlds.
Shouldn't they be bigger on the game map like a 3sectorx3sector thing. I mean if they are built around the star shouldn't they be bigger than the star. ANd how come some huge planets are bigger than their stars. it don't make no sense.
dang im tired just 1 more topic i guess and then its off to get a snack.
Stellar Manipulation as weapons of mass destruciton:
Does anybody ever use this? I don't it just doesn't seem cost-effective.
and jsut one more thing
BOB THE STICK FIGURE RULESE THE GALAXY!!
[ 20 February 2002: Message edited by: HP Delron ]
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