Isn't This Game Great!!!!!!!

[DirkHowitzer]

I was just thinking while reading over all of these threads...this game RULES!!! I mean how many hundreds of topics do we have here? Whoa...I can think of no other game past or present that offers such depth and complexity of playing allowing so many different strategies...incredible. Sure there are a few issues, but is the next cool thing...the issues are actually being addressed and if we take the previous SE games for any example the issues will continue to be addressed for quite some time. Whew...how was that for a sentence...;-) This forum is great to, I don't think there are very many forums that are as friendly and helpful as this. It doesn't seem to matter how trivial the question, 99% of respones are prompt, helpful, and friendly in the extreme. Truly a wonder for the ages;-)

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"He's dead, Jim."-- Lt. Commander Leonard "Bones" McCoy |Chief Medical Officer / USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

[Londo]

Ditto! What he said! We love the game and the forum!

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Vir! You have made a mess of this post once again, now give me a large cup of brivari so that I may begin to forget the bad times and remember the glory of the great Centauri Republic.

[Tampa_Gamer]

Agreed, I got hooked on this forum format when I was doing a few mods and beta testing a patch for one of Shrapnel's other games Armies of Armegeddon: Wargamer's Developer Kit 2000. This and GoneGold are really the only two forums I frequent religiously every weekday eating my breakfast at work.

[This message has been edited by Tampa_Gamer (edited 25 January 2001).]

[Elwood Bluze]

No doubt, this is one cool game. It has the best features of many of the 4X games of the past and you can modify it too. A real winner!

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Know what a wish sandwich is? That's two pieces of bread....and you WISH you had some meat!

[pathfinder]

yup, definitly one of the best. only other game I fool around with is Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord and for a break Railroad Tycoon 2. But CM & SEIV both are great...I get to make my own stuff up! ehehe

[raynor]

I have to admit that I bought the game just so I could build Ringworlds and Dyson Spheres. :-)

I also like the incredible depth of play. I made the mistake of buying Imperium Galactica a while back. Pretty graphics but over-simplified gameplay. I wonder if the AI of that game is better though? I still haven't beaten it on medium yet. Granted, the game is so dull compared to this one that I haven't played a second game yet. :-)

Mines, Satellites, Fighters, Troops, Weapon Platforms, the variety of facillities on a planet. The three types of planet types and the different types of atmospheres. All of these make for a game that is loads of fun to play. Plus, the tech tree goes much higher than Master of Orion II.

Unfortunately, that amount of complexity makes designing a good AI tht much more difficult. I know I'm going to dodge rocks for this one. But I think the AI in Master of Orion 2 is more challenging that the AI in SE IV. But again, in a month of owning SE IV, I have already spent more hours of gameplay with SE IV than in four years of playing MOO2. I think it was Baron Munchausen(forgive my horrible spelling) who summarized the difficulties of AI best. We humans learn whereas the AI doesn't. Probably, my feelings about the AI are slanted by the many sleepless hours I have spent playing this game.

I was never hooked on MOO2 like I'm hooked on this game. The Mods. Oh, the Mods are AWESOME. Rambie, if you are ever in Texas, look me up, I'll buy you the biggest steak you ever saw. I love those EA ship designs. The same goes for Mephisto and, I'm gonna have to learn to remember the names of the folks who made the other race mods. (be very embarrassed)

What I'm waiting for right now is the ability to replace all of my races with ones that play as well as the EA, Darloks and Serengeti. Now, that would be truly scary!

Did I say this game rules?