The Worst Things That Can Happen

[Atrocities]

A new list for your enjoyment.

The worst things that can happen to a player during a game of Space Empires IV.

1. Two turns into your game your star explodes.
2. You design a fleet of ships, build them, and when the time comes to move them, they have no engines.
3. You start a PBW with a moon as your homeworld.
4. You foget your PBW game password.
5. You took the Neutral Culture trait and you find out why that is a bad idea.
6. You start in a system with now warp points on a low tech high tech cost start.
7. Your system is boxed in behind a damaging warp point and a super massive black hole on the other side.
8. Your home world is the only planet in your system
9. A combination of 7 and 8.
10. A combination of 6 and 8.

[Fyron]

11. You get a classic Tesco Start (tm) as your starting location (very few useful planets withing several systems from your homeworld).
12. You start a game with "not all warp points connected" and your starting cluster consists only of your home system.
13. The four warp points leading out of your home system lead to the home systems of the Aquilaeians, United Flora, Tesselate, and Space Vikings. The four AI empires naturally ally with each other, but not you.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

14. While you're struggling to get a decent economy, an enemy star destroyer suddenly decloaks above your homeworld star.
15. You build your first colony ship and send it on its way, 1. happens just as the ship exits a warp point into another system and an enemy uses a Cargo Bomb project on you.
16. You have a massive empire with a slightly declining economy and a moderate fleet, and then suddenly everyone declares you Mega Evil and starts to churn out Star Destroyers.

edit: corrected numbers as Fyron beat me to the first reply

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

51. You play against the player 36 happened to (with no extra experience), and he owns you.

[douglas]

17. A player you've been ignoring for a long time simultaneously sends a star destroyer to every system in your empire with no warning, and you've neglected to build system gravitational shield facilities.
18. He does it to your partner at the same time. Your partner has also neglected system gravitational shield facilities. The fact that your greatest enemy is yet another victim is only minor consolation.

[Renegade 13]

douglas said:
17. A player you've been ignoring for a long time simultaneously sends a star destroyer to every system in your empire with no warning, and you've neglected to build system gravitational shield facilities.
18. He does it to your partner at the same time. Your partner has also neglected system gravitational shield facilities. The fact that your greatest enemy is yet another victim is only minor consolation.

40. You are the player that numbers 17 and 18 happened to

Hehe that still stings!

[douglas]

Renegade 13 said:

40. You are the player that numbers 17 and 18 happened to

Hehe that still stings!

Look on the bright side: you learned a very important lesson in a way you're not likely to forget. Will you ever neglect to build system gravitational shield facilities again?

[Atrocities]

49. You amase an impressive empire and are heavily addicted to the game only to hit the 100 turn limit on the demo and suffor the pains of withdrawal as you wait for your out of print copy of SE IV to snail mail its way to you.
50. Your playing along and all of a sudden you hear a loud popping sound followed by a dry screech croming from your CDRom drive. You pop it own to see that your copy of SE IV has been ground into reflective dust. (Then you go to order a new copy and find out that there are no more copies available the game, after nearly a five year run, is now out of print and sold out.)

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

'Scuse me, but I don't really get that.....

[Renegade 13]

douglas said:
Look on the bright side: you learned a very important lesson in a way you're not likely to forget. Will you ever neglect to build system gravitational shield facilities again?

Indeed