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October 22nd, 2006, 04:20 AM
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Re: About the apparent lack of stock empires...
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Ragnarok-X said:
Yep, weird. Sounds like a bug to me. Either a bug, or someone was rushing.
Definitely not a bug; there just aren't any default .emp files included with the game. Any .emp file you make can be selected normally.
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October 22nd, 2006, 01:55 PM
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Re: About the apparent lack of stock empires...
Even that is not a bug. A lacking feature, yes. But how is it an error in the game code?
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October 22nd, 2006, 03:24 PM
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Re: About the apparent lack of stock empires...
Oh come Fyron. You know what im talking about. Call it bug, or a lacking feature. Its missing, and its an integral part of a game.
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October 22nd, 2006, 05:13 PM
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Re: About the apparent lack of stock empires...
A bug is an existing feature that doesn't work or dosen't work right.
Besides, EMP files require stable racial setup options to make any sense at all to the game.
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October 22nd, 2006, 06:11 PM
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Re: About the apparent lack of stock empires...
Doh. Okay i promise to differ between bug and lacking-feature from now on. Of course, there is a quite thin line between the two of them, regarding SEv.
However I didnt really know you guys are fans of nitpicking words when its obvious what im talking about. Cant you just admit it would just be normal to have premade empires, if only for flavour-reasons ?
Sometimes i think the higher your post count, the more fanboy you are.
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October 22nd, 2006, 06:52 PM
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Re: About the apparent lack of stock empires...
Ragnarok-X said:
Cant you just admit it would just be normal to have premade empires, if only for flavour-reasons ?
Didn't I just say it is a lacking (missing) feature in my last post?
Sometimes i think the higher your post count, the more fanboy you are.
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October 22nd, 2006, 07:49 PM
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Re: About the apparent lack of stock empires...
As beta testers, there is a very large distinction in our minds between bugs and missing features.
One is very much easier to get Aaron to work on than the other.
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October 22nd, 2006, 08:32 PM
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Re: About the apparent lack of stock empires...
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And it's going to confuse and frustrate anyone who is playing SE or 4x for the first time. Did someone actually make a conscious decision to not include any default human player empires? And not provide a walkthru creating your first empire in the manual, or a tutorial? Or was it just over looked?
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There ARE default human empires (at least from the demo, I've been too busy lately to install the full version  ). Use the quickstart, and you can select one of the races to play.
I would say that it would be more confusing for new players to have multiple copies of the 'same' empire that correspond to different starting options. Or more confusing to have one empire file, and have error messages pop up saying the empire is, for example, using too many racial points. Or having pre-made empire files that use the minimum racial points, and new players complain about the AI or multiplayer humans "cheating" by having bonuses that they don't have.
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October 23rd, 2006, 09:46 PM
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Re: About the apparent lack of stock empires...
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Will said: Or having pre-made empire files that use the minimum racial points, and new players complain about the AI or multiplayer humans "cheating" by having bonuses that they don't have.
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I cannot recall anyone making this complaint about the 2000 point empires included in SE IV. Has anybody else heard this?
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