Are there any female SE4 players?

DarkHorse · #1 December 16th, 2002, 09:36 PM

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Originally posted by Chronon:
I'm actually kind of surprised that SEIV doesn't have a "peaceful" victory condition (Civ and Alpha Centauri do). I'd love to see something like 'transcendence' in SEV; it's a tried and true Sci-Fi theme, and it would be a fun alternative to Last empire standing.

SEIV has at least two peaceful victory conditions, it's just that no one ever uses them. Galaxy at peace for x years, and First to score of xx.

[ December 16, 2002, 19:39: Message edited by: DarkHorse ]

Ragnarok · #2 December 16th, 2002, 11:32 PM

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Women and Sci-Fi: kind of like BigFoot. I've heard of them and seen some pictures (like at Sci-Fi conventions) but I've never personally encountered one up close.

Nice example. But Bigfoot is a hoxe(sp?) The guy that made it up died and his family is finally admitting to it all.

I'm sure you all knew it was fake anyways but this is just further proof. Ok, you guys can back to your subject now.

And geo, as far as half your age... Just wait till I finally get my hands against you.

Suicide Junkie · #3 December 16th, 2002, 11:38 PM

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SEIV has at least two peaceful victory conditions, it's just that no one ever uses them. Galaxy at peace for x years, and First to score of xx.

There's also the "X years have elapsed".

Chronon · #4 December 17th, 2002, 12:25 AM

SJ and DarkHorse, those are good points. I had forgotten about those conditions, and I really shouldn't have - considering that I use x% of other player's score when I play the AI.

In any case, even in games like Civ with the spaceship victory, most of the multiplayer games I've played with human opponents (or for SEIV, perhaps I should say sentient beings?) end in some kind of conquest victory. That can be fun, but for some reason those very rare transcendence victories are even more fun (perhaps because of their rarity?).

Stone Mill - Somehow I thought my comments about the movies might stir up the hornets' nest a little.

Those are just my preferences, and I'm sure there are as many different opinions about them as participants in these forums. I'd be happy to have a friendly discussion of movies in another thread, if you're interested.

Shoujo · #5 December 17th, 2002, 01:18 AM

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Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Without meaning to offend anyone by making a generalization based on my personal experience:

Women don't really care for role-playing games that much either, which is too bad, bacause they add a great dynamic.

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Things've changed (I hope), but if guys'd tried to put me in things like bikini armor, I wouldn't care for role-playing either...

Pizza stains and empty cans of Mountain Dew don't exactly help the image of the stereotypical RPer either...

Suicide Junkie · #6 December 17th, 2002, 01:22 AM

Chronon:
You can also do the "Player has 100% of tech areas researched"

That would be pretty transcendant, I think.
You could even toss in a new tech area, "transcendance" that requires all other techs maxxed out as a prerequisite.

Arkcon · #7 December 17th, 2002, 01:29 AM

Tried to twist my sister's arm and get her to play SE4. I gave her the basics of ship design, and she built a colony ship with Aux Control.

And I said "Wha.. Why,... You're wastin..."

and she said, "You're in this game, I need every possible backup when you attack"

and I said "Oh, I won.. Oh, do what you want..."

She might have thought of tons of things that I wouldn't, but oh well, she just thought the game was too violent.

Probably shouldn't have shown her the planet killer in action. Heh.

Tampa Gamer's sound mod gave the organic seekers a real evil screech too. That freaked her out good once. "See, my ships don't fire missiles, they give birth to them -- and they're born angry."