Are there any female SE4 players?

[Suicide Junkie]

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]

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]

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.

[/QB]

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]

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]

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."

[Mephisto]

I have played one PBEM game with a lady for about a year now and one PBW game with another lady for several month. You see, there are ladies out there.

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Shoujo:
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... ...

ROTFLMAO

Well, that's even funnier when you go to this web site: see: #chainmail bikini

[EDIT] A better link, but you'll have to cut and paste because you can't enter URL's from the edit window.
[EDIT2] Sure you can.

[ December 17, 2002, 03:27: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]