Man, this game is great ...

[Emperor Zodd]

Tomgs,were not talking about the Xiati at all.

[DirectorTsaarx]

Emperor Zodd: We might be talking about the "Xiati"; it's the only race whose name looks even remotely like "Xianthi"... BTW, I found a race called the "Bobroba" (in Neutral001), which might be the "Balboar" that Bluecher mentioned. After all, not all of us are perfect spellers with photographic recall of the wacky names used in the game...

[Emperor Zodd]

If so,I never seen anyone misspell two words so badly. They aren't even close!

Am I the only one here that can tell the difference between Xianthi and Xiati, also Balboar and Bobroba?

Maybe you guys should not stay up so late playing the game? LOL




[This message has been edited by Emperor Zodd (edited 29 January 2001).]

[Bluecher]

Hi all,

well, I´m sorry for my terrible spelling skillz ... Director Tsaarx is right .

Xiati and Bobroba are the races.

Ummm and I forgot to mention that I installed this :

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AI Update 1.00
1/25/2001
For use only with Space Empires IV Version 1.19

This is an overall update to the AI Diplomacy tactics for all default races and neutral empires.


INSTALLATION of Files.

The neutral races files go into the folder in Space Empires IV\AI

The default races go into their respective folder in Space Empires IV\Pictures\Races

LIST OF CHANGES/MODIFICATIONS:

MOD Version 1.00

1.) To many to name.

If you have any questions or concerns please email me at abqaiq93@hotmail.com

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Anyway the game rocks.

[DirectorTsaarx]

Don't worry about it... contrary to what EZ thinks, lots of people here have trouble with spelling, not to mention English grammar (in their defense, some of them are not native English speakers). Of course, the other problem, as I alluded to, is remembering the names of the races. I just remember what the race (and/or ships) look like, rather than the names. Kinda like I do with people - I never forget a face, but I frequently forget names...

And we don't want to scare off someone who thinks the game is great!!! We have a couple people lurking around who don't like the game very much, because the AI isn't tough enough for them. I figure they've either gotten lucky, played the game on too easy a setting, or they don't think that spending 500+ turns trying to get out of Last place is difficult. Or they've used "power gamer" tricks (serious min/maxing of attributes, not using the "All players start on equal size planets" option and then choosing Gas Giant for themselves). I could go on, but it's not necessary. I agree that the AI could be improved; it could even be designed to min/max its attributes (this might even add a little variety to the races), but the game shouldn't be dismissed because the designers didn't make the AI impossible to beat on the high difficulty settings. (BTW - try high difficulty and one of the computer bonus levels; even Low Bonus helps the computer players quite a bit; for even more excitement, allow players to start in the same system rather than evenly distributed). Besides, the AI will never have the ultimate human player weapon: reload saved game .

[raynor]

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Originally posted by Emperor Zodd:
If so,I never seen anyone misspell two words so badly. They aren't even close!

Am I the only one here that can tell the difference between Xianthi and Xiati, also Balboar and Bobroba?

Maybe you guys should not stay up so late playing the game?

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If you're gonna fit two or three 30 hour games into a week, you have to give up a few minor things like sleep and spelling

[Emperor Zodd]

For a moment there I thought you guys had a different Version of the game than I got! LOL

By the way Raynor, it's not Serengeti,(thats in Africa),it's Sergetti. LOL

I thought I was a bad speller?! LOL

[This message has been edited by Emperor Zodd (edited 29 January 2001).]