Where can I make a star?

[MaxKaladin]

You don't have to build a star in the center of the system. I found this our when I was trying to figure out how to make stars (I've only had the game for a couple of weeks). I would pop into a system, make a star thinking I needed to be WAY away from the middle because, after all, a STAR is going off. That's a heck of a boom! Well, I got nothing and couldn't figure out why. Finally, I realized I was creating them in the same sector as my warp point and they were being hidden under the warp point graphic so I didn't see them right away.

Anyway, I figured out what I needed to know about where I could build stars and now have four sphereworlds in my empire. Frankly, I see little use for these things because they take so much technology that it seems like the game will be all but won by the time you have one. But, perhaps I'm wrong.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

prestige, mostly. Someone who's more awake and could actually find it could probably post a funny link to a wiki page about that.

[Kamog]

Yeah, sphere worlds are nice to have but it takes a really long time to fill them up. I have never played a game enough turns to research the technology, build the sphere worlds, and completely fill them as well. By the time I stop playing a game, my sphere worlds are less than half full, if I constructed any sphere worlds at all.

[capnq]

prestige, mostly. Someone who's more awake and could actually find it could probably post a funny link to a wiki page about that.

You mean this page {link}?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by capnq:

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prestige, mostly. Someone who's more awake and could actually find it could probably post a funny link to a wiki page about that.

You mean this page {link}?

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Yes, that one.

[Fyron]

I just got a 404 on that page... :-\

[narf poit chez BOOM]

works for me. here's a copy-paste:

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Imperial Ego

Space Empires IV is a game about conquering the galaxy, so it tends to appeal to the kind of people who... well... want to conquer the galaxy. This means the SEIV community has more than it's fair share of power-mad, totalitarian egomaniacs, desperate to demonstrate their ultimate superiority and bend all creation to their will.

Conquering the galaxy and referring to oneself in the third person is one way to do this, but once you've done that a few times you start to look for something new. This has led to the existence of certain "status symbols"- mighty feats of prowess and power to be achieved because conquering the entire galaxy just isn't impressive enough . These things will not help you to conquer the galaxy - they are so ridiculously expensive or impossible that you can only contemplate them after you have achieved complete mastery of all you survey:

* The Triple-Molly.
* Building a battlemoon loaded so full with self- repairing armor that it can survive the centre of a black hole indefinitely.
* Conquering the entire quadrant except for one planet, then swapping sides with the AI and fighting your way back up - one planet against the entire galaxy - to win again.
* Building even one new cultural centre in a Proportions game.
* Filling a sphereworld (using an ?advanced storage race) with cultural centres.
* Re-sculpting the galaxy's warp point connections so that a ship can get from any given planet to any other in 10 movement points.
* Re-sculpting the galaxy's warp point connections to spell out your name.

Given enough patience, most players can carry out the above against the computer. For a real challenge, try to achieve one of them on PBW.

Last edited on October 26, 2003 12:52 am.
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