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Old November 13th, 2004, 07:47 PM
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I found a demo of SE2 (yes, two ) on a "junk shareware compilation" CD my dad bought... looks like he helped me find a diamond in the rough!
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My bro introduced SE1 back when I was like 7 or 8. Then I found out there was an SEIV awhile back when I rediscovered my SE1 copy on an old computer and went searching the internet for something and found SE.net then found here and PBW.
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Old November 13th, 2004, 09:06 PM
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My bro introduced SE1 back when I was like 7 or 8. Then I found out there was an SEIV awhile back when I rediscovered my SE1 copy on an old computer and went searching the internet for something and found SE.net then found here and PBW.
SE1 straight to SE4? Wow, that must have been quite a shock... SE1 didn't even have warp points or designable starships!

Anyone still have a copy of SE1 around? Malfador released it for a short time free of charge, but now it's only bundled with SE3...
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I got hooked on Dominions 1, then Dominions 2, followed it to the forums here. Then I looked at some of the other games offered here. The new M.U.L.E. (Space HoRSE), Intergalactic Trader, Dungeon Odyssey, War Engine, Star Fury, and Space Empires IV

They are all hard to explain to people who expect a game to be like the ones they buy off the shelves. Lots of glitz and glamour and deleted in a month. But they all Laster more than a month.
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Old November 13th, 2004, 10:19 PM
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Yahoo search for 'design ships'. I think that's how I found stars!, too.

http://www.knightsoft.ca/

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When it appeared that STARS! supernova had no chance of ever coming out I went through a mail-order catalogue looking for a replacement to fill my 4E fix. Found SE4:Gold, it was expensive (we all know SE4 isn't mainstream so they had unboxed copies imported) but the description sounded good. Got it, played it for awhile, stopped playing for a few weeks, then took step to PBW.
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I was looking for something similar to Starfleet Battles (and found the Starfleet Command series, btw) and stumbled upon SEIII. Played it for a while without knowing that SEIV was out. When I found out about SEIV, SEIV Gold was in the works and about to be released, so I bought SEIV Gold and the rest is history.

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