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[Renegade 13]

I agree Greybeard. I found out about the SE series by doing a search on the internet for "space strategy games". Found the demo for SEIII, got it, bought the game. That's why I bought SEIV, because I liked the genre and had previous experience with the game. And to be honest, how many people actually like 'space strategy games'???

[Thermodyne]

I bumped into SE II shortly after going online for the first time. Took a while to figure it out then spent a lot of late nights because I was sure that tem more turns would win the game. Then I bought a full copy and spent a lot of sleepless weekends because I just knew that 10 more turns would win the game. Any of you been around long enough to remember resolving combat between two really big SE II fleets on an old 75 MHz system? When SE III came out I quickly bought a copy and spent way too much time with it. Soon after I stumbled across the old Borg Forum, and have been addicted to multiplayer ever since. When SE IV came out, it took me a long time to warm up to it. I think the missing right clicks really took me a long time to accept. And the first release had a lot of problems running on the systems I had back then. It actually seemed to run more reliably on my older SDram systems. And I never really got a good with SE4 as I did with SE III.

[DarkHorse]

Renegade 13 said:
. . . And to be honest, how many people actually like 'space strategy games'???

I think that MOO3 proved, by all the hype and anticipation it generated, that there is a good market for a deep, well developed space strategy game.

Unfortunately, MOO3 certainly wasn't that game. I'm cheering for SE:V to fill the void. Hopefully, it can generate enough good press to build anticipation and (re)build the market.