Getting Burned Out

[Rich04]

I use single player to test stuff out like Deathstalker. I find it useful when I encounter game settings I have never used before on PBW. I fire up the machine and play 50-60 turns in that enviroment. I have found that strategy can vary considerably with different game settings and helps me to adapt my playing style.

[Aristoi]

I can agree with that. I don't play the single player anymore, and I havn't for a few months, at least. It almost becomes like playing Dragon's Lair, where you just have to know the right moves and the AI folds.

The thing that I always find frustrating is that the AI seems to be completely oblivious to the kind of damage he is doing to a player. He never knows when to press an attack. I once had an AI take me to the ropes, and then just walk away and he didn't return for nearly a year in any force. By then I has a huge fleet and cleaned him up. Yet I was nearly defenseless before. Alas.

To make up for it, I just play about 5 PBW games. Even the greenest of players are at least suprisingly unpredictable.

[Baron Munchausen]

Hey, SE IV is unlike other 4X games in that you can mod it so easily and extensively. When playing gets boring, go back to modding. When modding gets boring, play test your mods for a while. If you get bored with both... well, there's a new patch with some new features coming out soon.

[God Emperor]

Atrocities,
I have just updated my Borg variant, Romulans, Klingon and Shadows races, and have produced AI for the Praetorian, Jraenar and UkraTal.
Am doing doing a final v1.49 play test but I promise you that they are good researchers and expand like berzerko.
I recommend that you give them a go once released!

Regards,
GE

[This message has been edited by God Emperor (edited 28 October 2001).]

[Atrocities]

Thank you all, your comments are right on the money.

Thanks GE, I look forward to it.

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New Age Ship Yards

"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Captain Picard STNG

Borg Breen Species 8472 Cardassian Dominion STNG Ferengi Klingon Romulan
Trek Movie era TOS Illuminati Starwolf

[Captain Kwok]

I go through phases. There are certain times where I'm more into playing the game, other times where I'm into modding or building bits and pieces of shipsets that I never finish. Every once in a while I lose interest for a few weeks - but that is usually because I don't have a lot of time to be as involved as I would to be.

Captain Kwok = Captain Spoogy

Just thought I would mention that. I'm working on a new project (race) for Space Empires IV. It's a bit more time consuming since I decided to model my own image map textures for my shipset. Who knows when or if it will ever get done!

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"Reality is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there..."

[Atraikius]

If you want to make a single player game a real challenge and mentally challenging - try playing it with your race being completely controlled by the AI, and only making directions by making changes to your AI files.