Random Thoughts, Observations, and Questions...

Suicide Junkie · #1 July 31st, 2006, 12:28 AM

You should build the regular facilities first, since you can do them in one turn each.

Then replace them gradually with monoliths, since the monoliths take a while to build.

Wade · #2 July 31st, 2006, 12:37 AM

Thanks. I had that in mind too but are all those steps neccesary ecspecially if my empire is rich?

A "regular" Facility 2 is taking .1 year. A Monolith Facility 1 is taking only .5 years.

Wade · #3 July 31st, 2006, 01:37 AM

-----With the sudden influx of new players that Space Empires V will bring I think that 'Strategy First Forums', being the official site and where they'll go, might become our "hangout" more so than Shrapnel Community.Com.

If only 'Strategy First Forums' could set theirs up like this one with number of views, last poster, have the standard setting begin with "show all topics", etc.

Kana · #4 July 31st, 2006, 03:17 AM

Yes they need to revamp their forums...Of course...I'm sure we can still hangout here, and of course SE.net

capnq · #5 July 31st, 2006, 01:04 PM

The first thing Strategy First needs to do with their forums is make them easier to find. I don't remember how I got to their forums the first time I went there, but I didn't think to bookmark the forums page, and the next time I went back, I had to use Google to find the forums again.

Suicide Junkie · #6 July 31st, 2006, 09:40 PM

Oh man, I recently went there to try and find the patch, because the link on malfador.com was broken.
Thank goodness for flashblock. There were are lot of crazy hoops to jump through to get anywhere, and none of them were obvious.

Fyron · #7 July 31st, 2006, 10:44 PM

I can see 2 main ways to get to the SE4 patch page, which seem pretty straight-forward to me, given how many games they have to support.

1)

If I go to Support > Patches, there is a direct link to them, albiet in a huge list of all. Using the dropbox to select SE4 goes to a page with the 3 patch files for it.

2)

In the Flash menu, mouseover Games, select Browse by Genre. On the page that loads up, go down to Sci-Fi, click on Space Empires IV Deluxe. On the SE4 page, click on Downloads.

2a)

There is a direct link to the Sci-Fi genre games just below the Flash menu. This goes to a page with more info on each game in the genre, rather than just a big listing, but it's still easy to get to SE4 with a find on page.