Any One Still Playing This Game?

Xrati · #1 August 27th, 2007, 03:43 PM

Possum, You can buy the game at Matrix Games (or other software sales): http://www.matrixgames.com/games/game.asp?gid=342
The first and only patch (so far):
http://www.ufo-extraterrestrials.com/
The game is very tough with the original units. There is a great mod for it here (Ver. 3.12):
http://ufo-scene.com/plugins/forum/f...topic.php?1576
It's some good work and he's still working on it. Bman is the AT of the UFO-ET crowd.

JAFisher44 · #2 August 29th, 2007, 02:18 AM

I am still playing SE4. I bought SE5 but I just can't get into it. Between the fact that combat is real time, and the fact that it didn't live up to my expectations, I find it hard to motivate myself to learn to play it. I love SE4. I love the community. I love starting, but never finishing, shipsets. I don't think I will ever stop loving this game. Really, I wish that there was some way we could get access to the code so that some of the things which are hard-wired could be changed. Oh, well. Still love the game.

Xrati · #3 August 29th, 2007, 11:41 AM

JA, I also agree with you. I tried the SEV demo and never finished playing it.

I was disappointed with the game and I too enjoy SEIV.

The work that people like AT, Fyron, SJ and many more, have done on this game is what makes it so good.

This board has also been very supportive of anyone who ever came here looking for answers to any problem. Not just with the game but also other computer problems and even some personnel projects that have come up over the years. I don�t post much, but I still come here to see who�s still around. It is sort of an extended family here.

Atrocities · #4 September 4th, 2007, 01:37 PM

I firmly believe that more people still play SE IV than there are playing SE V.

Captain Kwok · #5 September 4th, 2007, 02:52 PM

I doubt that.

Makinus · #6 September 4th, 2007, 03:17 PM

i don�t know about others, but i have both games now and i play SEIV more than SEV (i hardly play SEV, just bought it, played a half a dozen times with the balance mod, and decided SEIV is more my style).

Maybe with the most recent balance mod SEV is more fun (the last one i played was 4 or 5 versions before the one available now).... ill try it this weekend again...

Fyron · #7 September 4th, 2007, 05:31 PM

Maybe if you ignore the large number of people on the official spaceempires5.com forums, you could come to that conclusion.. Sure there are a lot of old-time fans that prefer se4 to se5, but that doesn't apply to everyone, and certainly not for all the new people...

Atrocities · #8 September 4th, 2007, 06:02 PM

Ok so SE IV is dead because no one on the SE V official site plays it. Hell that is a great indicator. Has it occurred to any one that perhaps most people who play SE IV that don't play SE V have no use for the SE V site thusly they are not registered there or simply choose not to post if they are? (IE Me.)

SE V is a fine game, and I would recommend it to any 4x gamer, after I have recommended SE IV to them.

Atrocities · #9 September 4th, 2007, 06:15 PM

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Sure there are a lot of old-time fans that prefer se4 to se5

I take it, because someone likes se4 over se5, that the only excuse for that fopa would be that they are an old-time fan? People discover SE IV and V everyday and not everyone is into SE V head or heals.

All because some of us have decided that SE V isn't for us shouldn't mandate that we be marginalized as "old-time fans" because that would be a totally unfair characterization.

Some people just prefer SE IV over SE V. Thats to say that some people like Civ 3 over Civ 4. (Shudder) It isn't about being an old-time fan boy, its about personal preferences.

It has nothing to do with being a fan of one game over the other.

Fyron · #10 September 4th, 2007, 08:20 PM

Atrocities said:
Ok so SE IV is dead because no one on the SE V official site plays it.

Nobody said anything of the sort... All anyone has said is that they doubt that there are more people playing SE4 than SE5 overall. Retail tends to bring in a lot more customers in a short period of time than Internet sales, afterall... That doesn't imply that SE4 is dead, and it doesn't imply that there isn't anyone new to the series that winds up preferring SE4...

Atrocities said:
"...marginalized as "old-time fans" because that would be a totally unfair characterization. "

...what? Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed today? There was no "marginalization" implied or expressed in my post. I don't see how "old-time fans" can be construed as a negative term... It is merely a statement as to the length of time one has been playing the game(s). I fit under that category. Does that mean I was trying to marginalize myself?

Atrocities said:
I take, it because someone likes se4 over se5, that the only excuse for that fopa would be that they are an old-time fan?

What thread are you reading, exactly?