Favorite aspect of 4x games

narf poit chez BOOM · #1 May 15th, 2008, 08:02 AM

26 ship designs, 10 starbase designs in Stars!.

At least, the last version.

Ed Kolis · #2 May 15th, 2008, 09:32 AM

Hugh, your story of how you got hooked on Space Empires sounds EXACTLY like mine... even down to the part about playing MOO2 in the meantime because my computer couldn't run SE3! Well, OK, I got my first taste of SE2 on a Reasonable Solutions shareware compilation CD, not a 1001 Games shareware compilation CD, though I did later find it there as well...

aegisx · #3 May 15th, 2008, 10:01 AM

I started out on a PBeM game called Dominion. Had a text file with all the rules and another with all the ships. It had a GM, so we could do things like send ideas for new tech and he would translate it into the game rules. For combat, he wrote up a play by play. There was an amazing amount of flexibility. So much plotting and planning

I tend to play these games, not with the goal to 'win.'