SEIV Gold Difficulty Question

[F Te antKe]

I "de lurked" today to post my haiku about the shuttle. I took what couslee said with a large grain of salt, (about the size of the Rock of Gibraltar). I wonder if Crossfire did.
I’ve an inclination to ask couslee who in the forum he believes is qualified to give an unbiased opinion on purchasing Gold. I personally enjoy the combination of TDM and Fyron’s Quadrant Mod. I don’t think they work with Classic. They always give me a run for my money.
To make the contest a bit harder I encourage you to handicap yourself no matter what Version you play.

[oleg]

another reason fo Gold is that several _very_ good mods, like Proportions, utilize special Gold features and can not be played with 1.49

[F Te antKe]

Crossfire,
"I also go max number of opponents and no neutrals."
I have read a few places that you should minimize the number of AIs. When there are too many of them they end up fighting among themselves till you reach Mega Evil Empire. I’m not sure what the Number / size of quadrant is. I usually play with 6 TDM AI in a small quadrant.
Some of the handicaps you can give yourself:
Only use Counter Intel. – I have read the AI just does not do very well with it. I have crushed the AI using it.
Don’t use Fleet or Ship training facilities
Invade planets instead of glassing them. It is a lot harder.
Don’t trade with them
Only colonize one Planet type
Only play simultaneous games

I’m sure there are more.
Any body else? Is there a list at the Encyclopedia?

[Crossfire]

In answer to Arkon's question - Yes I am playing on high difficulty and I am playing with a high bonus to the computer players. Just to make it more difficult I also go max number of opponents and no neutrals.

About the number of Posts topic - I asked for opinions, I didn't say only answer if you have posted "x" number of times on this forum. I have been playing SEIV for a while now but I have not posted previously either. I and I hope others would make judgements based on the content of the Messages a person Posts. Otherwise I could sit here for the next week and post a few hundred pieces of drivel on this board just to "up my rating".

I did hear what I was looking for and I will be upgrading to the Gold Version. I just didn't want to hear a bunch of people say don't throw your money away its not worth it to upgrade. I only hope that they continue to support the Version I am going to buy now.