How many SEIV games is enough?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

you could always make a util to randomly change component and facil values while your playing.

[tesco samoa]

I save my races... and use them in the next game.... I have 4 standard races a 2k, 3k, 5k and a koth one.

I save them at the end of a game with all the ships and build ques etc...

Then I just tweek them for games as needed...

That helps... ( And the ship libary is quite huge , as is the planet build que list )

Then I just automate as much as possible and pretend I know what is going on with the RP and treaties.... ( some times i get mixed up... as some posters here can tell you ... I am sure they do it as well.... I once declared war on Nodachi in 4 games in 2 days he he.... )

In answer to the original question.

Here's how not to work out how many games is enough.

Start up a couple of games. Get really impatient after the first month that they're only just getting going, and you want to play more SEIV NOW! Start a couple more games, including one 10-planet start which should be big from the beginning. Find you're enjoying it so much, you want to play MORE! Start up another game, and take over a couple of empires in existing games.

At this point discover that your original games have now matured to 90-minute-a-turn monsters, and you find that most of your spare time is spent feeding the SEIV beast. But it's still fun.

Then real-life intrudes, work gets busy, and suddenly the Last thing you want is two urgent deadlines a night, every night, when you get home.

Drop out.

This is a real story, it happened to - a friend. Yes, a friend. Heed his warning. Everything in moderation.

[Shapeshifter]

In answer to the original question

As player maybe two games are ok,but As Game Master is one enough because you will have enough to do with finding every 2 day's an new replacement player for your game.

[ May 26, 2003, 17:11: Message edited by: Shapeshifter ]

[Fyron]

Number of games is entirely subjective. No concrete answer is possibly correct for anyone but the person giving it.

[Narrew]

Ok, I have decided for myself, the games I am in are enough. Today I got up, was drinking some coffee and opened a turn that I got (a game I took over for someone) and was looking at it, and saw this one empire in a system that I didn't think he should be there, then saw that I had a T & R treaty with him, and was saying to myself "how the hell did I get a treaty with THAT guy, I was planning on killing him off" then realize that I was CONFUSING 2 different games, though that player was in both games with the same race.

So...I answered my own question, in my own way. Either that, or don't open a turn when I first wake up

[tesco samoa]

ummm thanks for the heads up

[Narrew]

whaaat? That I wont be getting into anymore games?