Fan Sites

[Rojero]

Well to be more specific its not about the forum and stuff, I myself would like to help promote, also maybe have an IRC channel , and generall have a more updated, easily accessible place for us 4x fans to get togehter. I think in some ways a place that does feel like it is slowly dying. I may be wrong in that assessment, but I think that is the best way to convey my view, to be as blunt as how I feel about certain web sites we do have access to.

[CNCRaymond]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
I think the biggest problem with some of the Space Empires sites was that it seemed they were constantly changing and never really updating the site with anything new other than a design change. I think they focused too much on fancy scripts when a neatly designed but not too flashy site would have served fine and would have been easier to maintain and update.

http://astmod.com its simple and it works.

[dogscoff]

http://astmod.com its simple and it works.

And you really don't get much simpler than http://www.sandman43.fsnet.co.uk/se4main.htm

I remember a thread quite similar to this one (is se4 dying? Is the community finished) about half a year ago. And another one half a year before that.

No, this community has its peaks and troughs, but it is by no means dying. It has been around for a lot longer than many of us realise, and will continue to be here. The faces and the websites will change, but the community will remain for as long as the game does, and longer. IMHO the only things that could conceivably kill the community are:

a> se5 turns out to be a complete MOO3, and MOO4 happens to come out at the same time and provide everything promised by se5. That scenario is very unlikely and a year or two away anyway.

b> Malfador is either unwilling or unable to continue developping the se series for whatever reason and it comes to an abrupt end.

c> 4X games suddenly come into mainstream fashion and Se5 is a massive, global success on the scale of a big-budget game like Halo or The Sims. We are then drowned under a sea of clueless "strategy tourists" and script kiddies, all trying to hack pbw and start flamewars with the RTS communities.

d> We make first contact with the EEE in real life, making space-conquest games politically sensitive so that strategy gamers are persecuted worldwide and driven out of society by torch-wielding mobs.

But in any of these cases, we'd just adapt and survive. In (a) and (b) we'd move on to another game as an almost-intact sub-community, and/or continue as we are modding and playing the current Version of se4.
In (c) we'd survive as an elite subset of the larger fanbase and in (d) we'd live in caves with our families, secretly playing Risk with sets made of rocks and animal hides.

[ June 17, 2003, 10:26: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[trooper]

Tescosamoa Has started a big collective SE IV project, maybe he'll tell you more about it himself...

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
we'd live in caves with our families, secretly playing Risk with sets made of rocks and animal hides.

Shhhhh! Don't give Hasbro any more marketing ideas.

[Gryphin]

As for activety in the forum. It is normal for things to slow down during the summer in the US. I'd expect about a 20 percent drop in general.

[Fyron]

also maybe have an IRC channel

Drop by #se4 on gamesnet IRC server! It is the semi-official channel for SE4! Well, not really, just I say it is.

So empty these days...