Hidden facts of SE IV

[Gozra]

Grin
I see your point and raise you one. Your command fighter, satillite, or weapons platform will have room to spare. In SEIV there are so many good players that kicking, clawing, and scratching for any legal advantge is worth while. In 'Last Man Standing' ask the Spirit of space and the La Veins Empires if running up against these stacks is any fun. 2 turns ago Spirit lost several ships to talisman armed satillites. Something like 50 Battle Cruisers.

Hidden fact:
building a planet creator ship is cheaper than a warp opening ship and faster. Then it takes one turn to upgrade to a warp opener. Shaving several turns off building a warp opener ship.

[ August 15, 2003, 04:42: Message edited by: Gozra ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ECM on your weapons platforms? Isn't that a bit like painting sheep green so the wolves can't find them?

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[Taera]

planets have about 200% penalty to be hit, ECM wont change a bit.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Gozra:
Grin
I see your point and raise you one. Your command fighter, satillite, or weapons platform will have room to spare. In SEIV there are so many good players that kicking, clawing, and scratching for any legal advantge is worth while. In 'Last Man Standing' ask the Spirit of space and the La Veins Empires if running up against these stacks is any fun. 2 turns ago Spirit lost several ships to talisman armed satillites. Something like 50 Battle Cruisers.

The 'command Fighter' concept won't work, as Fighters will only stack with like Fighters in combat, so only other 'command' Fighters will get the bonus from a Fighter with Talisman, ECM, or Combat Sensors.

Originally posted by Taera:
planets have about 200% penalty to be hit, ECM wont change a bit.

Are you certain of this?

[ August 15, 2003, 14:43: Message edited by: Loser ]

[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by Loser:

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Originally posted by Taera:
planets have about 200% penalty to be hit, ECM wont change a bit.

Are you certain of this?

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well it WILL change it... to 140%
Like that makes any difference

[Loser]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:

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Originally posted by Loser:

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Originally posted by Taera:
planets have about 200% penalty to be hit, ECM wont change a bit.

Are you certain of this?

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well it WILL change it... to 140%
Like that makes any difference

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Okay, so with both 30% armors this cranks down to a 70% bonus for the attacking ships. And that means, assuming the assaulting ships don't have any combat bonus of their own, that their chance to hit does not drop from 100% until they get eight squares away from the planet. Is this correct?

[ August 15, 2003, 16:56: Message edited by: Loser ]

[dogscoff]

Some more hidden facts about SE4:

-Putting supply storage on bases allows them to be fleeted with ships, and if it's in orbit above a planet the planet gets the resupply depot ability.

-Your race can earn experience points and save them from game to game. If you get enough points you can trade them in for a massively powerful hidden racial tech tree with weapons that can destroy planets from up to 4 systems away.

-If you start a game of se4 between midnight and 1am on halloween, all ship images are replaced by pictures of witches, pumpkins etc.

-If you meet a player in an SE4 game whose emporer name contains the letters 'F', 'N', 'Y', 'R' and 'O' in any order, there is a bug that lets you get infinite minerals for the rest of the game if you declare war immediately and direct all your warships/ intel against that player.

-If you succeed in building a ring/sphereworld over every star on the map before turn 255, a nude picture of anna kournikova will be displayed as your race portrait.

-If you play your se4 cd backwards on a record player, you will hear demonic Messages in the lost ancient language of the EEE.

-If you send money and/or nude photos of Anna Kournikova to dogscoff's home address, you will be granted masses of good karma and be guaranteed a happy re-incarnation.