How Many Of You

[Iron Giant]

The whole reason I play SEIV is to role play in my single player games. I try to imagine what its like to "be there" and come up with little mini-dramas in my head to explain why something happened.

Like the time I had an enemy fleet closing in on an undefended wormhole, and there was a small fleet of mine in need of repair on the wrong side and I barely had enough time to close the wormhole. I imagined the commander of the wormhole closer contacting the head of the fleet:
"We have some bad news. I have orders to close this wormhole NOW".
"We just need 2 more weeks to make it though! My men, OUR men have been sacrificing their lives on the front lines! Dont cut us off now!"
"Im sorry, I have my orders... May the gods have mercy on your souls."
"Same to you, you'll need it more than we will".

Or when I send a colony ship to find out if there are mines somewhere, whoops, miscommunication

Or the time I had a race with a huge enemy fleet that was closing in on the homeworld of an ally. They had ravaged their system and my fleet showed up just in time.

Or recently, after having read "Enders Game" I imagine.... well, I wont give away the plot.....

As far as thinking about the game, sheesh, I can't stop.... I write down what I did right or wrong at the end of each game and plot out strategy during the day.

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by sachmo:
Pretty much every morning when I'm getting into the shower I think about what's going to happen in the Remorhaz universe. Now if I could just take the time to write it down...

You really should continue your story. By far it has been one of the most enjoyable reads thus far. I am serious about this, you have talent.

[hicksz]

I suffer from "just one more turn syndrome." If I just build that ship or research that tech I will quit. One night I was playing and everything was right with my race. I was ready to go to bed. I played 'just one more turn' and a warp point opens up and out comes a fleet of 40 CueCappa ship in a sector I'm developing. Now how am I supposed to go to sleep?

I think what Iron Giant said is correct. It's the feeling of being immersed in a game and that your decisions do affect millions of people. I one time killed off all of the enemies population on a planet and took a step back and said,"Wow, I killed millions of lives." That's not right.
I try to add more way to feel more immeresed in the star trek mods so I will add sounds, music, etc.

I lately haven't been playing SEIV Gold because I been focusing on modding the game. Because I work long hours, I usually try to think of new ways to mod or add something to a mod when I'm traveling between work sites. When I get home, I'll write all of the notes down and then have to wait until the weekend to test them out. I could test my ideas during the weekdays but the wife gets upset sometimes when I spend too much time with the "other woman in my life" which she calls the computer.

[ March 18, 2004, 19:12: Message edited by: hicksz ]

[bearclaw]

When I began playing PBW, it was just wargames. But now, I won't play a game that isn't RPG. What really sours things though (and it's only happened once, thankfully) is when I'm playing an RPG and my enemy is not. Kind of unexpected when a Peaceful Scientist race attacks for no reason other than a miltary weakness was found.

[Iron Giant]

Originally posted by bearclaw:
when I'm playing an RPG and my enemy is not. Kind of unexpected when a Peaceful Scientist race attacks for no reason other than a miltary weakness was found.

There-in lies the challenge to your imagination:

Perhaps they are having political problems at home, maybe a facist group is taking over their government, maybe they're secretly being assimilated by another unknown race. Perhaps it was a misunderstanding. Maybe their conflicting orders when out, your planet was attacked and the current administration has 2 choices: admit the war was a mistake or continue it to the end to prove it wasn't.

Hmmm that Last one has potential...

[Ragnarok-X]

Im thinking of games in general quite often, weither it be when going to sleep, when being on the toilett or when i need a break from work. Most times about games i recently played, and games you can actually think about (RPG, RTS and stuff)

I either think about the game in general, about tactics and gameplay, and sometimes im even thinking RPG-ish, like how it would be if and so on. I like it ^^

[ March 18, 2004, 21:09: Message edited by: Ragnarok-X ]

[gregebowman]

Well, I usually don't go to sleep thinking of the game that much. By the time I quit my session, I'm so tired the only thing I'm thinking of is laying down and to go sleep. There maybe the occassional session, while I'm waiting to go to sleep, that I'll think about. But it's usually during the day that I try to think up my strategies or research projects of the particular mod I'm playing at the time. But no matter what I come up with, my plans usually go by the wayside as soon as the enemy does something. What's that old saying about war? All plans go awry once you meet the enemy. Usually in my case, since I try to build up technology before I face the enemy, I have to build ships and weapons when the enemy inevitably shows up, especially where I'm not expecting them.