All Time favorite SE moment

[Intimidator]

Simple,

The moment I installed this game and played it for 5 minutes I knew it : 'THIS IS THE GAME I WAS LOOKING FOR'

That was a very good SEIV moment

[JLS]

Originally posted by Intimidator:
Simple,

The moment I installed this game and played it for 5 minutes I knew it : 'THIS IS THE GAME I WAS LOOKING FOR'

That was a very good SEIV moment

As Intimidator posted. This, and
my first Proportions game is my most memorable and I lost that game to the PvK Hive.

[ June 20, 2004, 13:27: Message edited by: JLS ]

[Ed Kolis]

Every time I load up a new mod and I get that same feeling I got when I first installed SE4....

"Wow... What surprises lie in store NOW?"

[bearclaw]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Every time I load up a new mod and I get that same feeling I got when I first installed SE4....

"Wow... What surprises lie in store NOW?"

I'll second that one. I'm in the middle of my first single player game of the STM. Wonderful.

My greatest, fondest memory is when playing the Galactic Empire in the 5 Seas of Stablity game. I was on the losing end of a military operation. I had an enemy fleet approaching my home system with only 5 battleships to defend the WP. The fleet attacked with 25 warships. Imagine my surprise when I opened the game turn and found that my ships had survived undamaged, while the attackers were space dust. The next turn, I got an OCC message from the other player complimenting me on my ship designs.

[mac5732]

from the very lst game I played

[Cyclop]

Playing my first pbw game, assuming another player's race that was doomed but winning the game by forcing the stronger apponent to surrender due to massive riots. I sent fighter over planets to hover and never attack. Pretty cheezy now but 2+ years ago it worked.

Now it has to be using a star destroyer to eliminate huge fleets or building massive amount of star bases at a warp point that destroys waves of 200+ ships w/o a dent.

Best actual moment are opponents who think outside the box and are not predictable.

[AMF]

A few years ago, I found myself on a Navy vessel as an analyst, drilling circles in the ocean off a certain African country. For about a month. Well, after a week of having very little to do, I decided to load up a single player game of SEIV with the TDM mod pack (the only mod I had with me). I set it to 255 systems, high tech cost, and as many AI empires as possible, all set to maximum bonuses to see if I could do it. Never had been able to before. Well, that game sucked so much of my life, it was touch and go the entire damned way, from turn 5 till the end I had to really wrack my brain to stay alive and in the running. Every single turn brought something new that I agonized over. I snuck away at night and lay in my bunk for hourse playing that darned game.

Now, although I was still pretty new to SEIV, I thought I was an ok player until I started playing the AIs in TDM. And this game was tense. After hundreds of turns, I had one battle that I knew was critical. I watched it play out practically biting my nails. it was incredibly even, and to this day i remain convinced that the outcome of the battle hinged on one direct-fire weapon shot from my guys....that missed. The battle, I beleive, was lost becuase of that missed shot. Becuase that battle was lost, a strategic system was lost. You know the rest. For lack of a good die roll, a ship was lost, then a battle, then a system, then my empire. sigh. But it made me a total addict to SEIV.

Alarik

Edit: a few irrelevant comments deleted

[ June 21, 2004, 17:34: Message edited by: alarikf ]