Has any one ever actually completed a full game?

Dr Strangelove · #1 May 5th, 2001, 01:50 AM

Yes, I've completed a full game, and I've had the full Version for only 2 weeks. I haven't lost sleep at all.

Daynarr · #2 May 5th, 2001, 06:13 PM

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Originally posted by Trachmyr:
My longest game went 278.4 YEARS!

Unbe-freaking-lievable.

raynor · #3 May 5th, 2001, 10:12 PM

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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove:

Yes, I've completed a full game, and I've had the full Version for only 2 weeks. I haven't lost sleep at all.

Just *one* game in two weeks?

Trachmyr · #4 May 5th, 2001, 11:31 PM

Wow, I didn't realize that 278.4 years was going to be THAT much of a surprise... Most of the game I've played in my mod have gone over 150 yeras... I guess it's a mixture of playing style and my mod, I move cautiously... always securing a sysytem 99.98% before moving on... I always play with 254 systems and High Tech cost (and low starting tech). Additionally, my mod has a lot of "features" that make the game more strategic... thus slower (For instance, Ion engines I use 30 supplies, and a heavy destroyer needs 12 to get speed 4!, a battle-cruiser would need 24 (x30 x movement = A lot of supplies)... and that's not the most fuel-hungry engine (which would be Fission Rockets, you can get to speed 6 but they use 60 supplies per move).... between that, and the fact that it takes a lot longer to get a Very stong industrial base (All domed colonies can only have 2 facilities, and produce resources/ships at only 1/4 the rate of a medium planet... plus bigger ships cost A LOT more (i.e., about 75 100-ton cutters cost the same as 1 1500-ton super-dreadnought... that's 5x as expensive for the same total tonnage... but that one superdreadnought would waste all 75 cutters!)

I've done so much work on this mod, but I can't "finish" it and post it until MM gets CUSTOM GROUPS working! I was really hoping that the Last patch would include it, I guess I'll have to wait a while longer...

Magnum357 · #5 May 6th, 2001, 02:27 AM

Ya, I agree with you. I'm not sure why that is a shock for people aswell. Although I know most people like short, fast type games for SE, I personally like to take time for strategy and develope forces in long wars. I set all my tech costs high so it takes a while to develope certain types of tech. I just hope that Malfador put a high limit to the number of turns you can actualy play in this game.

capnq · #6 May 6th, 2001, 04:34 AM

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I just hope that Malfador put a high limit to the number of turns you can actualy play in this game.

I'd imagine that the only turn limit* in SE4 would be if the counter that tracks the date hit an integer overflow.

* Not counting the optional victory condition, of course.

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Cap'n Q

Sirkit · #7 May 6th, 2001, 11:41 PM

I've finished one game since late January... I considered it won when I outclassed the computer so horribly that I simply supernova'd/blackholed all of the comps systems rather than bother with diplomacy... It was the first game I played now I refuse to use any tec that destroys planets unlees their my own

makes it more interesting that's for sure.