Has any one ever actually completed a full game?

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz · #1 May 21st, 2001, 08:32 PM

I'd like to see the ability to spawn offshoot games.

The scenario is this: you're well into a game and have reached the stage where it's fairly obvious that you'll win.

You then activate the "Lost in Space" option.
One of your colony ships is then "trapped by a freak wormhole in space" and reemerges in a new galaxy populated by all the races in your installation that weren't used in the original game. These races will all have medium tech and 10 (or more if possible) starting planets. You get to keep your existing tech.

It's then up to your 4 million high tech colonists to carve out a new empire in this new galaxy.

This might be an expansion pack option (along with "space monsters") that people would pay for - without splitting the SEIV community into haves and have nots.

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Resistence is futile.

Droplede · #2 May 21st, 2001, 09:30 PM

Jeltz:

Great idea! That would be a fun scenario. I've read a few hints on this board that a scenario editor may be in the works. Here's hoping that such a thing would have a good way to specifically set starting techs to make a "4m high-tech colonists vs. the universe" challenge possible.

llreye · #3 May 23rd, 2001, 01:20 AM

Not, since the early Versions/patches. Haven't been able to trace the problem in mods (devnull etc) which causes access errors.
-MKC

me3000 · #4 May 24th, 2001, 03:09 AM

only once, just to see what happens. i love 4X games (and have played them since the dawn of the pc age) but they all tend to suffer from the problem of what to do when there is simply no way for the player to loose but the player must continue to play for hours to finish it anyway. one of them moo2? had it set up that the computer players would come to you asking to yield when they were overwhelmed.

Suicide Junkie · #5 May 24th, 2001, 03:19 AM

With "Peace for 1 year" on, you just have to crush the truly nasty aliens. You can keep your partnerships with the friendlies, and have help finishing the game.
With an AI to hunt down the Last remnants of an enemy for you, the endgame cleanup operation becomes much quicker and easier.