The Worst Things That Can Happen - Page 3

Renegade 13 · #1 March 30th, 2005, 04:48 PM

41. You play for several hours without stopping, then, remembering that you haven't saved for hours, you decide to save. Instead of clicking "Save" you click "Load"...and don't notice your mistake until your empire is reduced to what it was many turns ago.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #2 March 30th, 2005, 05:26 AM

22. You have a massive empire and you vanquished everyone except one tiny Empire which is subjugated to you and only has a single (domed) tiny planet with 10M pop and no facilities, and then every single star in your empire goes nova making the tiny race the victors..... ouch

Atrocities · #3 March 30th, 2005, 07:04 AM

23. You discover a game ending bug, report it only discover that the developer is no longer providing support for your version of Space Empires IV. (Pre-Gold)
24. 21 + 22 + And it does!
25. You run 25 turns before you realize that you had forgotten to put items into your Research Que. "ouch"

Strategia_In_Ultima · #4 March 30th, 2005, 08:05 AM

26. You make contact with a player who looks like a harmless little empire with little interest in expansion and bully him into doing all sorts of things for you, including Subjugating himself to you and surrendering a large portion of his resources, colonies, units and ships, only to suddenly find several massive warfleets of his decloak over your most important worlds..... say goodbye!

El_Phil · #5 March 30th, 2005, 08:21 AM

27. You accidently end up as a neutral race and unable to leave your starting system.
28. Then the star explodes

Strategia_In_Ultima · #6 March 30th, 2005, 09:07 AM

29. Just before your star explodes, a colony ship full of pop is launched into a distant system by a Spatial Anomaly event..... right in the middle of the front lines of a massive war between the two top ranking players. Kaboom.
30. You are at war with an enemy who demands your surrender every turn except this one. You offer your surrender this time, but the only reply you get:
"Get lost sucker."
and he parks a star destroyer over your homeworld star (as he's already glassed all your colonies outside your HW system).

NullAshton · #7 March 30th, 2005, 09:36 AM

31. You make a fleet of 100s of ships, then find out too late that you didn't put weapons on it because you were waiting to get one more level of a weapon tech. (this happened to me before, but I only had 5-10 ships)

Starhawk · #8 March 30th, 2005, 09:43 AM

32. You warp your brand spanking new battlefleet of 200 superdreadnoughts right smack dab into the enemy fleet of 300 superdreadnoughts who get first shot because of the warp point rule (OUCH!)

33. Your newest class of starship is still inferior to the oldest class of your enemy's.

El_Phil · #9 March 30th, 2005, 09:47 AM

34. Your modding a new weapon, make a slight mistype in one of the weapons mounts but don't notice. Then hundreds of turns into a game you engage one of the enemy fleets and get totally mullered because they can do a hundred times more damage than you actually intended. And you didn't build any of them.

Atrocities · #10 March 30th, 2005, 10:11 AM

35. You finally amase an invasion fleet with four full large troop transports, but you forget to include a mine sweeper. Need I go on?