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[Emperor's Child]

cshank2 said:
It'd be neat if you could choose how you start out, either on a homeplanet, a home station or a home ship. Make for some interesting Roleplay scenarios.

I've always thought an interesting startup scenario would be the classic escape from the sun going nova scenario (name it the Nova mod, perhaps?). You would put all players with a single colony ship starting at the same starting point in a system with an unstable star. They would all need to move out of the system before the sun goes nova, and then play the game as normal from there. Presumably they would go their different ways, settle colonies, and eventually get down to fighting.

[douglas]

Emperor's Child said:
I've always thought an interesting startup scenario would be the classic escape from the sun going nova scenario (name it the Nova mod, perhaps?). You would put all players with a single colony ship starting at the same starting point in a system with an unstable star. They would all need to move out of the system before the sun goes nova, and then play the game as normal from there. Presumably they would go their different ways, settle colonies, and eventually get down to fighting.

I seem to remember some scenario made by geoschmo where he experimentally tried playing as if he were a neutral race (never using warp points) and eventually got hit by a supernova event. As I recall, the scenario starts on the turn with the 3 year warning log message, so you have 30 turns to evacuate your only system before it blows up, and all the AIs have had a fair while to expand already.

[Fyron]

I believe that was SuicideJunkie and the Exodus scenario. It is for SE4 Classic, so you can't play it with Gold, however.

http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/MM/SE4/Scenarios/

[Ed Kolis]

Say, once Deluxe is released, won't that mean that everyone will be able to play the scenario, though, since both Gold and Classic will upgrade to Deluxe?

[Suicide Junkie]

No, that scenario uses a P&N classic mod, and if it were possible to upgrade it to gold or better with a reasonable amount of work, I would have.

[Ed Kolis]

Oh, I thought it was just that the savegame couldn't be loaded by SE4 Gold...

[Suicide Junkie]

Gold is mostly an extension, and dosen't remove anything you can't do a different way.
But trying to get a savegame-compatible mod from classic to gold would be a lot of work. I could spend a weekend on it, but I'm pretty busy.

[douglas]

Which is why I also suggested recruiting some SE5 beta testers to test it.