Anyone know the answer to THIS Deluxe Q's?

[Ed Kolis]

http://www.strategyfirst.com/en/game...r/?iGameID=134
A third edition of Space Empires IV to be sold in retail stores by Strategy First, the publisher of Galactic Civilizations.
Deluxe will support more types of music than just CD-audio; I think the new formats are MP3 and MIDI, at least judging from the music support in Starfury.
Bugfixes and other enhancements may or may not be present; nobody really knows yet. Maybe (just maybe) Aaron will elucidate this tomorrow should he appear again on IRC???
David Gervais mentioned once that the game would sell for $19.99, and Aaron said that he plans to release a patch from both Classic and Gold to Deluxe, pending approval from Strategy First (but he has brought it up to them and they haven't *objected* yet )

[Captain Kwok]

The aim of Deluxe is two-fold:

1. Introduce the Space Empires franchise to new gamers
2. Bring users of Classic and Gold under the same banner

I don't think there are any data file changes, so SE:IV Gold games should be easily upgraded.

[Fyron]

Ed Kolis said:
Deluxe will support more types of music than just CD-audio; I think the new formats are MP3 and MIDI...

I've heard Ogg Vorbis. Yay for superior compression technology support!

[Atrocities]

Deluxe will also come in a nice looking box.

[kerensky]

Atrocities said:
Deluxe will also come in a nice looking box.

Ooo, box cover art fo Space Empires. It would be worht buying the game jsut to get that!!!

[Caduceus]

I like new cames coming out with "DVD" boxes, like Battlefield (which I don't play) and Myst IV (which I do

Will it be a cardboard box? Does anyone know? It would be cool if SE:V were in a plastic case...