OT-Favorite SE4 Moment!!!

[zircher]

Browsing the data directory and discovering how wonderfully configurable SE4 is. [Yeah, I'm a game design geek, attend the GDC every year, etc...] :-)
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TAZ

[geoschmo]

The first time I opened my email box and had a turn processed by PBW waiting for me.

Geoschmo

P.S. My second best moment was a few minutes ago reading in this thread that my Space1999 scenario was someone's best SE4 moment.

[capnq]

Probably the first time I convinced an AI empire to surrender to me.

But a recent PBW battle runs a close second. My fleet wiped out my opponent's, despite all expectations I'd had from the results of simulator battles.

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Cap'n Q
My first mod! Hypermaze quadrant
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[ZeroAdunn]

Ok, this isn't actuall an SEIV moment, but an SEIII moment:

I was in the middle of a war, my ships getting pounded and my little three system empire getting hammered. I hadn't built any new ships in a long time and my carriers were about worthless, so I design a new ship class, way better tech than my current fleet. Set all my shipyards to build it. They get constructed, I set the entire fleet to move to my nearest warp point. Nothing happens. I look at the design and realise that I was short 1 engine. I was so mad!

(on a side note, did the same thing SEIV, this time forgot to give it any engines, only built three ships fortunately.

[Phoenix-D]

That is a ready-made case of "retrofit me. PLEASE!"

Phoenix-D

[henk brouwer]

My favorite, or in this case most embarrasing se4 moment:

I was playing a game against the AI, and was not meeting much, if any resistance. I was in first place and nothing could stop me from winning. Because I wanted something of a challenge I made the AI a offer it couldn't refuse: I offered to trade all my planets and ships in exchange for one of his planets, and was planning to rebuild my empire from there.

Strangely the AI refused the trade and made a counter proposal, all my planets and ships for an unknown planet. I was suprised but accepted.

Next turn I figured out what had happened, the planet the AI had given me was exterminated by a plague, with no population and thus, no construction possibilities I had lost the game

but it was a lot of fun...

[mac5732]

Well, I must confess, my most embarrasing moment was, after already playing a number of games, I was in a hurry to conquer the universe, sent out 3 colony ships to various systems, hit colonize, and NOTHING HAPPENED.
After much soul searching and *#@#@#*&, the great wanna be conquer determined that he forgot to put colonists on the ships.....oh the shammmmmmeeee of it allll. (Blushing profusly).

PS. I was not, contrary to what TS might say, eating burgers & fries at the time,,,,,

just some ideas mac

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