Best/Worse expericence

[bearclaw]

Best Expeiance.

I had found that the computer became too easy for me after sevearl single player games of SE3 and then SE4. Until one day....

I had started a new single player game with maximum computer players all set for maximum difficulty. I started to explore from my homesystem only to find that of the 3 wps out of my system, 2 of them were blackholes with unstable warp points. Lost 2 ships just discovering that. The third went to a dead end system with only 2 planets I could colonize. After fully colonizing what I could, I began trying to break out of my gravity prison. it took 2 repair ships, 2 colony ships one transport, and one suppply ship for each unstable warp point before i could continue to explore. When I got through the first (losing a lot of population, both colony componants and only one repair bay), I discovered that on the other side of the only other warp point was ANOTHER BLACKHOLE!!!

Eventually, I made it out of the double blackhole route. The other black hole lead to a nebulae before entering a normal system. That's when the fun really began.

I think the game was nearly 10 year into it by this point, and the best I had were destroyers, virtually no weapon techs and very little of anything else. The very first empire I encountered were not only hostile, but were using battle cruisers! I later found out that they were the underdogs of the galaxy. I was so far behind ALL the computer players that it became the first challenge I'd had in a long, long time.

I eventually won the game but only because the Pratorians were merciful and became my allies.

Nick (bearclaw)