What is your favorite SE4 feature?

Skulky · #1 January 17th, 2002, 04:10 AM

What i think is the best is the human players and hte whole PBW infrastructure. Everything else plays into the plan perfectly. It is just flawless (almost).

What i would like to see is a scenario editor, or a 'cheat' menu a la civ 2 so people can make more interesting/faster created scenarios, the first one (to my knowledge) Homecoming by SJ was done by reverse engineering the tutuorial. I should think that with MM giving such a big commitment to moddign scenario editing would be the logical next step.

Suicide Junkie · #2 January 17th, 2002, 07:17 AM

quote:
Homecoming by SJ was done by reverse engineering the tutuorial.

The only thing I really got from REing the tutorial was to make the scenario look more official. And its not exactly a secret, either, since the source is plaintext.

I made my scenario by playing a game under some wierd self-imposed rules, and went from
"Well, I'm nearly invincible now"

to
"Crikey!* I just lost my entire empire"

to
"Hey, this would be cool for a scenario!"

/save /copy /rename /copy tutorial bits /paste /typetypetype /save /zip /post

* = Paraphrased

chewy027 · #3 January 18th, 2002, 09:58 PM

Oh come on now, I know that there are plenty of you out there that have ideas on how to make this game better and there is lots of stuff you would add to it to make it your perfect game. So hurry up and post what that is

mottlee · #4 January 19th, 2002, 04:31 AM

How about a random tech tree, so you do not always get the same one? even if you use a different race that way you will not know what tech gets you the strongest weapons!

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HEMAN · #5 January 19th, 2002, 07:53 AM

What would you add to SE4 to make it your perfect game?, How about. #1 Derilict ship or fighter morroned in space or planet.#2 Ancient facility ruins.#3 300 solar sytems. My eyes are glitering,my toung turned purple?,shiver my timbers?, my knees are weak!.

mac5732 · #6 January 19th, 2002, 08:12 AM

1st, I like SE4 because by getting the game I have met all you wonderful people out there, if it wasn't for the game, I never would have found this forum nor enjoyed myself as much as I have both in playing the game and in discussions on the forum.

What I like about the game, is the flexibility it has for both mod and non modders. The game has the capability of different challenges by what can be tweaked, added,and subtracted to the game. My opinion only, I feel that this is where the game shines and goes beyond the other games out there. I don't know of any other game that has the large modding capability as this one does and in addition lets us non modders tweak the races in the original game as well. In addition, The great support that Richard, Aaron, MM, and Sharpnel have given us. What other company would have given us the number of patches they have, let alone the gold issue with a lot of those ideas from the modders.

I'm starting to ramble on during these Posts, I gotta stop taking those meds because of my&^&$%$%^$#@%$ kitchen, I've never talked so much

What I would add is a fleet merge button or something similiar, add more diverse races and new additional tech trees and racial traits

PS, Hi Chewy, havn't seen you on the board much lately, glad to see ya back

just some ideas mac

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AJC · #7 January 19th, 2002, 08:37 AM

I like SE4 because of the ability to change the game and its a interesting strategy game against human opponents.

combat: Since the limitation of "only one ship can occupy a square in combat" was done by demand in the early development of the game- I would like to see an option added to the set up that allows multiple ships to stack in the same square in combat.

I would like to see a defense added for every type of weapon damage in the abilities file.

I would like to see ground combat maybe similar in format to Star general.