OT: Emperor of the fading suns

Efran Randohar · #1 February 2nd, 2002, 09:33 PM

It seems like ages ago since I played EFS. I thought it was a great game, but its flaws kept me from playing against my desires...

Like most games in general, the AI is little more than a tutorial opponent. That being understood, I and a freind tried to find 3 other freinds willing and able to play EFS with us. We never succeeded. We did not know of any Internet support, with a pool of players looking to start games.

We made our own mod, starting with the Nova mod, which we called Super Nova. It's a shame we never got to play with it.

IIRC, spies and assasins can attack on Bizantium Secundus before a Regent declares themsleves Emperor.

I'm pretty sure, all you can do to gain black-listed techs is to study them, and be strong enough to defend against the Church's Inquisitors that will inevitably come after your labs.

Lemmy · #2 February 3rd, 2002, 12:04 AM

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I'm pretty sure, all you can do to gain black-listed techs is to study them, and be strong enough to defend against the Church's Inquisitors that will inevitably come after your labs.

what i meant was: Is there any way to make the "bad" techs, "good" techs? So that i can research them without the Inquisition coming after me.

Lemmy · #3 February 3rd, 2002, 10:55 PM

ok, i got the full Version now and playing with the Nova patch,
game progress: i'm losing....big time.

i started the game with universal w/house on and consume food.
i start out with a food shortage, so i have to build farms,one problem, i'm playing as house Li-halan, they start on something that looks like a desert planet.

So, can anyone give me some advice on what to build and research in the first couple of turns, cos i'm lost, i researched heavy infantry ( Appl. tech), but they don't show up in my build list at my factory.

And when should i start conquering other worlds?

Efran Randohar · #4 February 4th, 2002, 08:55 AM

I know of no way to remove techs from the Church's blacklist. Just the opposite, I vaguely recall techs can be added to the Church's blacklist over the course of a game. I think a house can even bribe the Church to added techs to their list.

It's been sooooo long since I Last looked at EFS, my memory is very foggy. Yet, still I remember it fondly.

Lemmy, would you, and any other 3 player be interested in getting an EFS game going? I wouldn't mind diggin it out and getting loaded and running on my computer.

Lemmy · #5 February 4th, 2002, 12:24 PM

i would be interested, but first i want to try and win a game against the AI

but i don't know if i can find any other players, most of my friends are more into RTS and FPS

and you can add techs the to black list by asking the church to proscribe them. I found no other way to get them of the list, so that leaves my only one option, destroy the church...mwuhahahaha....

Lemmy · #6 February 4th, 2002, 04:12 PM

ok, i figured out how to build the new units, infantry must be built by forts, tanks by factorires.

I started a new game, same settings but as Hazat this time, and started conquering immediately, everything went ok, i was first in the rankings, but then it crashed

i also found this http://www.noblearmada.com/
it's another game set in the Fading Suns universe, but it isn't sure if it will be released.

Cyrien · #7 February 4th, 2002, 07:03 PM

Ah... I remember this game as well. Once you get the hang of it it's pretty simple. Especially without a mod. Some of those mod packs are almost crazy though.

I remember it has some stability issues though. It always crashed on me pretty regularly anyways.