Man, it's just not there.

[PvK]

I liked SE3 retreats pretty well, too.

I liked SE3 overall a whole lot, too. There are still some fun things about it that never reappeared in SE4 or SE5.

I'm still waiting for SE5 to evolve into something I want to (mod and then) play. I still have patience and some hope, though, remembering that I wasn't really satisfied with SE4 until it got to the Gold edition.

[marhawkman]

Yeah I did like that method of Retreat too. It actually made sense.

[Atrocities]

Fight for the Stars

You get one planet, a huge infrastructure establishment and as your tech grows you get better technology. No colonizing other planets. You have to conquer them. With your infrastructure working at peek performance you can have a huge fleet of 1,000's of ships.

[Kana]

Atrocities said:
Fight for the Stars

You get one planet, a huge infrastructure establishment and as your tech grows you get better technology. No colonizing other planets. You have to conquer them. With your infrastructure working at peek performance you can have a huge fleet of 1,000's of ships.

Huh?

There was a risk style SEIV PBW game that was alot of fun, you would basically get a limited choice of ship types (3). You could build one per system, one planet per system, and then the combat would basically kill 1 ship per hit. It was a quick but wild game, especially if you throw in alittle bit of diplomacy.

Of course the Junkyard SEIV PBW game was also fun. You could only get tech by finding it on planets, so you would have a mish-mash of tech to build your ships with, and fight against the other players. You could have a butch frigate go up against a pretty paper-thin wuss of a baseship depending on what tech you were lucky to find.