New player struggling

Alpha Kodiak · #1 March 20th, 2002, 02:01 AM

PsychoTechFreak:

Please don't tell me we have to show the Brits who's boss, AGAIN!

pathfinder · #2 March 20th, 2002, 02:03 AM

Andy: Don't feel alone. I been playing SEIV since September 2000 and have won only one game out of hundreds.....and they say the AI ain't so great! HA! and now it is even harder with the improved AI in gold....oh well...back to my daily whuppin'

PsychoTechFreak · #3 March 20th, 2002, 02:41 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
PsychoTechFreak:

Please don't tell me we have to show the Brits who's boss, AGAIN!

Strength is irrelevant. Resistance is futile. Negotiation is irrelevant. You will be assimilated.
Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant. You must comply. A neural transceiver is required for maximum communication,
we will work as one mind. We are the Brits. Resistance as you know it is over. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. You will become one with the Brits.
Why do you resist? We only wish to raise quality of life for all species. Brit Locutus.

MikeRMcCartney · #4 March 20th, 2002, 02:50 AM

BTW Psycho, on point #9, as an Audi A4 owner, I agree.

pathfinder · #5 March 20th, 2002, 03:33 AM

Psycho: Sevens? BAH! full sides and scrum down!

Instar · #6 March 20th, 2002, 04:44 AM

American football is awesome dude. Rugby is for insane people. I remember this pic where the guy was reaching for the ball, grabbed this guys head, thinking it was the ball, and poked this guy in the eye, drawing a fair sized squirt of blood. Both players continued playing. Goodness, at least we keep them alive in american football.
Edit: I must duly note that rugby is a really fun game though. But its nuts

[ 20 March 2002: Message edited by: Instar ]

Andy Watkins · #7 March 21st, 2002, 02:55 AM

Tigga and all,

Thankyou for your support, you have inspired me to have another go.

Space empires IV is very difficult to get in the UK so I guess most of you are from the good old US of A. I will of course try and remember to spell things incorrectly :-)

I thought the manual with Gold was supposed to be great, (it isn't) so didn't look on the disk, have now read the real manual and much more makes sense, though I still have a feeling there are lots of gaps in my knowledge.

I am VERY early in the game so don't appear to have any fighters or any ground troops at all.

I can build up to Destroyer sized ships, or small satellites or space stations or weapons platforms that's about it.

I recently noticed an ally of mine has been planting satellites on all his warp points. Ah that's a good idea I thought I'll copy them. Built some satellites, loaded them onto a transport, went to warp point and could not dump the cargo. Looks like I need to be able to "Launch" the satellites, how do I do that?

I wanted to mine asteroids, only ship that seemed to be able to do so was an attack destroyer with no guns and a pair of mining add on's. Took ship to asteroids and it started mining straight away.
Yippee I got something right.....
Then it ran out of fuel and I had to send it back to a planet to reful in the next system and then all the way back again. BORING! How can I stop this??

If I want to move a ship a couple of systems I appear to have to go WARP to the nearest point. Then go to the next system and put WARP to the next point etc etc. Can I get a ship across several systems with just one command?

What do waypoints do and how do you use them?

Not very clear about combat. if you have ion cannons they seem to fire straight at whatever you target. I had a mk I capital missile and think I fired it, very difficult to tell, I think it was reponsible for a purple splat on my ship, I never seemed to get a purple splat on my target so don't know if it ever hit, or was the purple splat their missiles hitting me??

I have a big list of other questions but only a small brain to store them in so I have forgotten them all!

Any assistance you can provide on any of the above would be hugely appreciated,

Andy
PS are there any "Difficulty" setting in the game?

PPS My favourite sci fi series of all time is Babylon 5, do I get the impression I can "Mod" the game in some way to reflect B5?? I don't understand anything at all about modding.

[quote]Originally posted by Growltigga the Great:
[QB]Andy, welcome to the forum and I am glad that yet another Brit has joined the forum to add a bit of class to all these north americans