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Old December 30th, 2001, 12:29 AM

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Default Re: With SEIVG coming out soon, Does any one still play SEIV?

I've been playing SEIV for a couple of months (addictive game!). Ran across it looking for a good play by email game I could do with my brother and friends (my brother does shift work so real time is not an option). I got him one of the Last copies of SEIV for xmas and we have started playing. What I would like to know is that if we want to start up a game with some friends before SEIV Gold is out, are we out of luck (as you can't order new copies of SEIV)? Also, will there be a utility to upgrade an inprogress game from SEIV to SEIV-Gold?
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Old December 30th, 2001, 12:38 AM

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"The Gold release date is too far away for me to wait for. I'm probably going to install Gold on a different computer, and keep playing both."

Why the different computer? Current SE4 plays nicely with more than one install (I have two at the moment), I can't imagine Gold working any differently.

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Old December 30th, 2001, 01:10 AM

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Playing two very long drawn out pbem games.

I stopped playing solo way back in 1.19
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Old December 30th, 2001, 12:58 PM
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Default Re: With SEIVG coming out soon, Does any one still play SEIV?

SE4 savegames are upgradeable to SE4G. It might be necessary to process a turn as the host but it is definitely possible, I have done it myself during BETA.

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What I would like to know is that if we want to start up a game with some friends before SEIV Gold is out, are we out of luck (as you can't order new copies of SEIV)? Also, will there be a utility to upgrade an inprogress game from SEIV to SEIV-Gold?
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Old December 30th, 2001, 09:32 PM
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Why the different computer? Current SE4 plays nicely with more than one install (I have two at the moment)
Because the computer I have SE IV installed on currently has only 40M left free on the HD, and there's nothing left that I'm ready to delete yet to make room. That might change by the time Gold is released, though.
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I have only had the game a month. I'm still learning so it is all new. I love the constant surprises like the subverters that captured one of my ships. At the moment I find it to be one huge multilayered puzzle. I have yet to finish more than half of the technology tree. Hmm, I hope Growltigga does not see this.


Mate, I saw it but believe me, you are about 50,000 leagues ahead of where I am - I have just worked out that point defence cannon are good against fighters and am looking forward to getting so far as to have battlecruiser designs

subverters? what the bleeding hell are those - the worst I have come across (other than fighters) are shard cannon and temporal thingummywhatsits
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Allegiance Subverters are a high-level racial weapon for Psychic races. They can make the target ship change sides.
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