Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"? - Page 32

Fyron · #**311** February 10th, 2003, 03:47 AM

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Edit2: This was Win2k machine. I tried loading the savegame on WinXP and it works fine

That just means that you have something set up wrong on the 2k machine, as SE4 runs perfectly fine on 2k. If you don't have Service Pack 3 for 2k, you should get it. Try making a fresh install of SE4.

geoschmo · #**312** February 10th, 2003, 05:36 PM

Congrats to Primitive. You get Cheeze now.

Gozguy, I don't have anyone for you at the moment. As soon as I do though.

My game against Nodachi is zipping along. We got a lot of turns in over the weekend.

Preacherman? You still awake up there?

Geoschmo

Gozra · #**313** February 10th, 2003, 05:50 PM

The anticapation is mind numbing. BTW I have 2 losses Asalma was the first.
Both of my opponets have stated I started with a bad position in comparsion with them could this be true or are they being kind to me? Should we playing on a set of standard maps to equlze starting position?

geoschmo · #**314** February 10th, 2003, 05:57 PM

I don't really want to use a standard map. I like the randomness of things. It should even out over all your games.

I suppose I could make up a new quadrant type or use something like Fyrons paradise quadrant that has less of a chance of bad systems.

Geoschmo

Stone Mill · #**315** February 10th, 2003, 05:57 PM

Finally... an opponent for Cheeze.

I was beginning to think everyone was in fear of the hideous yellow calcium enriched wrath!

geoschmo · #**316** February 10th, 2003, 06:04 PM

Goz, fixed the standings.

Also, I don't mind at all if people want a premade map for their game. That's certainly an option if you can agree on it. I simply don't think it's something that should be mandated. I would just hate to play every game on the same map myself. A random map made by a third party that has been reviewed and given roughly equal starting positions is as acceptable option.

Geoschmo

Stone Mill · #**317** February 10th, 2003, 06:21 PM

Update on my match vs Thermodyne:

As far as the "starting positions" concern, I was sweating bullets... My position was in a weird pipeline of at least 10 connected systems. With every warp, I held my breath that I would encounter Thermo, and the game would be over because I would be chocked off from the rest of the map. When I finally reached the gateway system, we met, (but it was an unarmed long-range scout). It was pretty obvious that his starting point was a good distance away. I established some position and have some breathing room to operate.

In the initial sparring, it has only been small scale. I have a feeling that fleets will be bashing heads soon enough.

I'm trying some new things this game. One thing is not investing in DUCs right away and investing the points into another weapon type- (no... not PPBs, although I usually do that

)Thank goodness Thermo is a long way off or his ships would have clobbered mine.

And yes, of course, I have stacked my combat stats and am now playing berserker for the first time.

Preacherman · #**318** February 11th, 2003, 12:46 AM

not going DUC is a pretty hard gamble (meson comes to mind as the only other fast option) finding your enemy next to you and not having DUC's is bad!

Rambie · #**319** February 11th, 2003, 07:01 AM

In the game I'm in with Gandalf we're quite close... but that's all part of the fun.

Stone Mill · #**320** February 11th, 2003, 05:13 PM

Originally posted by Preacherman:

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not going DUC is a pretty hard gamble (meson comes to mind as the only other fast option) finding your enemy next to you and not having DUC's is bad!

Yup. This would be very bad. But I also like to agree to play with 3 starting planets... (a bit higher starting research). This way if the poop hit the fan I could divert my research into DUCs to catch up quickly.

Agreed- it is a gamble.