Space Empires IV Gold Game

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-06 11:27am

PBW Advanced Research is selected by default. So they'll have to be at least one change.

It really would unbalance things. For sure if I was Romulans I would ditch the intel and pump all my points into aggressiveness and defensiveness and research to get those shield skippers out fast. If I was Ferengi I'd ditch the +20 percent trade bonus and make it -50% just because now I'm going with a far more aggressive playing style.

Brian

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-03-06 04:56pm

Dangit, I already tweaked the Breen (dropped some traits I didn't like, bought generic improvements).

EDIT: Brian, you just got post *1000* in this thread.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-03-07 12:54pm

My complete lack of computer skills strikes again. How do I install the patch?

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-07 01:06pm

Post 1000? Cool

. Haven't been keeping track, is it really that many and how did you find out you been counting lol.

<edit>Oh, you meant the thread in total, not just me personally. Phew, thought I had 1k posts about SE:IV, now that would be scary.</edit>

Okay, if you want to preserve the old ST Mod. Copy and paste the ST Mod folder somewhere, then rename it to like "Neph ST Mod" and copy it back into the seiv folder. Then extract the patch into the seiv/neph ST Mod/ folder and everything should be ok.

Brian

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-03-07 01:40pm

How do I extract the patch, though? What program should I use to open it? Crud, I'm bad at this.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-07 01:42pm

download.com should have winrar somewhere.

Brian

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-03-07 02:24pm

I finally managed to get everything to work and I uploaded my empire file.Thanks for the help.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-14 10:00pm

So what's the status on this game. I'm the only one left to upload my empire file, but there's only seven players.

Maybe we should just play a normal game with no RP and save the Empire for later when there's more interest, a seven turn game could churn really fast and if it's a small galaxy it would be finished in a month or two.

Brian

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-14 10:13pm

brianeyci wrote:So what's the status on this game. I'm the only one left to upload my empire file, but there's only seven players.

Maybe we should just play a normal game with no RP and save the Empire for later when there's more interest, a seven turn game could churn really fast and if it's a small galaxy it would be finished in a month or two.

Brian

That may be an idea. If we go that route, I'll take Species...

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-14 10:47pm

Let's get this show on the road then!

What kind of settings... I like ten planets. Small galaxy. Good Planets, High Resources, high technology cost. Medium starting technology. Does everybody have PBW Research Trait turned off? I'll turn mine off and reupload.

Hell I've suggested ten planets every game and it's been refuse, give me my decaempire!

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Brian

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-15 03:45pm

Everyone make sure you have the PBW trait turned off, please. I don't want to have to restart on turn 2 when I notice someone has 200k research points, while everyone else has 40.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-15 03:47pm

You'll probably end up starting over anyway because somebody will have forgotten something somewhere. Or have bad homeworlds. Or whatever. Oh and the ship and unit limit, we don't want a 100 ship limit

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I'll upload now and we can start! Whee!

Brian

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-15 03:51pm

brianeyci wrote:You'll probably end up starting over anyway because somebody will have forgotten something somewhere. Or have bad homeworlds. Or whatever. Oh and the ship and unit limit, we don't want a 100 ship limit .

I'll upload now and we can start! Whee!

Brian

Just uploaded. I've gotta run, so I'll upload the thing in asec.

GAME STARTED! SO IT BEGINS!

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-15 04:11pm

Woah. Uh oh. Maybe I should restart. The cost for battlecruiser hull research is 875000...

Maybe 'low' research cost is in order. That was on Medium.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-15 04:13pm

Maybe we should do high. Lol

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Low's good.

You'll be late

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Maybe we could start with medium tech and set research to high...

Brian

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2006-03-15 04:39pm

The game started before I saw the message about turning off Advanced Research and re-uploading, so mine is probably still on. However, I thought the idea was to do medium tech cost but keep Advanced Research on. That way, it doesn't take a month of Sundays to advance the tech, but it's also not ridiculously cheap to get the biggest ships and most powerful weapons almost immediately, a consequence of low tech cost that has plagued every game we've run. Starting at medium tech would also be good.

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-15 04:52pm

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:The game started before I saw the message about turning off Advanced Research and re-uploading, so mine is probably still on. However, I thought the idea was to do medium tech cost but keep Advanced Research on. That way, it doesn't take a month of Sundays to advance the tech, but it's also not ridiculously cheap to get the biggest ships and most powerful weapons almost immediately, a consequence of low tech cost that has plagued every game we've run. Starting at medium tech would also be good.

That sounds a lot better. So I'm gonna restart the game. Please get PBEM Research on...

all players, sign up here. http://seiv.pbw.cc/text/index.jsp?menu= ... me=1tf1clh

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-15 05:04pm

Aww, you didn't have to do that Nephtys, you could have just uploaded a replacement turn over the old one like you do for manual execution... oh well now that it's deleted it'll take two or three days for everybody to reupload their empires.

<edit>Actually it's better that you deleted it so everybody gets the message and turns the PBW trait on

nevermind.</edit>

<edit 2>Your link's password dependent

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Brian

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-15 08:42pm

Then stop standing around Mister Vulcan, and post a non-PW dependant one.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-15 08:47pm

That's dependEnt. And here you go peeps,

Brian

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-16 05:15am

Alright. We got 6 players up. Just need one or two more. This is a normal ST SEIV game, with the mod patch. No monster race or anything, just us havign a fight like the first game.

Kojiro, Booyah, Nova, Guppy, Uraniun want in? We've got seats available!

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-03-16 06:39am

Booyah sez "Looks interesting."

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-03-16 01:07pm

I'll get things together and join up after class later this afternoon.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-03-16 06:39pm

And I will be the Son'a Command.

Nova Andromeda · Post by **Nova Andromeda** » 2006-03-16 06:44pm

--I'm sorry, I not sure I really have time for more than one game.