SEIV Fans Please Read

Atrocities · #1 March 1st, 2003, 01:48 AM

It has come to my attention that far to many of you are deriving far too much pleasure from this game. It is ok to love thy game, but just don�t luuuuuuv thy game. Therefore I hereby command you to stop playing SEIV and go out and buy MOO 3.

Seriously, what makes SEIV so damned enjoyable?

For me it many differant aspects. The Modding ability being the foremost, support, these forums, the community, etc.

I love the game, it gives me the feeling that I am exploring the stars, commanding a vast stellor empire, and am leader of trillions. I enjoy the battles and strategy, (limited as it is) of the AI, and cannot seem to get enough of the this. It is by far the one game that has defined the term "Just One More Turn."

If Aaron did nothing but add wheel mouse support to SEV, I would buy it without question. I know that SEIV has been so brilliantly supported that SEV, if released, will be more of the same.

I have to agree, if Infogames wants to salvage the Master Of Orion name, they had better contract with Malfador now.

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Longfellow, Kavanagh

minipol · #2 March 1st, 2003, 02:03 AM

SEIV is the only game that keeps me from getting to bed early. I hate it because of that! :-)
Damn game. Every time i play a game, there is something unique about it.
I also learn a lot of neat tricks on this forum and this is probably one of the more appealing factors of SEIV: the endless variantions in ship and unit design. It keeps the game interesting.
Anyway, enough posting, i need to get back to my game

Wardad · #3 March 1st, 2003, 02:06 AM

The Game is addictive???
All this time I thought the forum was addictive.

Slick · #4 March 1st, 2003, 02:30 AM

I think one of the aspects is that there is the perfect "rate" of new & different things added during a game. You can expect a new weapon, facility, ship, technology, or some such thing every couple of turns that you have just GOT to start using. You are also continuously expanding, building, conducting diplomatic relations, conducting military operations, etc. Like I said, it is the rate that makes the game great. If you quickly got all the techs, met all the empires, built a huge fleet and conquered the empire, it wouldn't be fun and the game would be easily mastered. If it took too long to do these things, your interest wouldn't hold long enough to have fun. The "excitement rate" is perfectly tweaked to keep people wanting "just one more turn".

Slick.

Gandalph · #5 March 1st, 2003, 04:05 AM

SEIV is the only game I have owned that stayed on my hard drive from day 1. It is also the only game, in my long gaming history, to have 4 Versions, with at least 3 mods each, installed at the same time. It is also the only game, perhaps regrettably, that has me addicted to Online gaming. It is also the only game that has induced me to pull even more money out of my pocket after game purchase (to support PBW). It has the only game forum that I visit regularly, or should I say daily. My hat is off to the game, the community, the PBW admins, Aaron and Malfador for bringing it to life, Shrapnel for publishing it and hosting this forum, and all the great players I meet on PBW.

Fyron · #6 March 1st, 2003, 04:39 AM

I've had Civ2 installed much longer than SE4 has been around. I think I have 2 Versions currently, Gold and Test of Time. I lost count of the huge number of mods I have for it long ago.

Of course, it also had a much larger following than SE4, so it makes sense that there are more mods for it.