why is SEIV so good to you?

[mottlee]

To me this game works so well for the following

(1) Great support

(2) Great "family" (all of us)

(3) If you get tired of playing one ..change to a different mod=new game!

I started with SEIII Demo and was hooked from then on, have been playing for aroung 4 years and still find myself "Just one more turn" playing late into the night.

MM..Great Game If "Star Fury" is half the game you got a winner and We ALL looking foward to SEV

[FadingSuns]

For me, the reason that I'm hunched over the screen until dawn:

1) No 'Victory Path'
2) Strategy counts for lots, not panic driven clicking.
3) Unique abilities per race require different strategies to be adopted in-game.

[Ragnarok]

Here are my four reasons I stick with this game:

1) The community, this adds some much flavor to the game knowing that you can learn so many new things here at the forums even if you are a veteran of the game.
2) The reaplyability of SEIV, if you grow tired of straight SEIV then download a mod and use that.
3) There is no 'uber race' that can defeat anything that comes its way. There is always a counter stratagy that can defeat whatever you throw out there.
4) Three letters; PBW. Nothing beats being able to play against other humans when the AI proves to be too weak. If it wasn't for PBW, I wouldn't be playing SEIV hardly as much at all.

[ April 20, 2003, 22:57: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

[Chauron]

The game is awesome... no two games are the same. So many options...mmmmm options... lol anyway..

And the community, although I'm not as familiar with this community the one I am in is very close.

I started out on the SE2 demo.... I had a game in the SE2 demo that went on for well over a year... never finished it although I remember that I had the one other guy down to 2 systems one of which was his homeworld. He had thousands (literally) of battlestations at the warp points and I had just as many Cruisers on the other side... I think I had forced my way into his homeworld system but thats all I remember. Best game I ever played

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:
Here are my four reasons I stick with this game:

1) The community, this adds some much flavor to the game knowing that you can learn so many new things here at the forums even if you are a veteran of the game.
2) The reaplyability of SEIV, if you grow tired of straight SEIV then download a mod and use that.
3) There is no 'uber race' that can defeat anything that comes its way. There is always a counter stratagy that can defeat whatever you throw out there.
4) Three letters; PBW. Nothing beats being able to play against other humans when the AI proves to be too weak. If it wasn't for PBW, I wouldn't be playing SEIV hardly as much at all.

I don't think I could add much to what you said.

[General Woundwort]

The flexibility. Hands down. In other games (like RFTSII or STUN) you can play around with the percentages somewhat but you are pretty much stuck with the stock ships and races. With SEIV, the sky's the limit. New shipsets, new races (with culture, speech, research, ad inf.), new graphics and sounds (I immediately replaced those silly warp points with B5 jump gates )... and that's just playing with the base files. Get into true mods and you've got a game with darn near infinite replay value.

And the way everybody sings the praises of PBW, I may just have to get off my duff and get started over there pretty soon...