Hi all I just have the demo right now but... - Page 2

deccan · #11 October 7th, 2003, 12:27 AM

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Originally posted by Puke:
... then when they are done with the turn, their computer saves it as a ".PLR" file and you send it to the hosts, whom compiles it all and sends out a ".TRN" file for the next game turn.

Nitpicking but isn't it a .gam file that they send out?

Ed Kolis · #12 October 7th, 2003, 12:42 AM

Yeah, he's been playing too much Stars!

(silly .x and .y files that game used too...

still that was a great game, wish they'd finished the sequel

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Cyrien · #13 October 7th, 2003, 12:45 AM

Yah. I remember when SE4 was first coming out... I was hoping to grab it and the next Stars! all within the same year... ahh how my heart would have soared... now it looks like the Stars! franchise is dead.

DavidG · #14 October 7th, 2003, 01:15 AM

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Originally posted by deccan:

quote:
Originally posted by Puke:
... then when they are done with the turn, their computer saves it as a ".PLR" file and you send it to the hosts, whom compiles it all and sends out a ".TRN" file for the next game turn.

Nitpicking but isn't it a .gam file that they send out?

Well if we want to get all technichal it is a .GAM a .TRN and a .CMB file. The TRN file alows you to see what happened during the previous turn

Puke · #15 October 7th, 2003, 01:25 AM

wow, nailed by four people on that one! next we will have people from my PBW games chiming in that i would actually have known the correct extensions if i would just bother to send a turn in every once and a while!

seriously, thanks for the correction. and too bad about S!:SNG...

narf poit chez BOOM · #16 October 7th, 2003, 07:35 AM

Starhawk · #17 October 8th, 2003, 12:57 PM

Okay 'nother question....I know it's an annoying habit i've got but

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Okay the first place I saw Space Empires IV I saw a 3d shot of a ship near a sun, it looked like it was a scinimatic of some kind, so can any of you guys explain this? Are there 3d scinematics for some events?

geoschmo · #18 October 8th, 2003, 02:41 PM

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Originally posted by Starhawk:
Okay the first place I saw Space Empires IV I saw a 3d shot of a ship near a sun, it looked like it was a scinimatic of some kind, so can any of you guys explain this?

Possibly you saw a screenshot of the game setup screen. It's not cinematic but it does put random images on the screen.

Also, someone correct me if I am wrong, there are some cinematic screens for some of the events when playing single player right? Like when you blow up a star or a planet, doesn't it cut to another screen and show a little animated bmp of the planet blowing up? I don't play much single player so I can't be certain about that. Maybe that's what you saw then.

Puke · #19 October 8th, 2003, 06:51 PM

stelar manip componets include animations of their effects, when used in a sequential turn game. more like an animated .gif in quality. random events have no animation.

Loser · #20 October 9th, 2003, 01:18 AM

Nah, no graphics like that. It was probably the Stellar Manipulation menu screen.

The game isn't about graphics. Its strong points are elsewhere, but they're so strong they more than make up for the 1993 graphics.