Hi everybody, I just wanted to apologize for my long absence from the Space Empires community and for delaying all the PBW games I've been in. I hope nobody's mad at me for that, but I'm having a bit of a personal crisis right now and I can't access the Internet but once a week. See, I was falsely accused of threatening to kill this girl at school (I actually asked her to kill me), and now I'm awaiting trial. It's only a misdemeanor but as a condition of my bond I have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, which means I'm only allowed out of the house on Fridays and other times when I have permission (like to see my therapist). It also means that my Internet service is disrupted, because otherwise I'd just be spending all my time playing SE4 with you guys and chatting about SE5!
One good thing has come of this, though - I have had the opportunity to begin serious work on my own 4X game; I call it Imperia Stellarum (Latin for "Empires of the Stars"), and it's got hexes just like SE5
You can't do much yet except build 3 ships from Star Trek, and if you build more than one, you get duplicates of some of them for some reason. The game's written in Java so it should work on Linux and Windows (and also Mac once Java 5 is released for Macs). So far there are 4 races, the Terrans, Uxmai (tentacle monsters which live in nebulas), Prell (floating brains which live inside stars), and Replons (big hulking robots which live on artificial space habitats). Once I get a chance, I'll show you guys - I'm just afraid I'll lose interest on working on it once I have something else to do... I'm already losing interest now
Oh, and BTW, if I remember to check this thread next Friday, could any of the beta testers get clearance to tell me if SE5 works under Wine any better than Starfury does???
I really don't want to go back to using Windows but I'm getting desperate at this point, not just about SE5 but other games, because I'm BORED...
I\'m not dead yet!
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