What are the must have mods for someone starting?

[Suicide Junkie]

If you're serious about challenge and don't want the AI to be cheating, try Carrier Battles mod

If you're stomping all over TDM AIs with 5x bonuses, I suggest playing team mode, NO bonus.
Non-team mode should be good to let you learn the ropes (rule one - make friends with the Vikings )

If you want the AI to steamroll your empire and then capture your homeworld with troops within the first 75-100 turns, try low bonus

[capnq]

leo1434 said: What mod/mods do you recommend to play a good challenging SE4 solo game? Besides is the last game version (1.95, I think) the best one to play with, or anyone of the older versions fare better?

A lot of people never upgraded past v1.91 (the last Shrapnel release). Whether you want to go beyond that depends mostly on how annoying you found the few minor bugs that were were fixed after that, and whether you want the features that were added.

There really isn't a big difference in play between any of the versions, IMO. When you're ready to try multiplayer, PBW supports both v1.91 and v1.94/v1.95 (those last two are equivalent as far as PBW is concerned.)

[Suicide Junkie]

All three are equivalent and interchangeable for multiplayer, actually.
If you are hosting a mod which includes seekers which target other seekers, you will need 1.94 to process the turns (avoids a bug in the saving of a combat replay), but 1.91 is just fine for playing.

[Ironmanbc]

I've bought the se4 cd in Staples and it came with ver 1.95 on it so i'm happy,

as for mods i play
Adamant
AICampaign
B5CarrierBattles
Babylon 5
CarrierBattles
DN4 (yes 4.27 ver)
GritEcon
Imperium Verus
Invasion
Proportions (hopefully 3.06+ someday)
StarFire Mod
StarTrek (of course)
TDM-ModPack

and when i get a chance i go a few rounds with SE5 (Balance Mod)

[Wade]

Version History for Space Empires IV
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Version 1.95:
1. Fixed - Mount selection on the Weapons Report was only showing the Normal Mount.
2. Fixed - The game will now create any directories that are missing.
3. Fixed - Occasionally, the TCP/IP would not connect using UDP.
4. Fixed - Over 300 System Types would crash the game.
5. Fixed - The Map Editor was not loading old Settings.txt files (with track numbers).
6. Added - Added a startup menu window.



Version 1.94:
1. Fixed - Game would error when loading old Settings.txt with track number fields.
The game will now allow either and translate tracks to music filenames.



Version 1.93:
1. Note - Strategy First release version.
2. Changed - Changed music to play MP3 files instead of using CD.
3. Added - Music volume selection in Game Options window.
4. Fixed - Starting a new game from within a game and then returning to the
main menu would leave the menu buttons disabled.



Version 1.92:
1. Fixed - Rare Access Violation when executing orders.
2. Fixed - Rare error when processing a turn.

[bearclaw]

Ironmanbc said:
DN4 (yes 4.27 ver)

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

[Ironmanbc]

it keeps me on my toe's when playing 20 players (yes 19 A.I.'s) and peace with them till they get in my way LOL