A first!!!

bearclaw · #1 December 5th, 2006, 04:10 PM

I can't belive it! This has to be the first time since I registered on Shrapnel in 2002 that I logged into the SEIV forum and there were NO new posts! In 24 hours, not a single new post.

I guess it was bound to happen eventually... I just wish I could buy a CD copy of SEV here... Getting tired of the demo

Atrocities · #2 December 5th, 2006, 06:10 PM

Yup, the game has official died now.

Arralen · #3 December 5th, 2006, 06:52 PM

.. what is a shame, because SE5 isn't really viable outside the incubator

Fyron · #4 December 5th, 2006, 06:59 PM

Well, to be fair, a lot of the new posts in recent months have been OT, and that has all stayed in the "main" forum.

If you want to see more discussions about SEIV, why not create some? I keep seeing people complaining about it dying, but they do little to stimulate discussion to help keep that from happening...

Atrocities · #5 December 5th, 2006, 08:14 PM

Does any one still play SE IV?

Artaud · #6 December 5th, 2006, 09:12 PM

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Atrocities said:
Does any one still play SE IV?

I have several games going: ST Mod, Dark Nova and Devnull.

Atrocities · #7 December 5th, 2006, 11:58 PM

I still play it almost daily. In fact I was playing it just now as I worked on the AST 2.0 mod. At least we are still playing.

Arralen · #8 December 6th, 2006, 12:44 PM

Actually, I would play SE4 much more if there was a mod that suits my tastes completly:

- Newtonian Movement, but not move-2 crawling for 150 turns.
- Leaky armor/shields, but not useless ones (standard-sized component, but not hit first; chance for hit on armor ~10%)
- small hulls more usuable
- harder to colonize 'alien' environments/planet types
- lesser pop growth
- etc.
- AI capable of 'understanding' the changes

Sadly, the mods get only some things 'right', but inevitably introduce some other ideas which spoil the whole fun for me.

And I don't have the time to do a complete mod myself. Therefore, I play a little bit with standard or modded game, until frustration strikes again for some reason.

Thinking 'bout it, this is true for all my gaming: so many promising games, but there's always something that spoils the fun in the end ...

Fyron · #9 December 6th, 2006, 03:15 PM

Adamant Mod seems to fulfill all of those roles. You could make it introduce far fewer other concepts by deleting the races using non-physical paradigm, and only taking it for yourself.

Btw, you can easily decrease pop growth in any mod by going into Settings.txt and increasing this:

Reproduction Check Frequency := 2

Reproduction occurs every X turns, based on that setting. Stock uses 1, Adamant uses 2, Proportions uses 10 (for some examples).

Doing so might create MP savegame incompatibilities, but that's not a concern if you are just interested in single player.

Captain Kwok · #10 December 6th, 2006, 05:23 PM

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Sadly, the mods get only some things 'right', but inevitably introduce some other ideas which spoil the whole fun for me.

I wonder if this was in reference to magic?