Hey, this game is pretty fun!

geoschmo · #1 July 22nd, 2002, 02:26 PM

So, I did something this weekend I haven't done in close to a year and a half if I recall correctly. I actually played a game of SEIV single player!

It is amazing how addictive it is. I had intended to only play a few turns, but ended up burning about 5 hours between Saturday and Sunday. Where did the time go?

No, the AI isn't very challanging compared to human players, but it was still fun. They weren't complete pushovers. In fact, while I am in first place after about 150 turns, player 2 isn't that far behind me. He's got about 90% of my score, so I may have a fight on my hands when I go up against him. It probably would have been worse for me had I altered the quadrant file a bit. I got a lucky starting position sitting between a black hole and another dead system.

Geoschmo

[ July 22, 2002, 13:27: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

mac5732 · #2 July 22nd, 2002, 07:11 PM

see what a new head can do

Gryphin · #3 July 22nd, 2002, 07:21 PM

Only 5 hours in 2 days? Off weekend for you?

geoschmo · #4 July 22nd, 2002, 07:36 PM

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Originally posted by The High Gryphin:
Only 5 hours in 2 days? Off weekend for you?

Well, addictions or not, I still gotta family.

bearclaw · #5 July 24th, 2002, 12:20 AM

I once played a single player game that was massively difficult for me. I got unlucky (or was it lucky?) and started in a system that only had 3 wps. One went to a deadend system with only 2 planets I could colonize and the other 2 both went to blackholes! Damaging wps and all. After YEARS of preperation I finally got through both black holes with an undamaged ship only to find 2 more black holes! By the time I even made it out of there and encountered anyone else, I was using destroyers and they all had battleships and up! Now that was a hard game.

Baron Munchausen · #6 July 24th, 2002, 04:02 AM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by The High Gryphin:
Only 5 hours in 2 days? Off weekend for you?

Well, addictions or not, I still gotta family.

Heh... more than a few academic programs, careers, and even marriages have been ended by games like SimCity and Civilization...

Atrocities · #7 July 24th, 2002, 04:24 AM

If only we could get a PBW game to move as fast as a single player game. Ah the dream of foolish.

Ragnarok · #8 July 24th, 2002, 05:05 AM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
If only we could get a PBW game to move as fast as a single player game. Ah the dream of foolish.

Yes, wouldn't that be nice. That's only going to happen when everyone on the face of the earth turns into computer geeks and do nothing but wait for the next turn... Right away unzip it, play it, send it in, 10 minutes later you have another turn. Which I don't see happening anytime soon. <Insert sarcasim>Maybe at least another 10 or so years. <End sarcasim>

dumbluck · #9 July 24th, 2002, 12:17 PM

Turn Blitz on PBW. Of coarse, it's more the AI's empire than your own....

geoschmo · #10 July 24th, 2002, 12:44 PM

Actually you could get pretty close using Tcp/ip, or the PBW Rel Time Client. Not quite as fast of course, cause you still have different people taking different amounts of time to do their turns.

I had a PBW game once get through almost 20 turns in one day, but there were only three of us playing.

Geoschmo