Space Empires I

[Sefter Aruna]

I have wanted to play SEI ever scence I played SEII, does anyone out there know were I can get it? Is it copywrited? Do I need to buy it some were?

Please Help!

[Hugh Manatee]

Buy the SEIII combo set on CD rom, it comes with SE1, 2, and 3, and lots of mods and shipsets for #3.

SE#1 isn't that great, it's like hotseat multiplayer SE2 with no ship customization, and no AI to play against(IIRC)SE2>>>>>>>>>SE1

[Caduceus]

If you start playing SE3, you'll never go "back" to SE I or II.

Of course, SE IV is far superior to all of them http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif With the exception of research and intellingence.

[Suicide Junkie]

And ship repair, and combat targetting.
And those hull layers were nice.
Don't forget the right click menu http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Fyron]

And the superior build queue system. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Suicide Junkie]

The local build queues were less advanced... you could only build one unit at a time.

If you mean the global ship/base queue, that's certainly different with advantages and disadvantages. It was quite easy to prioritize your project funding across your entire empire.

[mottlee]

I remember being able to start to build a ship at a space station then able to move it to a ship yard (or the other way) with out having to start over

[Azselendor]

Good times, good times. I remeber SE3 fondly for that.

[Renegade 13]

I still pull SE3 out of the dusty reaches of my hard drive to play once in a while. Still a good game! AI can give you a run for your money too.

[Hugh Manatee]

I still play SE2 on a regular basis.....

[Sefter Aruna]

hey! I'm not saying that SEIV is'nt great, I would just like to play the game that started it all... anyway I hope that this does not make all of you think that I only play SEII. I just fondly remember the times I would meet up with my friends and battle for hours on end... ah those were the days:)

[Raging Deadstar]

I fondly remember getting my backside handed to me many a time when playing SEII's AI.

[Sefter Aruna]

wow I never did, I allways thought that the AI in SEII was weak. SEIII that is a vary diffrent matter...

[Phoenix-D]

I'd pull out SE3 and play it more often if I hadn't lost my registration code http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

[Atrocities]

I have never played SEIII. That is other than the demo.

[Kamog]

Yeah, the construction queues were much better in SEIII, and the built-in help was really good, too. But a few months ago I went back to play SEIII for fun but I quickly got bored because SEIV is better in many other ways. So I ended up playing SEIV. I have seen the SEII Demo. It has that nice battle scene intro when you start it up, but I haven't played it. Never seen SEI.

[Hugh Manatee]

Raging Deadstar said:
I fondly remember getting my backside handed to me many a time when playing SEII's AI.



The trick is you gotta "choke" the enemies targeting with fodder. They always try to hit the seekers before your ships. I at the early tech level I use the Meson BLaster because of it's range, and load my ships with capital ship missiles or plasma torpedoes, and have other ships with nothing but my longest range weapons, and fire a wave of seekers, hide behind them, and have them snipe off bases. In the early tech the ripper beams are the best point defense.

[Raging Deadstar]

Yeah. I found SEII a real difficult game. But I loved it, Then I discovered SEIV Gold. I actually find SEII More difficult than SEIV http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

I never got a chance to play SEIII. Shame as all I hear about it is good things

[boran_blok]

goddamnit, you guys got me hooked on SEIII again http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif