Have You Ever Wondered

[Atrocities]

Have you ever wondered what kinds of emails Aaron Hall might get from people who have questions, comments, or other regarding SE IV?

Here are some likely ones.

1. I cannot find the patch to upgrade SEIII to SEIV!
2. What does SEIV Stand for?
3. When I click on the icon to play the game, a DOS game loads, whats up with that?
4. Wheres the 3d combat simulator?
5. How do I mod the game?
6. What does the Load button do?
7. Why did you name it Space Empires IV?
8. I can't find your game in any stores! How do I buy it?
9. HEY THIS IS NOT MOO3!
10. Man this game is great. Can I copy it and give it to my friends?
11. The purpose of this email is to complain about your programing staff. They failed to take into account the actual phyisics of a worm hole.
12. You programed this game by your self?
13. Why can't I put facilities on my ships?
14. My Colonies have no populations, WTF is wrong with this game man?
15. I accidently blew up my own star in my game, how do I undo that?

[Slynky]

Another comment for the probability inclusion:

"Hey, dude, this game will never be a hit...their ain't enuff special FX"

[Sivran]

16. How many lists will Atrocities start about this game?

Sorry, had to do it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[sachmo]

17. Wondered, whatever became of me? I'm living on the air in Cincinatti...Cincinatti, WKRP.

[Siegebreaker]

18. Can I play Rome?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

19. If two mouses are mice, then why aren't two mooses meese?

[Atrocities]

You guys... I will bet most of the emails he gets are bug reports and what nots. My attempt at humor was misguided and I do apologise. No more lists from Atrocities.

[NarfsCompIsBack]

Hey, I like this attempt at humor. We just appear to have hijacked it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

The forum would be less interesting without the occasional AT list. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

20. Is the wing on the bird, or is the bird on the wing?

[Aris_Sung]

21. How are you supposed to get from one system to another without FTL drive?

[Renegade 13]

Atrocities said:
You guys... I will bet most of the emails he gets are bug reports and what nots. My attempt at humor was misguided and I do apologise. No more lists from Atrocities.


No! Keep up with the lists, I love them! And occaisionally even contribute... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

STL drive?

[Sivran]

sachmo said:
17. Wondered, whatever became of me? I'm living on the air in Cincinatti...Cincinatti, WKRP.



Grahhh now I got that song in my head..

[Atrocities]

Do any of you have a sudden craving to go bar and pick up a women with white hair done up seventies style? eewww, but oddly not.

[NullAshton]

22. Why won't my ship move? And what do these engines do?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

23. Why are Baseships so slow? Can't they mount over a hundred engines if they have a ship that size? It should be able to move faster than light!

[NullAshton]

24. Where's the teleporters?

[Arkcon]

25. i want to build a ringworldsphere but i cant the components dont fit on any ships please and i cant make the starbase move and why oh why doues it have to be on the star lol wouldnt it burn up help me 1111111

[narf poit chez BOOM]

26. Just how would the forum respond to one of those?

[Atrocities]

26. What no corvettes, heavy escorts, gun boats, cutters, or juggernouts?

[NullAshton]

27. Wheres the planet-destroying death stars? I WANT A DEATHSTAR!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Dahak could destroy the death star with standard missiles.

[Atrocities]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Dahak could destroy the death star with standard missiles.



EMAIL RESPONSE:

Riiiiiiiiiiigggggggghhhhhhhhtttttttttt, prove it.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Let's see:

Death star: Planatiod, ion bolt cannons, magnetic shielding, big huge cannon which takes about fifteen? minutes to cycle, Range about 20,000km, prototype.

Dahak: Planatiod, standard armament (antimatter missiles, gravitonic warheads(Black hole in-a-can)), multi-dimensional shielding, calculated range of 24.6 light-minutes, one of 998,712 of it's size class constructed, fully sentient.

[Raging Deadstar]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Dahak: Planatiod, standard armament (antimatter missiles, gravitonic warheads(Black hole in-a-can)), multi-dimensional shielding, calculated range of 24.6 light-minutes, one of 998,712 of it's size class constructed, fully sentient.



There are some thing's A fleet of Baseships can't achieve...
For Everything Else there is Overkill

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Dahak? Pah. Build a few dozen COMCAs and he's dead, baby.

[NullAshton]

If those have no combat sensors, then I'll just pop a few of my ships with -110 to hit.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Of course they have combat sensor's. Otherwise they couldn't hit anything at 24.6LM.

And what about all the other ones?

And when your enemies have fleets numbering in the millions, there's no such thing as overkill.

Now, go over to the Baen website and buy 'Empire From the Ashes' for a good read of Weber's early work. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Kamog]

28. What is that red blob icon for the game and why does it look exactly the same as SEII and SEIII? Is SEV going to have the same icon, too?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

It's a star, silly.

[Makinus]

Dahak rules! Why Weber don´t continue the series? I want more Dahak!