HELLO Galaxy ! :)

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Hi,
I've just ordered my SG4G copy, and will play the demo while waiting for the plane to land (I'm in Europe... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif ).

I've been a long-time fan of 4X games, RTFS, MOO1 and 2 (preferred the 1 though), SW:Rebellion alos, but didn't find much good 4X games those Last years, all is 3D RT junk http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif
I was repelled by SE3 complexity and very very bland appearance, seems Ok now ...
Now I expect SE4 to give me many long gaming nights ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

In the meantime I'll try to get accustomed to all things SE4, and noticed a motherlode of addons, tools, mods, and so existed ...

What can you old space grogs advise me ?
Are the ST and SW mods good ? Can one start with them or stick to the "standard" game ? What good graphics mods do exist (if they exist) ?
Best scenarios ?

And perhaps more important, good tutorial/articles to help me conquer the galaxy ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Thanks, salute, and regards !

[adder_inf]

Having just learned about 70% of the game I would suggest that you run the tutorial. Then start a game try out stuff get but kicked, repeat. I found doing a game or two with only neutrals slightly boring but extremly useful in flattening the learning curve.

This was all with standard pack.

by the way why PDF? Really like Acrobat?

[baetis]

Someone compiled a list of all the useful Posts from this board. Try here:

http://home.earthlink.net/~petemmer/

For ST races, look at Atrocities sig. He's got links to all his races (i'm having a great time with them now). For SW races:

http://se4kdy.cyberwars.com/

But the SW aren't gold compatible, but its real easy to get them working. Search for capnq, in his sig theres a link for updating non-Gold AI's to gold.

I learned by doing a quick start. Then turning on complete ai, then just clicking on next turn and seeing what the AI does. You get a feel for what you should be doing, but its really just the beginning. That ~petemmer is a really great resource, i would read the whole thing.

Thanks to all the people who made the sites/races that i mentioned above.

[capnq]

Rather than making him search, I'll just reply here. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I'm glad to see people getting use out of my instructions.

[Atrocities]

Ditto http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Welcome to the game

Don't forget to visist PBW and get into some competition. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif PBW (http://seiv.pbw.cc/)

[baetis]

I had a feeling that would happen http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Master Belisarius]

"I was repelled by SE3 complexity"

Oh Oh... SE4G Is a lot more complex than SE3...

[TerranC]

Darn right, but the interface design makes it look SO MUCH more player friendly than it really is http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Tell the people! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

On and BTW, Welcome.

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Thanks to all for the replies and the welcomes, this seems to be a very friendly community, amongst the best I know (along with Combat Mission and SFC, my Favorites ! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif )

I just started the demo tutorial, game sounds great and deep as space !
I also browsed the Web and found an amazing wealth of sites and mods, especially the PBW site ... However spaceempires.org seems empty .. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif the webmaster claims all has been lost on April 1st, I thought it was an April's fool but it seems real http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif !!

As for my first post I realized I confused SE3 with Stars! when I spoke of an overly complex and awkward game, apologies ... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
And for the sig PDF, I have nothing to do with Adobe but this happens to be my real name initials and I find them cool - as in Planetary Defense Force also http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif .

I'm trying to have some basic understanding of the how the mods work, but won't have enough time to try them all, so I still need advice about what are the best/more interesting one.

As long as I only have the demo (the real game still has to cross the Pond w/o any wormhole), I suppose I can't install the mods ? perhaps the images and sound files though ? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif

And thanks again !