Ordered and Shipped!!

[smitty]

I know that no one will care but.....

I ordered my copy today!! Yahoo!! And it said that it shipped Wahoo!!!! I can hardly wait, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!

Yes, I am excited.

[oleg]

No, we care. It is entirely possible you will eventually make an "ultimate mod' (rememeber that, guys, http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif ) or create the most beatifull rsce shipset ever !!!

[Mephisto]

Kiss your life as it was good bye. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Fyron]

Se4 has ensnared yet another victim! Muahahahah! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif j/k http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Alpha Kodiak]

Resistance is futile.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Instar]

Hooah!

[Maxx]

Congrats..... Got mine Last week and I am very happy.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
Resistance is futile.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">At least with SE4, this is true. It is hardly true for the Borgs though. With the Borg, assimilation attempts are futile. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[smitty]

Tommorrow should be the day I get it!!!!! oh joy, oh joy

[Fyron]

Tomorrow shall be the day when your social life comes to a screeching halt. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Katchoo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Tomorrow shall be the day when your social life comes to a screeching halt. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Amen to that! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Maxx]

After you figure out whats going on I suggest that you install the TDM and FQM mods. The standard A.I is a little weak without TDM.

[smitty]

Muahahahah! I have it! It has arrived! But alas, I am stuck at work. Is that a fever I feel coming on....

Tonight we be a toughy, SEIV or war......

[Raging Deadstar]

*The posters of this thread gather together in the cramped little virtual church. Fyron is sitting in the front row acting vorlonish and the rest of the thread are suited up to mark yet another demise. The priest (blah) steps forward and begins to speak! A coffin is marched down the aisle with "Smitty's Social Life" engraved into a metal plate.*

"We come here today to mourn the passing of Smitty's social life, it was a nice social life, somewhat quiet and lacking of girls (jk) but it was a good life altogether..."

Sorry Smitty i couldn't help myself, if you want revenge please come and commit a random act of cartoon violence on me in the cantina! I'll be waiting... *Brood**Brood*

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ March 20, 2003, 21:06: Message edited by: Raging Deadstar ]

[Fyron]

Actually, I am an Antaran now, not a Vorlon. Do keep up RD. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[Raging Deadstar]

Ooooooh so thats what the tree looking thingy is!!! i was going to call you an ent but it's obviosuly babylon 5 or something simmilar that i obviously don't watch, bah humbug! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Gryphin]

Smitty end of your social life or marriage or both.
:: You have been warned :: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

[Foiden]

Well, I'm going to be different. Smitty, you are now FREE!!!! Yes Free!!!

Free to be enslaved by SE4, but Free nonetheless.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
Ooooooh so thats what the tree looking thingy is!!! i was going to call you an ent but it's obviosuly babylon 5 or something simmilar that i obviously don't watch, bah humbug! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No, Antarans are from Master of Orion. This pic (and the other graphics) is the only good thing that came from MOO3. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif It looks nothing like an ent. If you could see the original pic, you would see what I mean. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Escaflowne]

Question for all you wise old masters.

Since I just got SE4Gold (for no other reason then to play the newest Versions of proportions) will that mean that I can no longer play the games I am in since they are pre-gold games? Or will I still be able to play if I install over the old game files?

Or should I just make 2 copies of SE4, one Regular and one Gold (hereby refered to as extra crispy)?

[Baron Grazic]

Escaflowne, I'm in the same boat as you.
My Gold Version just arrived and am currently installing all the patches and extras.
You will need 2 Space Empires Directories - 1 Standard & 1 Extra Crispy. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

You will then have to patch it to the latest Version, install TDM and any and all other mods you want...

[Escaflowne]

Okay... Proportions is whacked, but in a good "I'm not quite sure what I'm doing but this won't get me killed immediately" kinda way. I finally find some of the computers and they all have 30 ships and I have about 4. Some where happy, others hostile.

Noticed a few things that bug me. In Proportions 2.5.1 (most current that I know of) Both the Starliner Module and Colony Development techs just keep goign without greying out to show they are maxed out.

Second, not sure it his is related to the Mod or the patch to my Extra Crispy game, but I can no longer add multi-line notes about systems. Where hitting enter used to cause a new line to start it now closes the note window. Highly annoying. Any ideas about that?

[PvK]

Originally posted by Escaflowne:
...In Proportions 2.5.1 (most current that I know of) Both the Starliner Module and Colony Development techs just keep goign without greying out to show they are maxed out.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">2.5.2.2 or 2.5.3.1 are the newest Versions.

You probably have not maxed out those tech areas, but need to research some other tech area to get their benefits, because they have multiple prerequisites. As far as I remember, anyway.


Second, not sure it his is related to the Mod or the patch to my Extra Crispy game, but I can no longer add multi-line notes about systems. Where hitting enter used to cause a new line to start it now closes the note window. Highly annoying. Any ideas about that?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The mod shouldn't cause that. I hadn't noticed.

PvK

[Escaflowne]

Okay, thanks PvK.

[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by Escaflowne:
Second, not sure it his is related to the Mod or the patch to my Extra Crispy game, but I can no longer add multi-line notes about systems. Where hitting enter used to cause a new line to start it now closes the note window. Highly annoying. Any ideas about that?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's probably related to the Extra Crispiness... one of the things MM mentions in the history file is that a couple of the patches included more support for using Esc and Enter to exit the pop-up windows. I don't use the system notes feature myself, so I can't give any useful advice on how to deal with multi-line notes in that window.

[Raging Deadstar]

I don't know about the galaxy notes thing either, i tried holding shift and enter as well but that closed it, i guess you just have to hold space until you're on a new line http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif AHHHH It's like old mobile phones and text messaging! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

It's a shame because i always liked to include little things in the galaxy notes thing, i think it should be changed back to what it was pre gold

[dogscoff]

Both the Starliner Module and Colony Development techs just keep goign without greying out to show they are maxed out.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">For starliner modules you need to research cargo in parallel. You probably don't want to advance too quickly in colonial dev because it makes upgrading cities hideously expensive. Better to research it slowly to control your upgrade options.

But if you do want to race on to metropolis and arcology, research construction and industry in parallel.

[smitty]

Smitty: ripping himself away from the game long enough to post.....

Wow, cool, having a great time!!!
Gotta go, one more turn.....

[rdouglass]

Originally posted by smitty:
...Gotta go, one more turn.....<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Never heard THAT before... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[smitty]

I must say, it is addicting. I really have been enjoying it. I am still playing my first game (unmodded). What a bLast. I have always been a big fan of space empire type games, MOO, MOO2, VGA Planets, etc. But based upon how much I am enjoying SEIV and the bad comments concerning MOO3 I will not be purchasing MOO3.

I seem there is a FAQ topic that has this monster posting. This should be helpful for some things. Are there any other FAQ type things somewhere?

Thanks,

[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
I don't know about the galaxy notes thing either, i tried holding shift and enter as well but that closed it, i guess you just have to hold space until you're on a new line http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif AHHHH It's like old mobile phones and text messaging! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

It's a shame because i always liked to include little things in the galaxy notes thing, i think it should be changed back to what it was pre gold<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I just tested using Alt+Enter and Ctrl+Enter as well; both combos closed the window rather than inserting a carriage return. However, I did discover that if you paste text into the window, any carriage returns will be pasted in as well; so you could type your notes using notepad and then copy/paste into the galaxy notes window...