why is SEIV so good to you?

General Woundwort · #1 April 21st, 2003, 12:23 AM

The flexibility. Hands down. In other games (like RFTSII or STUN) you can play around with the percentages somewhat but you are pretty much stuck with the stock ships and races. With SEIV, the sky's the limit. New shipsets, new races (with culture, speech, research, ad inf.), new graphics and sounds (I immediately replaced those silly warp points with B5 jump gates

)... and that's just playing with the base files. Get into true mods and you've got a game with darn near infinite replay value.

And the way everybody sings the praises of PBW, I may just have to get off my duff and get started over there pretty soon...

TerranC · #2 April 21st, 2003, 02:22 AM

Why is SE4 so good to me?

Because it means SE5's coming

Taera · #3 April 21st, 2003, 02:26 AM

a lot of reasons. i've been here for about eight years for now so i should have a lot of

*Great community. This is the most unique community ever, for me. And i enjoy being a part of it.
*Roleplaying - for the most part i am in the roleplaying community, be it the ladder, hadrian's projects or the SE:L. Thats actually why i came here.
*As you all said, no uber-strategy. A good example is AoE - build like 30 catapults or balistas and go, kill them. no fun.
*Each time something new: AI or human players each time i face new challenged, never repeated.
*Friends! I have a lot of friends from this community
*Strategic challenge - it it just fun to invent the way to crush that planet, kill that ship or best that fleet. Its different each time and one has to ponder to great lengths what he's doing, what he will do and what others are doing

the list could go on but those are the main parts of it.

Taera · #4 April 21st, 2003, 05:36 AM

i just realized, i've been here almost half of my whole life

mac5732 · #5 April 21st, 2003, 05:58 AM

For all the below reasons and because the game its fun and enjoyable to play, I',m always coming back to it...

just some ideas mac

Gryphin · #6 April 21st, 2003, 02:04 PM

I enjoy the game because it pushes most of my buttons:
Creativety - Ship sets - Gryphin Mod - System Names - etc....
Problem Solving - Ship Set Design - Gryphin Mod technical issues - Strategys
Human Interaction - From the Gryphin Growltigga thread to everyone here and then some
Humor - All kinds
Excitment - All kinds
Sex - The Gryphin Positon and Circle the Wagons and a certain ship set, (still under constructon) I can't release to the public.
A Chance to Help People - Major source of personal satisfaction
Educaiton - History, Culture, Sports, Science ect...
And all of the reasons listed below and yet to be listed.

Mephisto · #7 April 21st, 2003, 02:21 PM

Argh! I almost managed to forget about the "Circle the Wagons" and now that! Month of therapy - lost!