Should I buy this game???

Emperor Fritsch the Dense · #1 February 21st, 2005, 12:43 PM

This is by far one of the best games ive ever played. And the big plus is when you beat it and its looking like its going to get boring...you just find and install the mods that these fine individuals have created to breath new life into the game. Outside of Everquest this is the top game in time ive spent playing, and im a huge gamer.

Bobhouse · #2 February 21st, 2005, 02:07 PM

The ai on SE4 is pretty good for an ai. I mean its easy to tell its not a human opponent but it can put up a challenge.

Intimidator · #3 February 21st, 2005, 04:14 PM

I understand what Ragnarok-X means, The AI isn't the best part of the game. But I agree more with Bobhouse, I saw 'Worse' AI than the one from SEIV.

And indeed, use TDM-mod, put all the AI settings to high and play against only 8 or 10 AI on an large map............

But if you want diplomacy, Go for PBW/Multiplayer (I don't think you will have an very hard time to find people to play on this forum.)

Intimidator

tweek · #4 February 21st, 2005, 06:49 PM

Thank you for the feedback everyone,

I tried to look for Neo-standard pictures mod. The only thing I found was Neo-Expansion Pack at www.spaceepires.net So is this the same mod?

One more thing, should I install all these mods after applying the latest SE4Gold patch? Does it matter in which order the mods are applied?

Thanks again,
Tweek

Fyron · #5 February 21st, 2005, 07:36 PM

You should install the SE4 patch first.

The Neo-Standard is defined on this site: http://www.dogscoff.co.uk/neostand.htm

The Neo-Expansion Pack is a collection of images matching this standard for the stock shipsets. It just adds new images that mods can make use of.

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 February 22nd, 2005, 02:04 AM

Did anyone give the PBW address? seiv.pbw.cc

Automated email play.

Atrocities · #7 February 22nd, 2005, 04:31 AM

There are many mods that use NEO-STANDARD ships. Adamant through the Star Trek mod have callings for them. But the best way to get them all is to simply make your own mod. That is were a lot of the underlining fun lays for Space Empires IV.

BTW, NASY has many neo-standard compliant ship sets, including all of the star trek sets, say for the Tholians. (The new Federations sets are not yet posted, but will be soon.)

Suicide Junkie · #8 February 22nd, 2005, 06:56 PM

The neostandard isn't a mod or anything.

It is a standardized naming scheme for extra race pictures.
EG:
If you're a shipset artist, and have made a death star like ship: you save that as the closest neostandard name ..."_worldship.bmp"

If you're a modder who wants to include a "battlemoon", you use "_worldship.bmp", since a fair number of shipsets are likely to have it.

If the mod called for "battlemoon.bmp" and the artist saved his picture as "deathstar.bmp", you would see nothing.
Instead, with the neostandard mediating names, you get to see those fancy extra pictures used in more places.