100 Most Satisfying Moments in SEIV

Arkcon · #1 March 9th, 2005, 04:07 PM

36. Capturing a planet for the first time, and swaping breathable races.

"What, they evolved as 8 foot tall sapient crystals, on a methane gas giant, they hate everybody, but they don't mind being relocated to a huge methane ice world, to build intel facilities I'll use against the parent empire?"

Seriously, I thought I was cheating the first time I did this.

StrategiaInUltima said:
"while the SY ship builds a Star Destroyer base..... never happened to me, but"

Just a heads up, that won't work. Stellar manipulation requires 1 movement point left, and bases never have movement.

NullAshton · #2 March 9th, 2005, 04:12 PM

37. When you finnally finish your stellar manipulation ships for the first time, and slip a star destroying into the enemies homesystem via a created warppoint, then close it on the same turn.

bearclaw · #3 March 12th, 2005, 12:46 AM

K, this isn't an SEIV moment, but SEII. But it's the most satisfying point of my SE career.

Finding a Demo version for SEII and playing it for days on end. Then asking a friend (had no internet at that time) to find info for ordering the full version. He called the next day to tell me that he could not find SEII anywhere (paused just long enough for me to start feeling disappointed), then tells me that he found, bought for me, and already downloaded the full version of SEIII!!!

RudyHuxtable · #4 March 12th, 2005, 01:04 AM

My most satisfying moment in SEIV has to be when I played the Star Trek Mod, and having the first round of diplomatic negotiations between me and the Gorn end with their reply:

"Here is a pile of S***! Enjoy!"

I laughed so hard I farted.

AMF · #5 March 13th, 2005, 12:04 AM

Quote:

RudyHuxtable said:
I laughed so hard I farted.

RudyHuxtable · #6 March 13th, 2005, 04:32 AM

Well, it's true. That has to be one of the most inane things for a diplomat to say to another. How can you expect results when offering excrement?

Smolf · #7 March 13th, 2005, 07:02 AM

Maybe he thought you needed some fertilizer for your organic farms?

Renegade 13 · #8 March 15th, 2005, 03:24 AM

Another one of those "Oops, I'm screwed" things...

63. Opening up a PBW turn-file, and noticing that a good ally of yours has opened 6 warp points and deployed nearly 20 star destroyers to all your systems, has them poised over all your stars except for one where it's two moves away, and over all you're closest partner's stars...

...Yep, that just happened to me. So much for a trusted ally...and so much for me and my partner

I can stop the one star destroyer, and maybe salvage some of my fleet to go on a revenge destroying spree, but that's about it...bummer.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #9 March 15th, 2005, 12:49 PM

Ctrl+RMB always gets 'em..... 'specially when you tag the first one of a bunch that is landing in your kill zone. As soon as they land, they're dead.

But back to topic.

Seeing that a mod you made has been downloaded, and thus knowing that it is playing on PCs all over the world..... or at least in the USA/Canada

Strategia_In_Ultima · #10 March 15th, 2005, 12:24 PM

I built a hotel once, on the first island, but it was never fully staffed and the bloody tourists roamed the island freely..... and all those social minions are taking up valuable minion space you could otherwise allot to more useful science or military minions.

And btw, it's fun to see a tourist panic and then get shot by a guard.

It's even more fun to build a lot of disguised Sentry Guns at your base entrance with overlapping fields of fire, and then when he/she walks into the fire zone, tag him/her for death.....