Space Empires Universe - Space Empires IV General

Suorce Filter Troubles

zogbug — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:40:33 -0400

When I try to play the grame (SE4), I get a message about not being able to load the source filters. Any sugestions to rectify this?

SEIV and Linux (via Wine) Woes

plinydogg — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:28:10 -0400

I am attempting to run SEIV on Linux through Wine, a program that allows one to run Windows games on Linux machines.

The demo worked great, but I purchased the registered version via Strategy First yesterday and the game won't run because the Internet-based registration system doesn't work.

Whenever I try to run the game (se4.exe) I get an error saying "error while unpacking program, code C. Please report to author."

I attempted to get around this problem by booting into Windows and installing it there. I did this without incident (i.e., the Internet-based registration worked seamlessly) and then copied the Windows game directory over to Linux and attempted to run it. This didn't work either.

Its Time To Say Good Bye

Atrocities — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:54:50 -0400

The amount of people playing SE IV has dropped off dramatically over the last two years to the point that the game is for all intents and purposes, dead. It has been milked for every last cent that it can produce and unless Aaron is willing to revisit the game and fix some of the glaring remaining bugs, so thing that he is not likely going to do, then its a safe bet to say that SE IV is past its prime and now on its last days if not already dead.

So why not get Aaron to release the source code for SE IV and let the modding community have at it? I mean the games earning potential is all but extinct at this point so why not toss the fans a much needed meaty bone and give up the source code so that they can "fix" the remaining issues and perhaps even expand the game some?

Invasion! Beta 0.60 Released

Combat Wombat — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:18:20 -0400

You can download it here

Beta 0.6 marks a large step for the mod with the addition of complete working AI for normal and monster races. It also does a fair ammount of monster balacing to address issues that had shown up in the now defunct pbw games I was running. Multiplex tracking has been changed a bit, all hulls have a base tracking ammount this ammount can only be increased by turning over control of the ship to a Master Computer. Also I have tried to push each hull size closer to having a more specific role.

As usual the mods needs Image Mod and Sound Mod to work properly

Vanilla Neo-VehicleSize.txt

Evil Wayne — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:20:48 -0400

Is there a generic vehiclesize.txt file to enable the extra hulls?
Is that the only file I need to make them work?

Thanks.

Alternate fonts?

Evil Wayne — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:14:51 -0400

Okay, here's an odd question:

Is it possible to change the font for only a single race? I want to use the Borak shipset because they resemble classic UFO Grays. I've found a font that look a lot like alien-crop-circle symbols and it would be swell if I could use it to rename my ships. I'd like to use it in a pbw game and not disturb the other players.

I'm going to guess the answer is no, but I figured I'd ask..

Multiple Installs

Evil Wayne — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:13:04 -0400

I want to install a second copy of SE:IV in another directory for a pbw-mod game. Despite being a long time player, I'm not sure if I'm doing it right and don't want to mess up my original install.

Actually, my original CD has that bug where autoplay wants to reinstall it every time I put it in, so I guess I could just designate a new folder, but if I want to patch it up to Deluxe, will the patch know where to go? I don't want to overwrite anything I've had installed since the dawn of time.

Thanks.

Has any one ever seen a "Points - Change" event work?

Narn — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:51:52 -0400

I have been modding SE4 for a while now and playing it too. My mod is going to be an extensive overhaul of the graphics and the game combined with some modified ideas from existing mods. I am about half way done now. This mod will change just about everything and make ALL of the graphics better.

It is my intention to add over 100 new events with new pictures in addition to the events that have been added by various other mods. While editing the Events file I have not seen any of my new "Points - Change" events occur and it made me realize that I don't think that I have ever seen one happen.

What does 'Point Blank' mean?

arkcheung — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:49:41 -0400

As subject, I'm new to this game, what's 'Point Blank' in the strategy mean?

By the way, what's the difference with Kamikaze and Ram? Aren't they just sacrificing attack?

Imperium Verus

Astorax — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:41:47 -0500

Just a question for anyone that has played this mod before - does it have point defense weapons at all? I've researched quite a few things and still have no tech area for it and none of the weapons I've researched have a version of one. I wouldn't mind so much but that leaves Seekers having no counter whatsoever.

1) Build missile boat
2) Use a max weapons range/don't get hurt strategy
3) ...
4) profit

Anyone have a clue about this?