Love AI War and/or Tidalis? We could really use your help...

[Lancefighter]

well, thats just it - I am one of those players, where if you give me a chance, I will (try to) micromanage every single one of my units. in something turn based, this is fairly simple.
 I grew up on MAX,  (mechanized assault an exploration), which I wholly blame my addiction to this type of strategy game. (and not to mention, i believe, the first game of its scale to offer full map -> few units view).. pretty much a game that requires micromanagement to get places, at least the way I played.. I would always end up blowing up radars and such and sit 'just' out of sensor range >.>
Awesome game, tis a pity that the AI isnt fantastic 

But right - even se4 had some things, they.. in theory had a system of ministers, which I absolutely never used. I assume they did something, but.. er.. *shrug*

[Mánagarmr]

Hmmm
So, I just reinstalled SEV and Balancemod...(got inspired... damn you!) This Cleartype hacking? Links as how to do this?

[Salamander]

I never used the ministers in SE4 either, but I too do a lot of micromanaging. I've only actually finished a handful of my SE4 games as it gets to the:"I know I'm going to win this game. I just need to mop-up my enemies" stage. I spent most of my time designing ships and units as I found that the most enjoyable aspect of the game. I used a heavily modded version of the base SE4 game with lots more hull types and expanded the value of the special (organic, crystalline, etc) techs, especially if you took  2 or more and could make some interesting hybrid components and facilities.

I bought and have played SE5 but I always cringe at the AI handling of my fleets as I always did it manually in SE4 and my designs virtually required it. Keeping my all point defense SDNs moving with the offensively armed ships took my intervention as I was never happy with the AI settings for the ships in SE4 either.

My favorite Paradox titles (EU3, Vic 2, and HoI3) are all psuedo-realtime but you can pause them and adjust the speed up and down to taste, and they still have a turn-based game 'feel' to them. I just wish they had less annoying bugs and less of a checksum issue between people who buy the game different ways.

[Admiral]

SEIV was a favourite of mine

I built the original SE:IV Play by Web site. It finally went away about a year ago and is now a completely new site run by someone else. That was a fun game.

[Azure]

Hi guys!

It wasn't until a couple hours ago that I got to know about AI War. I tried the demo for an hour or so and then I dove into this forum. I'm unemployed at the moment and I really wish to be able to live out from what I write so I couldn't help but spare some of my scarce euros to help such a great piece of time-engulfing brainy entertainment.

I wish I could do some more, at least for the moment I'm writing this while Impulse is installing my copy of AI War + the 2 expansions 

Forgive my weird English, I'm from Spain so I will surely write some  thingies 

See you around here!

[keith.lamothe]

Thank you very much for the support

[Salamander]

I can't believe I forgot to mention Dominions 2 & 3 among my turn-based strategy games! In a similar move to what I did for my friends wiht AI War, I also bought copies of Dominions 3 for several of my close friends. Now I'm debating buying Tidalis for them all too just because I can. 

[RCIX]

So 4.0's been out for a whole 2 days! How are the sales going?

[x4000]

So 4.0's been out for a whole 2 days! How are the sales going?

We've made more in the last two days than we did in the last two months (even with all the hoopla about our financial situation).  So, that's definitely an improvement.  I think we'll be able to make it to January at this stage, if the sale keeps doing as well as it has been over the next few days.  And if LotS does well, maybe a couple more months beyond that.  It's looking like we might actually be clawing our way out to the point where we can get the first Alden Ridge betas out in the spring, and ride off that plus possibly more AI War expansions if we have to.  It's not the path I'd planned on months ago, but it's not oblivion either.  That's all contingent on things continuing on their current course, naturally, but so far so good, so fingers crossed.

[Winter Born]

Yay!

[Rustayne]

That's great news x4000.  Glad to hear you guys are doing a bit better.

[x4000]

Me too. Thanks for all the support guys!

[HitmanN]

I'm a bit behind here. Purchased TZR last night. Gonna look into CoN too eventually. Good to hear things are going good though!

[Dathknight]

I've played AI War again after an half year. The changes are awesome, the music is amazing (Revelations 9-6 is a masterpiece) and the game is pure fun. Keep on working like this.

[Mánagarmr]

Wewt! Glad to see things are improving! Here's to it staying that way!