Campaign Creations

I know quite a few of you guys did acquire Space Empires 5, I intend to start a multiplayer simultaneous non-tcp/ip with whoever wishes to join in which will start on June 15.

Since most of you will be newbies or rookies, this game will be more of a human team vs computers for a comp stomp. Thus it will be more of an introduction game to try the game and even have your questions answered while avoiding to die horribly. You can also bail out if you just dislike the game and not feel that you screwed up the game by doing so.

The pace is intended will probably be 1 turn per 2 days (being more or less a 10-30 minutes investment per turn). In short, you will play your turn on your own end then send me your orders file and ill process the turn with all order files and upload the next turn for everyone to download and so on.

However since Stock SE5 is kind of slow to get somewhere (requires 20 turns to get anywhere interesting), I intend to make this game played on my mod which have 5x resources gain, 5x construction speed and 3x ship movement so that it gets somewhere quick. In addition, 5 planets start will be chosen to make it even quicker.

For non-SE4 and non-SE5 players, it's kind of Chinese but here's the change log of my mod for more experienced Space Empires players : http://hosted.samods.org/replays/other/SE5/CC/RickyModChanges.txt


Required files

Sidenote : Most files are compressed as RAR and require WinRAR from http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm . Decent compression program to have anyway.

SE5 Stock Patch v1.79
Installation : Just run the patch program.
http://www.spaceempires5.com/files/se5patch_v179.exe

Fyron's Quadrant Mod 5 aka FQM (Prerequiste for my mod since my mod is combined with FQM's features).
Installation : Follow the instructions on the website. Do ensure you download the required picture files and not just the FQM mod itself.
http://fqm5.spaceempires.net/

My own 5x mod (Dependent on FQM's picture files)
Installation : Extract it in the GameTypes folder of your SE5 folder.
http://hosted.samods.org/replays/other/SE5/CC/RickyMod_x5_v1.09.rar

Required Preparation before game starts

-> Play the game's tutorial so you get an idea what to do instead of rushing in and asking all the most basic questions already covered in the tutorial.

-> After installing every correctly ...
a) Hit the new game button
b) pick "Unnamed Upgraded AI with FQM COMBO x5 v1.09 multi4" as mod.
c) Go to the Empire tab
d) Create your empire file to upload since I will need all your empire files to start the multiplayer game. You do NOT need to fully start a game, only to create the empire file.

Before creating your empire, set the following details in the new game's options :
Starting Tech Points : (Medium) 1 million (so you can pick 1 million worth of tech for your empire)
Racial Points : (High) 5000 (pick more racial traits)

When creating your empire, ensure you pick the racial trait "Ricky Quicker Gameplay" (gives 5x resources, etc.) at the end of the list of racial traits but do NOT pick the racial trait "Ricky Special Settings 1".

Then save your empire via the "Save Empire to File". It will be then in your "SavedEmpires" folder of your SE5 golder and it it will be one to upload in this thread.

-> To ensure everything is alright, start a quick singleplayer game with my mod to check if you get any errors or obvious missing things. If you do have errors, you probably didn't install the FQM's dependent pictures right.

Game setup

Here's the game setup for this game.

Multiplayer Game, Simultaneous, Different Computers, File Transfer mode (not TCP/IP)
Team Mode : Humans vs Computers
Computer Quantity : More or less a 1:1 ratio of humans/computers
Computer Difficulty : Medium
Quadrant Size : Large
Technology Cost : Low
Starting Planets : 5
Starting Resources  : (High) 100,000
Starting Tech Points : (Medium) 1 million
Racial Points : (High) 5000

And here's my empire file.

For kicks ...

Emperor : Sir Ricky_Honejasi
Empire Name : Loladin Empire
Empire Type : Chess Democracy

So only 5 days left before the game starts.

Do remember that you can enter the game to try it and bail out later if you simply don't like it ... this specific game is pretty much intended for that since few did really play SE5 so far. In addition, it's the best opportunity to ask questions about the game rather than being left to figure out everything by yourself.

I'll post my .emp file later today to give fair game.  You guys should too in order to get a feel for it.

So only 2 days left. I know barely anyone submitted to be part of the game but it's pretty much your best opportunity to try the game in all honesty.

If for some reason you don't know how to make an empire file OR you don't know where to find your empire file for uploading, do tell.