What is so great about EVGE? I've had EV (registered) and EV:O (unregistered and to this point not even played haha) for a while now, but I just recently started checking out the downloads...I read this thread and I was wonderin why everyone loves this patch.
If I d/l it will it alter my current progress in any way? Or does it just add on stuff to my current game (like more ships/missons/etc)?
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Originally posted by ShaggyGlucose:
**What is so great about EVGE? I've had EV (registered) and EV:O (unregistered and to this point not even played haha) for a while now, but I just recently started checking out the downloads...I read this thread and I was wonderin why everyone loves this patch.
If I d/l it will it alter my current progress in any way? Or does it just add on stuff to my current game (like more ships/missons/etc)?
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EVGE being a large expander for EV, will not hinder your current stuff. It changes things on a few ships, but nothing major. Mostly it just adds and does not subtract.
If you havnt DLed it and played through it you're missing out big time.
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Well I just got Galactic Scourge, and I'll be checking it out soon. I'll hafta d/l Game Expander too I guess =P
Are there any known conflicts with running both patches at the same time?
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Originally posted by ShaggyGlucose:
**Well I just got Galactic Scourge, and I'll be checking it out soon. I'll hafta d/l Game Expander too I guess =P
Are there any known conflicts with running both patches at the same time?
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Generally, if a plugin is big, it's incompatible with most others. Usually its a better idea to start different pilots with different plugins.
As for what's so great about EVGE, well, I wouldn't say it's the best plugin out the (Pale gets that spot in my books), but it does add a lot of color and size to the relatively small EV universe.
MickyBIs
PS-Welcome to the boards! If you have a powerful enough Mac, you may want to check out EVN as well, it's newer, slightly more complicated, but has got a lot of neat features, though not as many good plugins as EV/O yet.
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Thanks for the welcome, and I read the readme files associated with the plugins and answered my own question hahaha...
I'll wait for the EV:N port to the PC, since I don't have a Mac haha. I'm runnin an emulator to play EV and EV:O...but I can't wait tp play EV:N!
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Originally posted by ShaggyGlucose:
**I'm runnin an emulator to play EV and EV:O...but I can't wait tp play EV:N!
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You can play Nova on emulator too, it just does suck in speed for carrier combats. Buy OS 8 (for example, eBay), upgrade to 8.1, and get Gamma Ramping patch.
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Originally posted by General Cade Smart:
**You can play Nova on emulator too, it just does suck in speed for carrier combats. Buy OS 8 (for example, eBay), upgrade to 8.1, and get Gamma Ramping patch.
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Thanks for the info, but I'll just wait for the Windows port. It'll be easier than dealing with slowdown and stuff like that. Besides, I never REALLY got into EV till recently, so I wanna play the hell outta that first 
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Originally posted by U.E. Admiral:
**EVGE being a large expander for EV, will not hinder your current stuff. It changes things on a few ships, but nothing major. Mostly it just adds and does not subtract.
If you havnt DLed it and played through it you're missing out big time.
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As MickeyBI said, large plug-ins like this are not compatible w/other plug-ins, particularly large ones.
Also, in response to the post I quoted, I just wanted to point out that it's a very good idea not to use old EV pilot files with EVGE; enough has changed in the plug-in that a new pilot is preferable (in some cases it makes things more challenging, and also, you want to make sure all the pers's show up).
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Originally posted by stoffe:
**Ages ago I made an add-on for Escape Velocity called EV Game Expander (EVGE), which I, due to real-life issues never managed to release the final, polished version of, and forgot about completely until recently.
So now I just wonder, does anybody still play Escape Velocity, and would anyone actually play this add-on if I finally got my thumb out of my rear-end and finished it? If there's no longer any interest, it'd be pointless to put more time into that, long dormant project.
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IMHO, yours and Ben Singely's (Pale} are what MacAddict would call "Freaking Awesome" plugs. 
I would try to be among the first to d/l and play it. There would be alot of interest and anticipation for this. Mike
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Originally posted by msalter:
**IMHO, yours and Ben Singely's (Pale} are what MacAddict would call "Freaking Awesome" plugs.:D
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That rating is given to only a few, the best of all. Probably if they did review plug-ins I could see this myself too.
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Ah well, I've said pretty much all there is to say bout EV methinks.