The award-winning Space Empires IV is the latest edition in the Space Empires series. A grand strategy title in the space 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) genre, Space Empires has already found a place in the heart of strategy gamers everywhere. The Space Empires Deluxe Edition adds all the latest tweaks and upgrades to Space Empires IV.

You can research technology, design new ships, wage war on a tactical level, put down rebellions, meet and greet new species, and conquer all know space. Additionally, all the level and campaign design tools are included; allowing anyone to become apart of the expansive Space Empires Mod community.

Here are some key features of "Space Empires IV Gold Patch":

· 24bit 3D rendered graphics.
· Support for 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions.
· Turn-Based Game Play.
· Detailed Tactical Combat (and a combat simulator to test your designs!).
· New vehicle types and sizes: Ships, Bases, Transports, Fighters, Mines, Satellites, Troops, and Weapons Platforms.
· Completely design and customize all of your vehicles.
· Detailed Empire management: Research, Intelligence, Politics, Construction Queues, Vehicle Design, and more.
· Detailed game setup: Victory Conditions, Restricted Technologies, Galaxy Layout, Player Configuraton, and more.
· Large Galaxy: 100 solar systems with 15 planets each.
· Discover: Black Holes, Nebulae, Binary Stars, Trinary Stars, Asteroid Belts, Gas Giants, Cosmic Storms, and more!
· Huge Technology Tree: Hundreds of tech levels, 500+ components and facilities.
· Detailed Race Creation: Unique ship pictures, race picture, racial traits, technology, history, and more.
· Completely customizable game graphics: Create your own planets, stars, vehicles, etc.
· Completely customizable data files: All game information is in easily editable text files. Create your own Components, Facilities, Vehicle Sizes, etc.
· Completely customizable AI players: Create your own AI players with unique traits, styles, and speech.
· Game comes with 18 unique races to play or customize (or just create your own!)
· Completely revamped and "futurized" user-interface. Very friendly and intuitive!
· Randomly generated map for every game (or load an existing map).
· Advanced Political features: Protectorates, Subjugated empires, Trade all possible game items, claim territories, and more.
· Random Events: Rebellions, earthquakes, supernovas, industrial accidents, cosmic storms, and the occasional plague!


What's New in This Release:

· Game would error when loading old Settings.txt with track number fields.
· The game will now allow either and translate tracks to music filenames.


Note: This will upgrade your Space Empire to Deluxe Edition.