Challenge Match

[Gryphin]

Yipes! I'll have Pooh Star help me track it though I was sure I did it right.

No later than 6:30 tonight.

[geoschmo]

The map editor allows you to do either. You can mark a system as a "common" starting point, meaning anyone can start there. Those show up in the map editor as boxes with the word any in them. Or you can set it as a "specfic" starting point. In that case you specify the player number for each starting point. In this case Gryphin should be setting specfic starting points. 1, 3, and 4 on one side of the map, and 2, 5 and 6 on the other.

Geoschmo

[Slynky]

See? Told ya I was showing my ignorance! Well, that's pretty kewl. Yep, probably easier to just make some map modifications and adjust team/empire starting positions to put one team on the left side of the map and the other on the right side.

One more question: So, after designating a system as a starting position, does SE4 THEN decide it can split that person's worlds up among one, two, or three different systems? My starting position was in 2 systems and another person's was in 3 systems. So, what governs that?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Slynky:
One more question: So, after designating a system as a starting position, does SE4 THEN decide it can split that person's worlds up among one, two, or three different systems? My starting position was in 2 systems and another person's was in 3 systems. So, what governs that?

That's a little fuzzy. It seems to me to be kind of random. You will have one Homeworld at the spot specified in the editor, but you can't specify additional homeworlds. Sometimes they'll be in different systems, sometiems all in one system. I don't know how it decides.

Geoschmo

[Gryphin]

Posted by Slynky:
Yep, probably easier to just make some map modifications and adjust team/empire starting positions to put one team on the left side of the map and the other on the right side.

I tryed to suprise everyone by putting the teams across the top and bottom. There should have been at least 5 systems between the two teams. I can't wait to see the map.

I'll do left to right or would you like to try more systems.?

[Slynky]

It seems everytime I get involved ina map-making discussion I confuse things. So, I'll defer to the others for any further help... .

[Asmala]

After reading these Posts I think too we should reset the game.

Btw I have noticed that the amount of free scans vary at each time. Sometimes I got one system scanned and sometimes five systems scanned. But this happen only when I have more than one homeworld. Is that just random or what?