does the "place empires evenly throughout galaxy" work?

Arkcon · #1 July 21st, 2003, 05:59 PM

Hey there, I'm jumping in late but I gotta say, the evenly spaced function does do something -- only when its turned off do you end up with two races in the same system . Really bad if the opponent is the Krill or the Amonkre.

BTW, the TDM modpack races do need at least a small bonus, to defend them against the possibility of starting surronded by meager planets. The Rage should have conqured the neutral and had 2 homeworlds by now. Survive that.

United Flora, with religious and organic racial techs, will need a bonus to complete research in a timely fashion. That's why the Space Vikings are winning, they don't use racial tech.

I just started a TDM game on medium bonus. Ouch. I have my home system. That's it. I researched frigates. The Krill had destroyers with DUC III. I got APB2 and Shield 2, they have LC, DUC V, Shield III. The Abbidion hate me, and glass worlds in between trade alliances, and to think I used to think they were nice orange puffballs.

[ July 21, 2003, 17:00: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

Q · #2 July 21st, 2003, 06:10 PM

One odd thing I realized about placing the empires: As a single human player I almost always have an AI empire in an adjacent system, even if there are few empires in a large quadrant with more than 200 systems. Did you see this too??

Loser · #3 July 21st, 2003, 07:32 PM

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Originally posted by Q:
Did you see this too??

I do not see this. I play 20/255 cluster w/o connected warp points, generated and regenerated until all systems are connected.

Erax · #4 July 21st, 2003, 10:36 PM

The solution seems simple to me. We can generate games (choosing starting positions for the AI), then trade savegames. Empires will be evenly distributed but you don't know where they are.

Arkcon · #5 July 26th, 2003, 07:00 PM

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Originally posted by Andres:
Most quadrants aren’t even to begin with.

Absolutely right. I tried to make a map with even distribution of starting planets, not all starting at the very corner of the map, with at least two systems between races. Try it yourself and see. For a medium map, it's pretty difficult to get eight races evenly spaced like that.

tesco samoa · #6 July 26th, 2003, 08:03 PM

i think i am getting the hang of it now.

it is tricky

oleg · #7 July 27th, 2003, 06:05 AM

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Originally posted by Loser:

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Originally posted by Q:
Did you see this too??

I do not see this. I play 20/255 cluster w/o connected warp points, generated and regenerated until all systems are connected.

Neither do I. Just a bad luck I think. But in any case there is nothing "even" about empires placement.