Anybody up for a game of stock SE4 at PBW?

[Fyron]

You should consider using PvK Balance Mod to eliminate the racial point cost nerfing.

[Possum]

Imperator Fyron said:
You should consider using PvK Balance Mod to eliminate the racial point cost nerfing.

Please explain "racial point cost nerfing" ?

[Captain Kwok]

It's a reference to the unbalanced costs for various racial traits and aptitudes in SE:IV, which the PvK Balance Mod addresses. You really only need the players to use the mod to make their empire files and not run the game under it.

[Suicide Junkie]

Intel is also a bad idea in general.

The two possible results of intel on; nothing happens because everybody has a handful of points going to CI3, or somebody gets completely demolished because they failed to research intel early enough.

[Suicide Junkie]

A personal opinion:
I like the layouts of naturally connected galaxies better than the forced connection...

Try turning off "all wp connected", and then repeatedly re-generating the map until all the warppoints end up connected by chance.