does the "place empires evenly throughout galaxy" work?

[Silent Sorrow]

Like Geo said, it doesn't work.
By the way, are you playing with "bonus"?
Would be great to me, know how the Tessellate performed starting close to you.

I just downloaded the Tessellate race yesterday after reading though the ENTIRETY of that AI deathmatch 2 thread to find out which AIs I should play against. I didn't give the AIs any bonus points. Should I have? (All I did was set their difficulty to "hard".)

As for how the game's going, I'm crushing them simply because I expanded fast and was able to bottle them up in about five systems. I'm about to deliver the coup de grace. So it hasn't been anywhere near as challenging as I'd hoped for.

But I'm hoping the Vikings will give me more of a fight. And then there's the United Flora (which I haven't run into yet and I assume are on the far side of the quadrant opposite me), but from looking at the scores, I'm guessing that the Vikings are kicking UF ***. So it'll probably come down to me vs. the Vikings.

All that said, I think this match would be ENTIRELY different if the four empires really had started evenly spaced.