[Ruatha]

Originally posted by alarikf:
Oh, well, I think I would put it at 48 or 72 hours in any case. (that 36 hours thing was from a first draft I think)

For the ancient race thing, well, I would play the machine entities, so I could make the map. I'd limit myself in the expected ways: no landing on the sphereworld, no treaties with other players, etc...I think thsat's the only way to pull it off really...

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Originally posted by Ruatha:
36 hours is a bit tight but I might make it, I'm interested... (atleast 48 hours is really better for me...), but still...
How will you solve the ancient race?
Will they be a race like the others or will you play the map for 10-100 turns to set it up?

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Yeah, limiting is all well.
But how to make it strong enough to work as what you intend?
perhaps 3 planets start for all players, one of the ancients starting points as a sphereworld in a system with plenty of sphereworlds and planets but no warp points, to give "invisible" resources... It got to have an edge, otherwise large empires will walk right over them!
And where to build the ships that are needed? You'll need planets to make shipyards to make ships.. competing with ordinary empires?