Ah, you've hit upon one of the key points...the Machine Entities, as servants of the Ancients whose only purpose is to protect them from all others, were seeded in the quandrant. As soon as aliens arrived, their Ancient sensors detected them, and the process of the rebirth of the Machine Entities began. They are a society, just with one purpose, sort of like the Borg...
SO...how do I make them as I envision? A little trick someone else turned me on to: all the players are 2000 points. Just before the game starts, I'll bump up the points to 5000, and add a 5000 point machine race. This is so it can have Anceint Race, Emotionless, and Cybernetic and a few other things.
It may seem a bit tricky, but, I fully expect the machines to be nuked pretty early on. Since they can't make treaties and fight everyone, they'll be the natural target of all others...
But at least this way they might be a bit of a challenge in the beginnging, no?
comments?
thanks,
alarik
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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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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?