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Originally posted by capnq:

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I think when the hardcode was written he just assumed that no AI empire would EVER get that big I think the more likely assumption is that he thought no one in their right mind would mod the quadrant size limit above 100 systems. I've yet to finish a game in a "normal" large quad, and have trouble imagining that I'd want to bump that up to the 255 hard limit. Reading your reports of your Huge Game experiments almost frightens me sometimes.

Before I started saving my empire I had played a half dozen games in 255 quadrants with over 500 colonies planted by hand in each. I then colonized over 900 planets by hand in each of two 255 quadrant games to get my racial score up. This second test game of the AI planting about 1000 colonies has pumped the Clays race score above 600,000 points. I guess it depends on how much time you are prepared to put into a single game. An unmodded 255 quadrant fully colonized by hand ending about turn 150 takes me 100-150 hours depending on how much difficulty the AI causes me after I blitz at turn 120....