[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by God Emperor:
MB,
Reloaded the modpack Data files and everything is fine now. Must have had a file that was edited in some way.
Anyway, was just checking a few saves and noticed that my races seemed short of resources in their games (you also made a comment previously).
eg Praetorians in their Last game had Ice Colonisation by turn 110 but were never able to afford to build an Ice coloniser.

Did you set the game up with No Bonus? (My races are optimised for low bonus which would explain their running out of resources - I suspect a few other modders have optimised theirs for low bonus as well as it makes the AI a better challenge by offsetting their inability to optimise use of resources).

Regards,

GE

All the games were without bonus.
Why?
1) Were all games played between AIs, and the "human" is only nominal.
2) All the AI start with 3 good planets, and all the planets available to generate resources, are very good, then, the AI have more available resources than in standard games.
3) The most important reason: when I wrote the game settings for the games, nobody suggested to change the bonus!!!!

For the first round, I can't change this setting... I'm near to finish and would not like to restart everything!
I could change it to LOW BONUS, for the next steps of this contest... but would like to hear some more opinions first.

Finally, want to say that most the races had not problems with the resources... In my personal view, put this setting in: Maximum Maintenance Percent of Revenue := 99
it's something high. Maybe would be ok for medium or high bonus, I think.
My two races had 90, and never where out of resources.
In my opinion (of course), believe it's something dangerous put this setting so high. If for some reason (even with high bonus could happen), the AI is out of supplies, never will be able to build a new colony and compensate this problem, if the AI doesn't lost some ships first...

[ November 25, 2002, 17:42: Message edited by: Master Belisarius ]