Starting Resources

[Evil Rich]

I think I'm missing something.

When you start a new game, if you set the starting resources to 100,000, as far as I can tell you still only have storage for 50,000.

After the first turn you lose all but 50,000 of each. This looks like either a bug, a stupid feature, or something I'm missing.

Is there any way to keep the starting resources??

[geoschmo]

It's not exactly the most well thought out game option is it?

It makes more sense, and I have only seen it used for, games with ten starting planets. There at least you have a chance of using a large portion of the resources before they go away.

Also you can ignore the resources and just think of it as a way to get a bigger boost to research at the game start, since you get the same number of those ponts as the other. I think that's probably what was intended for anyway.

But you can modify the settings.txt if you'd like and increase everyone's storage limit.

code:

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Minimum Empire Point Storage                                          := 50000

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Just change that to 100k, or whatever you want.

Geoschmo

[ July 08, 2002, 18:23: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Skulky]

out of curriosity do you get 100k intel points (that could be stored in a bunch of lvl 1) for posterity?

[capnq]

out of curriosity do you get 100k intel points (that could be stored in a bunch of lvl 1) for posterity?

No, it's 100k of each of the three resources, and 100k research points. The latter also have to be spent on the first turn, or they're all lost.

Suggestion for SE V: have separate settings for starting resources and research points.

[Fyron]

You cannot start Intelligence Projects until you meet another empire, no matter how many you generate.

[dumbluck]

You DO get bonus Intel points on your first turn. But Unless another empire starts in-system with you, you can't use them. As was pointed out, you must be in contact with another race to run any intel project. That includes counter-intel.