More than 20 ?

[chewy027]

well i thought i'd drudge this subject back up seeing as how the AI has gotten a little better and that the amount of player created races is getting pretty huge.

So am i the only one here that wants to be able to play with more than 20 races in a game or what? 20 just doesn't do it for me anymore. With all the great races out there now and the AI that are getting pretty tough that go with them i would love to have more than 20 races in one game. IMO this would make the game much more enjoyable and more difficult.

I am interested to see what everyone else thinks about this.

[Jourin]

20 is more then enough for me. I like to play with 10 AI races (mod pack), and 5 neutrals. When I play with 20 15/5, the quandrant just gets too crowded. If AIs are close they just fight each other and stay weak. If they have some room to grow in the beginning they provide much better play - at least to me.

[Mephisto]

If you are not using a really huge galaxy (200+ sytems) I would suggest to not use more then 10 races at once. If you use 20 races the AI will waste a lot of energy, ships and resources to destroy each other instead of you. Sometimes less is more.

[chewy027]

hmm well i guess i always play in huge quadrants usually 255 systems and 20 races is not enough for me. I have actually been playing in smaller quadrants lately to make it harder on myself with 20 races.I find that the more races packed in especially if they start in the same system as you can be real challenging. That and the fact that i can never include all of the races i want to makes me think more races would be better.

[ZeroAdunn]

You are not alone, I too love to play in huge quadrants and would like to play with more races. It would be nice if 20 was the number of regular races you could have, and then you could double that in neutrals, sure that would make turn gens really long, but man it would make for some interesting games.

[HEMAN]

I HAVE THE POWER!!!. A SOLUTION, In (birth of the federation) there where random space monsters,borg, crystal entity in which they spawn etc. THIS WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE, from my experince believe you me.
I also read on the MOO 3 discussion Boards that space monsters have been dropped. Too bad. Not a major feature but a nicely 'distinctive' one. If MM would pick them up I bet it would attract a lot of attention from the die-hard MOO fans. If all players can email suggestions on this to MM,. WHAT do you guys think?.

[chewy027]

space monsters have been reqested many times before by many players. That would be cool. Bot i would still love to be able to play with a huge galaxy full of more than 20 races and neutrals.

[chewy027]

well i talked to Aaron about adding more than 20 slots and he said it would be pretty easy to do. However, he said it would slow the game down a lot with that many races at once, and because of that he wouldn't want to expand the number because many players wouldn't like having that slow down unless of course they had a computer that could handle it.

The fact that it would be a relatively easy change though is good. And I think if enough people wanted the ability to have more races Aaron would change it. So if you would like to have that option post in this thread and i'll relay your wishes to Aaron. The more poeple the better. Thanks

[Jourin]

If it is easy, let him do it. I would probably still play with less then 20 anyways so I would not care and it would make other people happy. But only if it is easy. I would rather have Arron spend his time on completing drones which I am still waiting for. I see Drones to be like short range single use warp capable missiles which are excellent for a Warp point attack.