"STANDARD" game settings??

JesusFreak · #1 March 13th, 2003, 12:08 AM

Ok, so now there are two people that say the Computer races adjust their Empire Race Points according to what I choose or the difficulty I choose, and one guy says they always remain the same.

WHICH IS IT? and where are you getting this information... just play experience? Or is there a more in depth help manual than what I have.

Suicide Junkie · #2 March 13th, 2003, 12:27 AM

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Take rock oxygen as your trait, more races use this, but you will start off with more planets closer for you to colonize

The numbers of each planet/atmosphere type are quite balanced in the unmodded game.

Take an uncommon one, and you'll have much less competition. Vaccuum breathers (can't have breathable Gas giants, but get more moons) and Ice/methane combos are the only special ones, but they are only off by a small fraction.

I know for sure that the AI difficulty does not affect racial characteristics or racial techs chosen. Those choices depend ONLY on the number of points available to be spent and the AI script in question (AI_general.txt).
AI difficulty settings below HARD turn off ministers and make the AIs dumber. (IE, they dont use mines, or population transports, or whatever)

I even wrote a program to edit those files automatically in order to add and remove traits from the race so that they would be compatible with my Pirates & Nomads mod.

[ March 12, 2003, 22:29: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

JesusFreak · #3 March 13th, 2003, 12:55 AM

ok, cool. I'll take yer word for it.

So now what is up with the manual? it kinda sucks. The game is very intuitive, but it seems that there is a lot of info left out. Moons for instance (which you mentioned in your post) are mentioned nowhere... at least that I can find. What do they do? The answer to that is not so important as where am I supposed to read about them? I'll have lots and lots of basic questions.

primitive · #4 March 13th, 2003, 01:25 AM

Hi,

There are some good sources for info, try:

1: The FAQs (Stickyfied on top of page)

2: Encyclopedia Malfador (Search under Sticky: Important SEIV Information & stuff )
Here is the link to the index, it has an entry about moons.
http://www.invirtuo.cc/phpwiki/index...%20Malfadorica

Suicide Junkie · #5 March 13th, 2003, 01:31 AM

Moons are simply small planets in the same sector as a larger one. There is no special in-game definition of a moon, but if you saw one, that's what you'd automatically call it