Home Planet in a black hole system

Possum · #1 February 8th, 2001, 03:47 AM

Geo, nope, this is a dead-stock v119 game.

HOWEVER, the galaxy type is "Ancient". Perhaps you're not used to playing with those? They always look like that, it's a very tired old galaxy, with resources and real estate at a real premium. I enjoy the desperate small-scale games that result

geoschmo · #2 February 8th, 2001, 04:12 AM

Your right, I've never played an ancient quad. I knew they were sparse, but sheesh.

I'll have to give that a try sometime.

Drake · #3 February 8th, 2001, 05:54 AM

Yeah Geo, you should give it a try. Hey, for a real challenge, only use ancient quadrants for the contest. C'mon, you know you want to.

-Drake

Atrocities · #4 February 8th, 2001, 10:10 AM

No offense, but I have this phobia about downloading thing. It seems that my anti-virus thinks that what I just tried to download was a virus, and it quarantened it.

Is it a virus? Na, I think it was a saved game. Odd. Very odd. :\

Nyx · #5 February 8th, 2001, 10:00 PM

The downside of ancient galaxies is that the AI gets even weaker in them than in regular galaxies. You'll start seeing lots and lots of colony ships all by themselves wandering around trying to get to systems two and three times out of thier range. It's really sad.

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dmm · #6 February 9th, 2001, 10:00 PM

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Originally posted by Nyx:
The downside of ancient galaxies is that the AI gets even weaker in them than in regular galaxies. You'll start seeing lots and lots of colony ships all by themselves wandering around trying to get to systems two and three times out of thier range. It's really sad.

Have you tried any of the recently suggested fixes for this? There's a whole topic related to this, and several people claim to have come up with non-cheating mods that strengthen the AI a lot.