does the "place empires evenly throughout galaxy" work?

[Slynky]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Does it work? No, absolutly not. Setting the option or not setting it makes no dif. Placement is practically random.

See? Geo is nice. Full of explanations. But I can answer your question easily:

NO

[Andrés]

Most quadrants aren´t even to begin with.

[Krsqk]

Does it evenly space empires, but not across the quadrant?

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Krsqk:
Does it evenly space empires, but not across the quadrant?

No. I have seen it stick five empires together on one half of the quad with one or two systems between and stick the Last empire by themself 8 systems away from anyone else.

It just flat doesn't work at all.

Geoschmo

[deccan]

I have to say that this is a really big problem.

I just quit playing my first single-player TDM because of this. I've heard good things about the TDM AIs, particularly the United Flora and the Rage, so I made sure that they were in my game. However, as it turned out, I started out at the very eastern end of the map and had taken control of over a dozen systems before I met the first AI. I was far and away the leading player throughout the entire game.

I took control of some of the AIs to see what they were up to and discovered that they were all bunched together. The Rage had started in a system with two warp points, with a Neutral on one side, and another AI empire on the other, and had gotten nowhere (DUC 3 when I had PPB 5 ).

I've just started a second TDM game, and this time I've started with two neighbors very close to me, and things are much more interesting and challenging.

[oleg]

Yeah, I hate it too. I like to play Proportions or AIC with many AIs. But given the insane starting pace of bonused AI, I prefer to have some buffer spece for long entertaining games. Unfortunately, that means low number of AIs

May be i should generate map, place starting positions manualy and load it ? But that will reduce the joy of exploration

[Nocturnal]

Hehe, in my current game I started in the same system with the Rage and blockaded their homeworld immediately, then researched troops and took them over with minimal fuss. Poor things are my servants now. But my highest-population world is an airless Rage world.