Proportions any good for single player?

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
I only play single player, and i only play Proportions....

Play with AI hard and low bonus. Then upgrade to medium bonus for the second game.
Small quadrant also helps the AI.

I'm thinking about re-starting with an small quadrant, no neutrals, AI hard, AI medium bonus, and 4 AI races
1-Drushocka
2-Krill
3-Jraenar
4-Xiati

I've heard the XiChung is the most agressive AI, but I don't like their shipset. The Amonkrie is also good, but I want to play with only 4 AI races so I don't have to scroll in the diplomacy screen.

How do you pick a specific number of AI enemies? I know you can put low, but how do you get 4, or 5 or whatever number you want?

[JLS]

Absolutely YES, Proportions may be the Best MOD in respectes to being user friendly; and I think you will find it very realistic as well.

In respects to multiplayer, we think Proportions plays very well, do to the fact you start with a Large Empire Storage, nice well balanced starting research and Resource production from the Home World; that is a much Larger starting income then most Mods and Base Space Empires.

John


[ March 25, 2003, 22:14: Message edited by: JLS ]

[Fyron]

Yes, but Proportions games take 100s and 100s of turns to play out. This is too many for general PBW use. It is fine with a small group of dedicated players, but takes too long when you just have a group of random players.

[JLS]

It plays great in LAN Play, with 3-4 human Players!

[ March 25, 2003, 22:10: Message edited by: JLS ]

[PvK]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
How do you pick a specific number of AI enemies? I know you can put low, but how do you get 4, or 5 or whatever number you want?

Select zero generated AI enemies. Then add the ones you want as players, and specify computer control for them.

PvK

[PvK]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, but Proportions games take 100s and 100s of turns to play out. This is too many for general PBW use. It is fine with a small group of dedicated players, but takes too long when you just have a group of random players.

That depends on how you set up the game, and what kind of a game you want.

If you expect to start with a single low-tech planet, and populate the entire quadrant and reserarch everything in the tech tree until it's no longer fun to play without wiping out everyone else, like in the unmodded game, then yeah that would be hard to do in the time span of a typical unmodded game. Of course.

If you want to have an intense war in a couple-hundred turns, use a small quadrant (or an edited maps where the homeworlds start out within a system or two of each other), and/or use multiple homeworlds per player.

Or, turn blitz/autorun for the first 150+ turns, then let the game start.

Etc.

PvK

[Fyron]

Originally posted by JLS:
It plays great in LAN Play, with 3-4 human Players!

LAN is wholely different from PBW. LAN games have lots of time at once to be played. PBW games typically have 1 turn per day (or every other day).

PvK:

That depends on how you set up the game, and what kind of a game you want.

Yes, it does.

In the unmodded game, I never wait until I have finished the tech tree before attacking other empires. Sitting around doing nothing for many turns in a row is not my idea of fun.

The game is about conflict, after all. Why would so much of what you do have to do with military strength if it weren't? In Proportions, it takes a long while before you can get enough forces to have meaningful conflicts (esp. when trying to attack HWs).

If you want to have an intense war in a couple-hundred turns

I would rather not have to wait a couple hundred turns before having an intense war.

Or, turn blitz/autorun for the first 150+ turns, then let the game start.

This is an option, yes. But, I would rather be in control of my empire for the entire game. I don't want to have to spend a lot of time fixing the problems the AIs caused.

[ March 25, 2003, 22:43: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]