Challenge Match

geoschmo · #1 April 29th, 2003, 07:36 PM

It's easier for Gryphin to just reorder the map starting positions or make a new map entirely then for me to withdraw and rejoin.

And I don't think anyone should or needs to be changing their empires. Gryphin can just restart the game using the exsisting empire files we've already uploaded.

Geoschmo

[ April 29, 2003, 18:37: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Slynky · #2 April 29th, 2003, 07:43 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
It's easier for Gryphin to just reorder the map starting positions or make a new map entirely then for me to withdraw and rejoin.

And I don't think anyone should or needs to be changing their empires. Gryphin can just restart the game using the exsisting empire files we've already uploaded.

Geoschmo

That's fine if it works that way. And, in this matter, I show (more of) my ignorance. You see, I'm worried that all you can do is specify that a particular system is a starting place for an empire. And that SE4 will just grab the empires and put them in any of the designated places without regard to what team they are on.

NOW,IF a person can specify that a particular system is a homeworld position AND that it should be used for a particular empire or team, then obviously the map can be adjusted and no one needs to leave the game and return. BUT, is that the way it works? I'm only asking because I don't know and just assumed all one could do was mark a system as a starting location.

[ April 29, 2003, 18:45: Message edited by: Slynky ]

Gryphin · #3 April 29th, 2003, 07:44 PM

Yipes! I'll have Pooh Star help me track it though I was sure I did it right.

No later than 6:30 tonight.

geoschmo · #4 April 29th, 2003, 07:58 PM

The map editor allows you to do either. You can mark a system as a "common" starting point, meaning anyone can start there. Those show up in the map editor as boxes with the word any in them. Or you can set it as a "specfic" starting point. In that case you specify the player number for each starting point. In this case Gryphin should be setting specfic starting points. 1, 3, and 4 on one side of the map, and 2, 5 and 6 on the other.

Geoschmo

Slynky · #5 April 29th, 2003, 08:03 PM

See? Told ya I was showing my ignorance! Well, that's pretty kewl. Yep, probably easier to just make some map modifications and adjust team/empire starting positions to put one team on the left side of the map and the other on the right side.

One more question: So, after designating a system as a starting position, does SE4 THEN decide it can split that person's worlds up among one, two, or three different systems? My starting position was in 2 systems and another person's was in 3 systems. So, what governs that?

geoschmo · #6 April 29th, 2003, 08:18 PM

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Originally posted by Slynky:
One more question: So, after designating a system as a starting position, does SE4 THEN decide it can split that person's worlds up among one, two, or three different systems? My starting position was in 2 systems and another person's was in 3 systems. So, what governs that?

That's a little fuzzy. It seems to me to be kind of random. You will have one Homeworld at the spot specified in the editor, but you can't specify additional homeworlds. Sometimes they'll be in different systems, sometiems all in one system. I don't know how it decides.

Geoschmo

Gryphin · #7 April 29th, 2003, 08:46 PM

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Posted by Slynky:
Yep, probably easier to just make some map modifications and adjust team/empire starting positions to put one team on the left side of the map and the other on the right side.

I tryed to suprise everyone by putting the teams across the top and bottom. There should have been at least 5 systems between the two teams. I can't wait to see the map.

I'll do left to right or would you like to try more systems.?