Has the Sector Limit Been Increased?

raynor · #1 March 2nd, 2001, 10:12 AM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
No flame, but I am currently playing a game with 254 systems. I just wanted to kown if I could punch that number up and not worry about RCE's.

Save the map and post it. I'll count the star systems.

It isn't enough to change the settings file because the game chooses a random number of stars.

Thanks for not flaming.

Atrocities · #2 March 2nd, 2001, 10:59 AM

Here ya go. Let me know how the count turns out.

And your most welcome.

Atrocities · #3 March 2nd, 2001, 11:00 AM

Oops. sorry about that, try this zipped copy instead.

raynor · #4 March 2nd, 2001, 11:23 AM

Thanks. 212 systems and not a black hole in any of them. I guess you are using some custom files to get rid of the black holes? I wonder if that helps explain why I'm not getting more than 100 systems?

I re-installed the game, and that took care of the problem. Not surprising considering how many different things I've tweaked in the data files testing stuff out. Thanks!

[This message has been edited by raynor (edited 02 March 2001).]

Puke · #5 March 2nd, 2001, 11:27 AM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
So we can not have more than 255 systems per game? Hum, I hope in time, that number gets increased to 350 or so.

man, is there anyone out there who has not hands-down won the game and surpassed every AI by the time they colonize the first hundred systems? does anyone play multiplayer with over 200 systems and less than 20 people, or worse than a 10:1 ratio? I think even 200 is excessive, even with max AI I have a long time to expand before I run into anyone, and by the time I do, they are overpowered. the only arguement I can really see for that many systems (besides the obligitory "i had to try it, cause its cool") is if someone wanted to do the 'neutral challenge' on a huge map to let the AI (hopefully) build up massive empires over 500-1000 turns.

Atrocities · #6 March 2nd, 2001, 11:38 AM

Nope, no custom systems. And ya, I do have black holes in this game. I just lost a ship to one.

Center Mass. Look around, there there.

And a game with 200 plus systems is not about whooping it up with the AI, its about exploration and the undiscovered country. I love exploring and slowly building up my empire. Hell, the Last game I played, the AI (EA) player had just as large if not larger empire than I did, and it kicked my butt all the way back to my core systems before I started blowing up starts to stop there advance. I then spent the next 16 hours of game play slowly out manuvering them until I had them boxed into 50 systems. One by one, I entered each system and took there planets. Shutting off the WP's as I did it. I eventually asked them to surrendar, and they did. END GAME. That game took over 30 hours to play.

Nitram Draw · #7 March 3rd, 2001, 02:08 AM

I noticed if I set my max systems to 255 the medium quadrant is about the same size as the original settings but a large has a tremendous amount of systems. I found the best size quadrant for me to be about 150 systems but sometimes I want to play in a huge quadrant. Could I create an intermediate size quadrant? How would I do it?
Thanks