Any newbies around?

[magnate]

Well, I found the FAQ also, but as I said in my first post, I couldn't make head nor tail of it. Now I've put in a few tens of hours of play it makes more sense - but it's definitely written for the "newbie who knows the game but not the strategies" rather than for the total noob!

Anyway, I think I'm going to win my first game, and it's been fun exploring the tech tree etc. (I deliberately switched off See Full Tree). I have a few questions but the only key one for now is:

How do I start my next game with NO tech? I chose a "low tech" start this time, and still had a smattering of techs everywhere. This time I want to start with the absolute minimum. Is there a way to do this? What about the pile of RPs you start with - can I change that? Similarly, is there a way to start your home planet with fewer facilities and stuff? This might sound like madness to some of you but I like building up myself, how I want to. I don't like being presented with a ready-made planet with all the facilities built.

(I realise I've got to start with something, even if it's just Research Centre I, otherwise I can't research even rock colonisation etc. But I would like to start with the minimum possible.)

Thanks in advance - only about five years until I'm ready to take you all on multiplayer .....

CC

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Your homeplanet is automatically filled up; the only thing you can do is start with a smaller homeplanet. As for the other, go into data\TechArea.txt and mod all the start levels to 0.

[Ragnarok]

Low tech level is the most minimum tech you can get in the stock game. As Narf pointed out you can mod the files to change this but if you mod you should create a mod folder and copy the data folder from the stock game into that and mod those. It is never good to modify stock data files.

[Ruatha]

magnate said:
Well, I found the FAQ also, but as I said in my first post, I couldn't make head nor tail of it.

I wasn't referring to the

magnate said:
"classic threads" forum

but the faq on this page.

[Fyron]

With the FAQ, you can use your browser's search function to search for an item you need info on. Reading the entire thing is definitely not a good idea... Way too much information at once!