Proportions Mod: Multiplayer anyone?

Cargus10 · #1 March 27th, 2002, 03:03 AM

Great! I'll be using the ConFed shipset (from PBW). I'll look for 1.6 eagerly!

I may have missed this in the long thread, but how many racial points will we have to spend?

PvK · #2 March 27th, 2002, 03:32 AM

3000 points.

PsychoTechFreak · #3 March 27th, 2002, 09:41 AM

PvK, could we reconsider the quadrant size ? This morning I have done a quick and dirty count with ancient race, medium based on 100 comes up with about 40 systems, 26 of them are just eye-candy, black-holes and so forth. If we are 10 or 11 players, this would be very tight in space. Maybe it should not be large, I propose medium based on 250 or similar.

PvK · #4 March 27th, 2002, 11:53 AM

Yes, although I think we'll use the new sidereal type as seen in 1.5.3 (just posted). It has far fewer planetless systems, although there are fewer planets per system. I think we may want to go with Large after all, because we have about ten players now.

PvK

Phoenix-D · #5 March 28th, 2002, 01:22 AM

"26 of them are just eye-candy, black-holes and so forth"

I'm thinking anythink that can kill your ships isn't eye-candy

And in some mods (this one as well I think) black holes are an early barrier to colonization because your colony ships are just too slow to get past them.

Phoenix-D

PvK · #6 March 28th, 2002, 01:43 AM

Yes. I also modded some more of the new systems to at least do some things. Some of the black holes are not only impassible by low-tech Proportions colony ships, the larger ones are even inescapable by them (they will be pulled inside).

PvK

PsychoTechFreak · #7 March 28th, 2002, 11:40 AM

Yes, yes, all right. I just thought about the 14 colonizable systems for 10 players. If your home system is surrounded by "eye-candy" you are screwed anyway in proportions.