A puzzlement ...

[Elowan]

Originally posted by oleg:
Elowan, adopt the following procedure:
When you start a new game, click on empire settings first, set it to 3K and then return to player menu and load your empire. What's a big deal about loading your empire first and foremost ? And how often to you start new games anyway ? Typical SE IV against AI should Last few days I think.

Actually - what you suggested is what I do. I play a lot of games so as to get a handle on what works and what doesn't. Call it SEIV Training Camp.

I think I'm sorry I started this thread.

[ August 19, 2002, 21:57: Message edited by: Elowan ]

[geoschmo]

So Elowan, if you are setting up a game and you load an empire that is using 2000 points for player one, and you load an empire that uses 3000 points for player two, do you want it to throw out the empire you just selected for player one? Or are you going to have that empire play at a disadvantage since player two and all the randomly assigned empires are based on 3000 points?

Geoschmo

[Elowan]

Arrrrrgggghh!

Forget I said anything!
Mildred! Erase that tape immediately!
Yessir!

[geoschmo]

You can't simply stop the discussion because you were incapable of making your points.

So you see your solution, while ideal for your circumstance perhaps, would make it VERY complicated for people setting up multiplyer games. You may have a valid point that there is a problem, but your solution is not a good one.

However adding a settings.txt file entry would be a good solution for your problem, and also not cause undue stress on those people setting up their multiplayer games.

On that we can agree.

Geoschmo

[ August 19, 2002, 22:15: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[Elowan]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
You can't simply stop the discussion because you were incapable of making your points.

I think I made my point(s) well enough. What I hadn't totally considered was multi-player but then a setting under Game Mechanics or some such would allow the moderator to set the conditions. In which case the game would/would not allow loading emps that were above or below the conditions set.

[oleg]

How it can be that your only Amonkarie .emp file is for 3K ? If you use TDM, all (almost) races come with 2k, 3k and 5k .emp files. What I usually do, is to create a sub-folder in Empires folder and dump all excessive .emp files into it. Thus, when I set up a new game I have aonly few files to pick up.

P.S. It is _very_ unwise to ask to forget about your thread. It works as honey for all us flies buzzing around the forum. Next thing you will notice is 100+ Posts completely unrelated to subject !

[Elowan]

Originally posted by oleg:
How it can be that your only Amonkarie .emp file is for 3K ? If you use TDM, all (almost) races come with 2k, 3k and 5k .emp files. What I usually do, is to create a sub-folder in Empires folder and dump all excessive .emp files into it. Thus, when I set up a new game I have aonly few files to pick up.

P.S. It is _very_ unwise to ask to forget about your thread. It works as honey for all us flies buzzing around the forum. Next thing you will notice is 100+ Posts completely unrelated to subject !

Firstly - I'm not playing any of the available mods - not yet in any event.

As for the latter - da, ya znyu. Adnaka - nichievo!