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Elowan · #1 August 20th, 2002, 04:08 AM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
That's what we have now and you are complaining so loudly about. LOL!

No - it's not what we have now. I see nothing in the opening screen from Quadrant down to Game Mechanics that remotely resembles a method of changing Racial Point Default.

The game auto-defaults to 2K RP's. If you try to load an EXISTING empire with more than 2K RP's you get a warning and have to set the Player Settings to 3K or whatever your race requires.

In Single Player - I'd like the game to respond to the fact that I'm trying to load an empire with more than the 2K default in RP's and reset the settings so that I don't have to.

If you're concerned about MP - let the moderator set the defaults (pw protected) so that only empires that equal or are less than the default can be loaded.

This would help the guy with the 2K RP empire to beef his guys up.

We now have to manually adjust the settings in SP games. That's a pain-in-the-*** and that's what I'm complaining about!

[ August 20, 2002, 03:17: Message edited by: Elowan ]

Suicide Junkie · #2 August 20th, 2002, 04:25 AM

Is it really that hard to just change the settings before loading or creating your races?

How many games per week are you starting?

Grandpa Kim · #3 August 20th, 2002, 05:00 AM

My goodness! Is this truly and issue?

Personally, I rather enjoy setting all those parameters, but then I only start a new game a couple times a month. In fact, though I use the same theme for my empire each game, I doubt you could find two that are totally identical. By making small variations I've found some wonderful little, hidden niches where you can get more bang for the buck. And, as I said, its fun, too!

Kim

Fyron · #4 August 20th, 2002, 05:08 AM

Is that the only setting that you change? Most of the times I start games, I (like most people) fiddle with most of the settings anyways.

[ August 20, 2002, 04:09: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Elowan · #5 August 20th, 2002, 07:06 AM

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Is it really that hard to just change the settings before loading or creating your races?

How many games per week are you starting?

It's an issue for me because I play a lot of games to a certain point to learn the game mechanics and test my changes.

Elowan · #6 August 20th, 2002, 07:08 AM

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Originally posted by Grandpakim:
My goodness! Is this truly and issue?
Kim

I never expected it to get out of hand. I'm done with it.

Q · #7 August 20th, 2002, 10:59 AM

Just to end this topic not on a frustrated mood

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If I now understood Elowan correctely, he wants to avoid to change the racial points settings each time to 3000 instead of the default setting of 2000. I don't believe it would be a good idea if the computer would correct this setting automatically according to the selected empire file.
But I agree it would be nice if you could save your favorite game setting as default. 3 starting planets instead of 1, large quadrant instead of small, medium starting tech level instead of low.....
That might be something to propose to MM. Or what to you think Elowan?