PBW PvK Proportions Game #2

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Some folks have mentioned wanting to start a new (smaller quadrant than PBW PvK Proportions Game #1) game using Proportions Mod on PBW.

A few questions come to mind, so for those who are interested in participating, let me know here if you want to play, and let me know if you have an opinion about these:

1) Would you rather I start it right away using the current Version of the mod, or wait a week, by which time I may have had time to make a new Version of the mod?

2) Do you want to start from a single homeworld, or shall I let the AI or myself run the game for a number of turns to establish some colonies and infrastructure etc., to give things a head start?

3) What rate and time limits for turns do you prefer, or can you not keep up or put up with?

4) What are your suggestions for game setting, size, etc?

My suggestions for settings, are:

Starting resources: 20000
Starting planets: 1
Home planet value: Good
Score display: Own
Technology level: Low
Racial points: 3000
Quadrant type: Custom
Quadrant size: About 2.5 colonizable systems per player.
Event frequency: Medium
Event severity: High
Technology cost: Medium
Victory conditions: No set victory conditions. Decide what your empire wants to accomplish, and try to accomplish that.
Maximum units in space: 20000 (max)
Maximum ships in space: 20000 (max)
Computer players: None
Computer difficulty: High
Computer player bonus: Medium
Neutral empires: No
Other game settings:

All warp points connected

All player planets the same size.

All tech areas allowed.

"Evenly" distributed homeworlds.

No cheat codes.

Gifts and tributes ok.

No technology gifts (send a gift ship if you need to).

Surrender not allowed (subjugation ok).

Intel projects ok.

Ruins will exist. Note that most of them will be red herrings.

No strict limits on colonization.

No saving map during game.

Simultaneous movement.

The game will upgrade to use official MM patches as they appear, and minor Proportions patches as they appear.

Proportions patches that alter balance or introduce new elements to any great degree will be up to a vote by players whether we switch to them or not.

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