A puzzlement ...

[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!

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Elowan:
[QBWhat 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.[/QB]

That's what we have now and you are complaining so loudly about. LOL!

[Elowan]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Just to end this topic not on a frustrated mood :
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?

[Elowan]

Originally posted by Q:
Just to end this topic not on a frustrated mood : 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?

Yes - that would solve the 'problem' quite nicely. A small addition to Game Mechanics or similar would do the trick.

Originally posted by geoschmo:
What we have been proposing to MM for a while would be a way to start game via a script in a text file. You could type in RP=3000, and P1=Dominion.emp, and whatever else you wanted different than the normal defaults. Then hit Quick start, or better yet be able to start the game from the command prompt by calling for this text file. If we could get that added we could have automatic setup/starts on PBW. The game owner wouldn't have to set up and upload the first turn at all.

That would give Elowan what he wants. Short of that I think a settings.txt entry to change the default would be extremely simple and use the exsisting code almost entirely. A "remember Last settings" would be neat, although it would require some more heavy changes I would guess. Perhaps less than our load script idea though.

Geoschmo

I wouldn't be adverse to the script thingy. But I don't quite get where I would alter the Settings.txt file - add a new item?

[ August 20, 2002, 15:05: Message edited by: Elowan ]