A question,

How wide is the player starting cluster with the 30 planets. How many planets will be in 1year or 2 year jump.

How far are the clusters of each player. We know 300 lj to the center cluster, but are the other players closer ?

How dense is the centeral cluster with planets.

Some more questions,

- why no handicap for IS, as this settings gives them an advantage and also they are mostly the strongest race you can play at the moment.

-Joat can not take NAS. This is a basic setting, but I still don't like it as it takes away a lot of options.Change it to
The player has to left the points over he gets from it. Its easy to check as you have only to remove it in the race file and the race-wizard has to show 0 or more.. not -1 or lower
They only never fixed the free points Joats gets from NAS.

Again a game with HE banned

But an all enemy game is nice.

Put me on the list.

@Robert wb

ccmaster wrote on Sun, 06 December 2020 10:31

A question,

How wide is the player starting cluster with the 30 planets. How many planets will be in 1year or 2 year jump.

How far are the clusters of each player. We know 300 lj to the center cluster, but are the other players closer ?

How dense is the centeral cluster with planets.

First of all, I'd like to correct a number. I originally stated that the HW-clusters will have 25 planets (not 30). However, I'm going to modifiy this slightly: Each cluster will have between 20 and 25 planets. This is mainly to make things a little easier for Victor, who will have to do a whole lot of moving planets around anyway. But once he has decided on a number, all HW-clusters will have the same number of planets.

The HW-clusters will have a diameter of 300 LYs +/- 15%. Distance of planets within the cluster to the HW will be determined by chance. You might have several near to the HW, you might have only a few. Just as in normal games.

The distance to your two neighbours is determined by geometry. In my testbeds, it was about 800 LYs to each neigbouring cluster.

The central cluster will have a diameter of about 1100 LYs. In a game with 6 players, it will contain about 200 - 240 planets. The densitiy is a matter of maths: 550^2*pi/number of planets. The average distance between planets should be 60 to 70 LYs. However, as this is an average, expect distances from very close to very far. In my testbeds I have seen anything from 15 LYs to 200+ LYs to the next planet.

Before the game starts, there will be another sample universe closely resembling the one we will actually play in.

Hi,

Hope there are not only no handicap for IS as the persone who set up the game want so play them

HE is mostly banned with this setting. Only 3 i would be playable, bit this will not work in the setting.

Can we please play without Random events. By this setup it would be a real balance breaker to get a WH to the center.

Ccmaster

We have eight players! I'm willing to start the game.

If you are one of those eight, please let Victor have your race file by next week. Please do not password it, that makes setting up the universe a lot easier. Victor will do a preliminary check to see if the restrictions in regard to PRTs and SRTs have been complied with.

I will post a sample universe for eight players later today.

Cheers,

Matt

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AR - will be slightly favored: No "Kill Starbase" orders against AR races (they are legitimate against other PRTs). ARs may build up to 5 colonizers without colonizing module up to the year 2420.
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If in doubt, please follow the spirit of these rules rather than the letter!

Hi ccmaster!

Thanks!

I'm collecting these questions and matters to be clarified. There will be a separate post when the game starts in which they will all be discussed.

@ all: If anything else comes to mind, please let me know...

Cheers,

Matt

If it's not too late, I'd like to play as well. Just sent my file to Victor.

Ludi Magister wrote on Fri, 11 December 2020 10:46

Hi ccmaster!

Thanks!

I'm collecting these questions and matters to be clarified. There will be a separate post when the game starts in which they will all be discussed.

@ all: If anything else comes to mind, please let me know...

Cheers,

Matt

Hi ,

why wait ? Point it out and all can make there tests with updated rules.

ccmaster