XyliGUN wrote on Thu, 03 March 2011 17:59

2. Perfect World - this one have one special tuning - all the planets updated to have exactly the same original habs, let's say it's values are 20% percent from the right for each hab. All players know this value before they start designing a race. So, any planet in that game will be 100% for all palyers. This is one of small number of games where CA will be allowed and CA with TT is also welcome for this game. This could be a solo or team game with some sort of remapping.

I believe this one has already been mooted under the name "Heavenly Hell".

It should be a bloodbath. Everyone minimises their hab settings and maximises their growth and production and try to beat everyone else to the same planets.

If the habs are maximally right-shifted the RW points are maximised too.

Since evryone wants the same planets, looks like all set to enemy makes sense too.

If you set it to max mins too, then I guess it it becomes all about race design, neighbours and location and how (aggressively) you play. If the planets are evenly distributed and HW's are placed so that everyone, as much as is possible in a rectangular universe, gets the same access to planets then location becomes less important.


-XX-
X--X
X--X
-XX-

With the X's marking clumps of stars, does this make for a fair set up in terms of location?

Centaurian.

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XyliGUN wrote

if you change their ID in m file (this is what Pauls' tool does), but left their location in file (this is what it doesn't), then Stars! cannot correctly load such m file. This could be fixed, by additional editing of m file after swapping.

ma.stars wrote

Just the m? Not the h or the hst?

To fix this specific issue with secondary world you only need to edit m file, but surely to move/swap hw or secondary worlds you have to modify both m and hst files.

ma.stars wrote

Do you think you could build an easy-to-use fool-proof HW-remapper tool?

Well, I think I can try, but the problem is that I cannot publish that tool due to security concerns.

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OK, so after combining all ideas together, we have Perfect Squad World team game (planets mapped to grid with minimum distance = 82ly), which should be played by 4 teams consists of predefined SS + PP (+ may be AR in case of teams of 3 players) races.

Questions:
1. Who wants to play this game?
2. Who can host this game (I could be co-host/observer and will help with the game setup)?
3. Any ideas of race designs?

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XyliGUN wrote on Thu, 21 April 2011 17:35

the problem is that I cannot publish that tool due to security concerns.

Well, it shouldn't be any worse than already existing planet-editing tools.

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XyliGUN wrote on Thu, 21 April 2011 21:19

OK, so after combining all ideas together, we have Perfect Squad World team game (planets mapped to grid with minimum distance = 82ly), which should be played by 4 teams consists of predefined SS + PP (+ may be AR in case of teams of 3 players) races. Questions: 1. Who wants to play this game? 2. Who can host this game (I could be co-host/observer and will help with the game setup)? 3. Any ideas of race designs?

Why make it a team game?
It should be all enemies, no diplomacy

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nmid wrote

Why make it a team game? It should be all enemies, no diplomacy

Well, the idea was to have SS and PP in one game, but yes this could be a non-team game with all played by SS (personally I think that team games are more fun, but it's just imho).

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I think I overwrote the files that caused this to happen. I have tried several regens and can't get it to do it again.
Perhaps it was one little thing I did different the first time that caused it to happen.

[Updated on: Thu, 21 April 2011 18:38]

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[Updated on: Thu, 21 April 2011 20:36]

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