skoormit wrote on Sat, 29 March 2014 04:44

Deadline for race submission is midnight the night of April 1st, SAH time.

Send those files to <my name> at gmail. Please mention your forum name and who your teammate is.

(My name is skoormit.)

That leads to two things that should be clarified.

Is that midnight the night between March 31st and April 1st, or is it midnight the night between April 1st and April 2nd ?

I assume you mean midnight GMT (also known as UTC), the time used on the game pages ? The forum pages display times in the clock the member chooses.

skoormit,

How will you distribute our HWs (spoke and hub, or ring)?

Also, will you remap the stars into a circle, so that no one gets a corner that is harder to contest?

When you host do you usually look at number of habitable worlds nearby or avg mineral conce in each player's neighbourhood?

"Midnight the night of" means the midnight after the date in question, as opposed to "midnight the morning of."

"SAH time" means the time according to the SAH site (which can be seen on any game page), not the time displayed on the forums (which, as you note, is adjusted to the user's preferred time zone).

I would prefer you take as long as you need

taking two weeks to gen

I would gen the medium dense uni and stretch to large size ...

neilhoward wrote on Sun, 30 March 2014 18:28

I would gen the medium dense uni and stretch to large size ...

Is this what you did to create the universe with DD5? It seemed like a medium universe to me that we played in. Why the stretch? Does it make moving worlds eaiser? I really didn't want to play in a large universe, but maybe I don't completely understand what you are doing here.

I really liked the universe you created for DD5, it was ideal for this game setup. There was no advantage on where you started.

I agree, placing the races in a pattern like in the image from DD5 seems a good way to distribute the races - With six spokes rather than five spokes, as there are six teams, of course. But teammate HWs should be closer to each other than to enemy HWs, preferably considerably closer.

And the universe should not be stretched, the races the players have set up for this game have surely been designed for the distance and stellar density announced in the game post, not the distances and stellar density seen in a medium universe stretched to large size.

Hi,
as I want to play the game like it was posted I have no interrest in stretch ring or anything else.
Gen a game move the HW's and let start !!
ccmaster

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I would prefer you take as long as you need

As soon as possible we should start the game. We are waiting quite long with this game.

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taking two weeks to gen

Er...i hoped to start in next 48hrs.

Because you only had 5 teams in DD5, I merely remapped the medium dense so that all stars were in a circle 1200ly diameter, which pushed the density up to 3.1 stars per 10.000ly^2. This was a convenience to maintain the same relative distances as if there were 6 teams. By stretching to large, we can have a circle slightly wider (1354) than the medium universe (1200), but giving us the same actual area and density.

Wormholes are likely to have one or both endpoints outside the circle some of the time.

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A medium dense universe has ~360 stars at a density of 2.5 stars per 10kly^2 (or 1 star per 40kly^2). To achieve that density a circle would need a diameter of ~677ly.

When I am still playing this game in seven months, I will appreciate the time and consideration put into the setup.

I think most of us had designed our races on the premise that this would be standard universe.

The idea of this circular one, fairer, but seems somewhat sterile. I haven't played in a custom universe like this before so maybe someone else can comment on how much it is worth doing this.

That said, I have no specific objections to the set-up described for my race, but if this involves one or more players redesigning their races, adopting a different whole-game strategy, and re-discussing tactics ... maybe it would be better to proceeded with a regular universe.