Having not spotted anything to the contrary I'm assuming that the starting positions will be at the default of "Further"...

XAPBob wrote on Mon, 06 April 2020 01:09

Having not spotted anything to the contrary I'm assuming that the starting positions will be at the default of "Further"...

Derp. I'm umming and ahhing between Further and Distant; does Distant tend to squish people up against the edge of the map?

EDIT: It seems to, so it'll be Further.

magic9mushroom wrote on Mon, 06 April 2020 02:53

XAPBob wrote on Mon, 06 April 2020 01:09

Having not spotted anything to the contrary I'm assuming that the starting positions will be at the default of "Further"...

Derp. I'm umming and ahhing between Further and Distant; does Distant tend to squish people up against the edge of the map?

EDIT: It seems to, so it'll be Further.

More importantly... The default isn't Further, it's Moderate.... Or does it depend on other things in the stars installation/settings chosen before hitting the new game wizard?

5-6: Small Dense
7-8: Medium Sparse
9-10: Medium Normal
11-12: Medium Dense
13-14: Large Sparse
15-16: Large Normal

Intriguing. I will consider joining.
One question though. I like your one winner, avoid helping others win, just help each other stopping the monster philosophy, but what about tech trading then? Is it allowed or not? If it is allowed, it would greatly help those seeking out early "alliances". And is it a com or no-com game?
I think I would prefer a non-com no tech trade game myself due to the less time involved, but then again I have not decided to join yet and all the other people have perhaps a lot of self isolating time on their hands and want to bring on the full diplomacy

platon79 wrote on Thu, 09 April 2020 12:46

Intriguing. I will consider joining.
One question though. I like your one winner, avoid helping others win, just help each other stopping the monster philosophy, but what about tech trading then? Is it allowed or not? If it is allowed, it would greatly help those seeking out early "alliances". And is it a com or no-com game?
I think I would prefer a non-com no tech trade game myself due to the less time involved, but then again I have not decided to join yet and all the other people have perhaps a lot of self isolating time on their hands and want to bring on the full diplomacy

Anything that's not explicitly prohibited is permitted. So, tech trade all you want and if you want to communicate with others - go for it. If you don't want to communicate with others, just tell everyone who approaches you to take a hike

Intriguing. I will consider joining.
One question though. I like your one winner, avoid helping others win, just help each other stopping the monster philosophy, but what about tech trading then? Is it allowed or not? If it is allowed, it would greatly help those seeking out early "alliances". And is it a com or no-com game?
I think I would prefer a non-com no tech trade game myself due to the less time involved, but then again I have not decided to join yet and all the other people have perhaps a lot of self isolating time on their hands and want to bring on the full diplomacy

With 12 players declared we are looking at...

Quote:

5-6: Small Dense
7-8: Medium Sparse
9-10: Medium Normal
11-12: Medium Dense
13-14: Large Sparse
15-16: Large Normal

Medium dense.
The jump to Large Sparse is quite significant in terms of design.

XAPBob wrote on Thu, 09 April 2020 04:50

With 12 players declared we are looking at...

Quote:

5-6: Small Dense
7-8: Medium Sparse
9-10: Medium Normal
11-12: Medium Dense
13-14: Large Sparse
15-16: Large Normal

Medium dense.
The jump to Large Sparse is quite significant in terms of design.

Could there be a cutoff for new players, and then a few days to get a final design in? A design for dense might not work in a sparse. I would like to know the final size before I submit my final race (not that I have submitted yet... but I thought I was ready to...)

Raindancer

With players trickling in at the rate they are it's quite probable we'll be locked to Large Normal significantly before the 20th, but if not I'll allow a few more days to finalise races.

magic9mushroom wrote on Sat, 11 April 2020 05:56

With players trickling in at the rate they are it's quite probable we'll be locked to Large Normal significantly before the 20th, but if not I'll allow a few more days to finalise races.

This whole "oh no my super-optimized race design is the wrong one for this universe!" problem is best avoided by having a generally good design that will do well in almost any map.

Not all themes work well in every universe.

Raindancer wrote on Mon, 13 April 2020 06:29

Not all themes work well in every universe.

Need to be careful with those. Some themes do significantly better when there are no other players involved

And others, like that of the trickster, are quite useless without a victim.