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Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

I'll often re-start the map a few times to get a good starting location. I love being at the "gate" to a whole dead-end arm, quickly securing it and then having it all to myself. Then having a huge meltdown when my defence pact buddy builds an outpost in the middle of it destroying my pretty borders!!!!!

There's a mod that allows for a true hyperlane only setting with no jump drives right? I love jump drives but once they spread your hyperlane map becomes meaningless. I really hope wiz does something cool with a movement re-think. I'd love someting like hyperlane default but with the ability to "enhance" lanes or build new ones. So within your empire you could have a chain of upgraded hyperlanes that make in-empire movement very quick, but then you slow down to regular hyperlane speeds in enemy/undeveloped territory.

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# ? Jun 10, 2024 06:39

turn off the TV: Aug 4, 2010; moderately annoying

Baronjutter posted:

I find .25 planets is still a good amount, I'd love to play on bigger maps but just with more "empty" space. How do you do 5% ? Custom map mod?

You just need to edit a single file.

under map\setup_scenarios there's a list of the different galaxy sizes, this is what my 100 star galaxy looks like:

code:

setup_scenario = {
	name = "huge"
	priority = 4					#priority decides in which order the scenarios are listed
	num_stars = 1000
	radius = 450					#should be less than 500, preferably less than ~460
	num_empires = { min = 0 max = 21 }	#limits player customization
	num_empire_default = 11
	fallen_empire_default = 4
	fallen_empire_max = 4
	advanced_empire_default = 4
	colonizable_planet_odds = 0.25
	primitive_odds = 1.0
	crisis_strength = 1.5
	
	cluster_count = {
		method = one_every_x_empire
		#method = constant
		value = 1
		max = 6
	}
	cluster_radius = 150
	cluster_distance_from_core = 300
	
	num_nebulas	= 10
	nebula_size = 60
	nebula_min_dist = 200
	
	supports_shape = elliptical
	supports_shape = spiral_2
	supports_shape = spiral_4
	supports_shape = ring
}

under map\galaxy there's a list of the different shapes, this is what my two arm spiral looks like:

code:

# SPIRAL WITH 2 ARMS

core_radius_perc = 0.20				# Core radius is 30% of the galaxy radius

arms = {
	tightness_winding = 1.1			# Tightness of winding
	width = 50.0					# Arm width in degrees
	fuzz = 65.0						# Maximum outliers distance from arms
	seperation = 180.0				# Separation (in degrees) between each arm	
}

# ? Oct 3, 2017 19:46

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# ? Oct 3, 2017 19:47

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Improbable Lobster posted:

Yeah, elliptical galaxies kinda suck since you're guaranteed to end up stuck and stagnating unless you're BFFs with everyone.

Now this is untrue, I had the opposite happen to me on several occasions. In spiral galaxies I'd suddenly end up wedged in between two powers with no way out, in elliptical galaxies it was always possible for me to slip around their borders and wreak havoc.

# ? Oct 3, 2017 19:49

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

Libluini posted:

Now this is untrue, I had the opposite happen to me on several occasions. In spiral galaxies I'd suddenly end up wedged in between two powers with no way out, in elliptical galaxies it was always possible for me to slip around their borders and wreak havoc.

See, I've never had that happen in a spiral but I've had plenty of unfriendly empires expand up and down before I can slip through.

# ? Oct 3, 2017 19:51

Magil Zeal: Nov 24, 2008

THE loving MOON posted:

I tried doing that once and while it pretty much guarantees that's you're not gonna have a game cut short by getting boxed in somewhere, I really like working around the weird poo poo you get in a mostly random start. Advanced starts are pretty annoying though

Different strokes and all that. I usually don't even like to consider anything other than expansion/economy-building until I have a good 8-10 planets colonized. I almost always go Expansion + Prosperity to those ends as well, though I'm thinking of changing it up with a "taller" build on my next playthrough (I skipped habitats in my current machine empire playthrough because I had plenty of size 13-15 worlds sitting around not colonized yet, didn't see a point to getting habitats).

# ? Oct 3, 2017 19:59

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hobbesmaster posted:

Can you not selectively purge a subspecies?

You cannot, believe it or not

e; Idea. To make food more useful/important, what if you needed it to terraform and build ringworld segments? I mean biomass is kind of central to those procedures, so...

e2; Or to ensure you don't starve, just an edict where excess food stops giving pop growth while active and instead reduces terraforming/ringworld build times.

Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Oct 3, 2017

# ? Oct 3, 2017 20:05

turn off the TV: Aug 4, 2010; moderately annoying

Obviously the solution is to move them to their own plant, grant them independence, declare war on them, then bomb them from orbit until they die.

# ? Oct 3, 2017 20:17

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Magil Zeal posted:

I got some roach refugees

Hope they enjoy being bio-trophies

So I guess the AI uplifted them and then exiled them? Kinda funny.

Prolly wont have gone the exact same way, but this happened to me, only I got something like four kinds of uplifted refugee. Finally clicked on to what was happening when I realised they were all fleeing a devourer hivemind who had just overrun the AI empire who spent most of the game uplifting presentients instead of building fleets.

# ? Oct 3, 2017 20:24

Strudel Man: May 19, 2003; ROME DID NOT HAVE ROBOTS, FUCKWIT

turn off the TV posted:

Obviously the solution is to move them to their own plant, grant them independence, declare war on them, then bomb them from orbit until they die.

Last I heard, you can't kill the last pop on a planet by bombardment.

Now, I suppose if you move in a bunch of regular humans with them, and you're lucky in which ones get killed by the bombing...

# ? Oct 3, 2017 20:30

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

I wish destroyed enclaves had a chance of becoming refugees and you could pay to help them set up in your territory. Nearly every game I've played has had nearly every enclave eliminated by mid-game due to purifiers or swarms or space monsters destroying them. They could pick the empire they had the best relationship with and you'd get a little event where you could pay a ton of energy and minerals to help them set up a new station.

Also, is there any way to console command or save edit a new enclave ? It's really awful playing "tall" without a trader around.

# ? Oct 3, 2017 20:45

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

Mister Adequate posted:

Alright, how do I deal with these self-modified fuckos who think they're too good to be genemodded back in line? Because right now the only thing I can think of is make their planet a vassal, then de-vassalize them, then attack and bombard them from orbit until they die by chance.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm absolutely willing to do that, but I'm hoping there's a solution that would be quicker to achieve.

You can research the technology to change climate preference.

# ? Oct 3, 2017 20:48

Strudel Man: May 19, 2003; ROME DID NOT HAVE ROBOTS, FUCKWIT

OwlFancier posted:

You can research the technology to change climate preference.

You can't genemod self-modified pops, full stop.

# ? Oct 3, 2017 20:54

OwlFancier: Aug 22, 2013

THE loving MOON posted:

What map types do y'all like? I pretty much always go for huge 4 arm spiral and just go until something completely stops me from going any further or I look around and realize nothing can stop me.

2 arm spiral hyperlanes only creates a nice mix of islands of planets with occasional bridges between and chokepoints on the arms.

Honestly more mapgen options like clusters linked by strings of worlds and long hyperlanes would be nice.

Strudel Man posted:

You can't genemod self-modified pops, full stop.

The hell sense does that make?

# ? Oct 3, 2017 20:55

Strudel Man: May 19, 2003; ROME DID NOT HAVE ROBOTS, FUCKWIT

OwlFancier posted:

The hell sense does that make?

Little to none!

# ? Oct 3, 2017 20:56

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Strudel Man posted:

Last I heard, you can't kill the last pop on a planet by bombardment.

Now, I suppose if you move in a bunch of regular humans with them, and you're lucky in which ones get killed by the bombing...

This is what the glassing mod is for. A+++ would perform atrocities again.

# ? Oct 3, 2017 20:56

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