taltamir
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its clear what they do, just takes a little thinking to connect it to difficulty... only 2 of the sliders in the galaxy setup affect difficulty. Expansion and agression, the rest are more like "how you like things"... I think the only thing that confused me at first was what aggression actually does. and I didn't immediately realize that expansion is for other empires while size is only for myself (but when I got thinking about it, it became obvious) I am now trying a new game with expansion set to max (old), aggression to max (chaos), home system to worst (harsh), my size to worst (starting), and my tech to lowest (basic). random location since there are benefits AND drawbacks to each position. pirates to none since they annoy me and are actually easily manipulated to benefit me more then the AI, creatures to low since I don't like them. Research to slowest, independent life to teeming. human democracy.. mmm... odd... out of 4 tries, 2 of them resulted in the game being stuck in an infinite loop on generate galaxy under those settings. (1 CPU pegged at 100%, i let it run for minutes... it took mere seconds the other times)... I THINK it might be related to me alt tabbing WHILE it was generating the galaxy... not sure... as for difficulty. I started with 1 planet, a crappy one... I am in contacts with 10 civilizations which have the following amount of planets: 13, 17, 16, 16, 6, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6 they are so gonna kick my ass :) seeing as this is 1.0.4.4... harsh means I am losing 7k a year and my private sector is actually earing 1k a year... not as critical as it could have been... but I better improve it ASAP... All other civs have oodles of tech which is higher level then me... I am going to need every possible advantage!
< Message edited by taltamir -- 5/3/2010 2:16:57 PM >
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