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ardonquen -> Questions from a new player regarding difficulty and performance! (11/9/2013 3:45:35 PM)
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Hi!
I'm new to the game and I have a couple of questions. I've been reading these forums and replaying the tutorials for a while, and feel just about ready to start my first game!
First of all, what difficulty should I start with? What does difficulty even change? I want to play a game in the largest size galaxy with as many AI players as possible (restless aggression), all the storylines active and generally just lots and lots of stuff going on! I'll be playing as a human empire in 'Shadows' mode. Is it a better idea to set home system quality to 'excellent' rather than turn the difficulty down to easy? Or would it be a better idea to have them at 'easy', but a tech level above me so they have warp drives and I don't, so I have to get all Zefram Cochrane on their asses? :P Also note that I'll only have a few of the friendlier races set to 'nearby', and pirates set to many/average distance/weak/no respawn. Also with automation, the AI will only be suggesting things and will not get a say in research, ship design, fleet management or diplomacy.
Um, I guess what I'm asking is if it's a better idea to make it easier for myself by giving myself better starting conditions, friendlier neighbors and more room to expand instead of handicapping the AI.
The major problem I have with any game like this is that the early game is so stressful, but after a certain point I just start steamrolling everybody and it becomes boring. I notice there's scalable difficulty but... I dunno if that'd work out well for me. If you need some sort of yardstick, I play Civ 5 on 'Prince' and Sins of a Solar Empire on 'hard' if it's a large map, and 'normal' if it's more cramped. So I'm quite experienced with these games, just... not very good at them.
Also, what's the performance like late-game? Stardrive was kind of ruined for me by being totally unplayable late-game. I have an AMD FX 6100 and 8GB of RAM, if that's helpful in determining the answer to this.
I get very little time to myself, so it's conceivable that this might be the only full game of this I get to play-- ever. So obviously I want to see all the stuff it has to offer with as few hiccups as possible.
Thanks for helping me!
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