Hi,
we were talking about the startingpositions in the chatroom, and we got some ideas:
a) well-balanced startingareas
It would be nice if there would be a new internal check for the mapgeneration, something like "every player must have 2 Stars and 50 planetpoints in a range of 20 parsec" these numbers are only examples. Doing this, the new games would be more well-balanced.
b) a complete new option for mapgeneration
While creating a new map, there could be a new option like "mapdesign" in this box, you could select the shape of the galaxy. There could be options like
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# -> random generated stars/planets
o -> startingarea
Everyone could select a form of the galaxy like he whants if he doesn't like the complete randomized generation, but doesn't whant to play the fixed szenarios.