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Yes. Very yes.

(unless you're playing the Arceans)

Oh, I dunno. Who is that, the Iconians, in the corner? They MIGHT have a chance, on Tough, if the rest of their cluster has OK planets.

The Terrans are toast, of course.

drrider

i'm playing the altarians waaaaay up in the corner...

well difficulty is only on tough... i was pretty much destroying painful in DL 18 mos ago, but that was 18 mos ago... trying to ease back into DA heh heh heh.

super organizer ability, +30 econ, +20 morale, +20 pq, +25 luck, +25 research, and +1 sensors. universalist party: +10 growth, +25 luck.

i'm gonna try and steamroll the humans, then pick a fight with the drengins and hope i can get the arceans to do my dirty work...

hopefully by the time i take out the drengins i'll have enough of a foothold to take out the arceans' better planets while their fringe worlds aren't running at 100%.


should be fun at least... i usually play a technoturtle strategy... focus on infrastructure and tech (while ferrying loaded transports into a dark corner of space) until i can build and unleash an untouchable fleet.

i do have influence victory and surrenders turned on, so if the drengin surrender to the arceans i'll pretty much be fubar.

I recently had a game with similar starting conditions. I was Thalans(no secondary planet) Blocked in a corner of a small map by three civs. I turned it into a one planet challenge and actually held up pretty good till the Drengin exterminated another AI. Their newly enlarged empire was just outproducing me in every category. Finally after three and a half years they came after me. I fought to the bitter end and had a lot of fun doing it. I'd hold on to that map with a save if your not feeling like that kind of challenge right now and come back to it. It can be a lot of fun, even if you lose.

I wouldn't. I would proceed to research some life support tech, and move a colony ship or two down the right side of the map (the maps are tilted 45 degrees counter clockwise, so upper right side of the minimap). I would then use that location as something of a foward base of operations, using it to make colony ships and stuff. While I wait for my colony ships to setup shop, I would make a few explorer ships to explore the immediate area (there might be some resources near by).

My policy is, if I lose at a map, I reload from an earlier point and try to beat it again. If that fails, I'll do that again till I figure out how to win. That way, I should get better.

No. But I wouldn't waste time with the colony rush. Prepare your invasion fleets now.

Good luck.
- Wyndstar

I wouldn't ctrl+n because it's too buggy

But I wouldn't like that map to start regardless of which empire I was playing because the starting positions are highly unbalanced.

I'd also usually have more (4-5) AIs on that size map.

i disagree, its the random / unknown nature of the galaxy thats one of the best features of the game. not knowing what lies beyond makes the beginning of the game so addicting. Not to say that a map editor is wrong by any means, but if this player wanted a random map, as I would, the editor wouldnt have helped.


Well we all know that cnrl-n causes changes in the settings of the AI intelligence, so i wouldn't use that. Its just as quick to run through the screens again to make a new start.

Personally i would have to restart that. but thats because my game time is so limited that i dont have the luxury of playing that set up. it does look interesting though. especially if it forces you to play a different way than you're used to.

Im one of those players who play to build my empire until im ready to completely overwhelm my opponents. On this galaxy that wouldn't be possible. i'd HAVE to go military early on.

Good luck.