GasBandit
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Buddy, I had a pleasure pit to reconquer, I was busy. Don't you worry, I will attend to your comeuppance forthwith. The Intransigent will darken your skies before you know it.
[Informational] Blacknova Traders
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GasBandit
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I'm not upset since it's going to get wiped, but telling everybody where my stuff is is kind of a dick move.Ran into Gasbandit's monster defenses at 711 and got my ship destroyed.
Time to rebuild!
Now I'm going to have to increase those defenses even MORE. The Sovereignty of GasBandia must be defended from ne'er-do-wells.
GasBandit
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Whatever it is, it'll have purple rings around it!
I am getting this error too, but the first error is actually on line 919. Also, @Dave I'm not sure about 5000 nodes. We barely ran into each other with 1000. If you want to increase it, I wouldn't quintuple the size of the universe, given the small player base.
GasBandit
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I dunno. In a 1000 node universe, by the time I got my engines to level 15 or 18 or so (which didn't take long, obviously), every single sector was 1 turn from any other sector in realspace. Then it just becomes an easter egg hunt to see who finds whose home base/ship first.
I'm okay with increasing it, but not so sure that it should be by a factor of 5.
Works for me but it looks like an exact clone (links and all, except for Gaia) as the last universe. I found the same planets I captured last time right away.
GasBandit
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Were we also not supposed to start with genesis torpedos this time? Because I didn't start with one.
Not that it matters, I can already afford more than I can carry after the first batch of turns, so really I don't think we need to start with them. And they might confuse genuine newbies to the game, making them think they need to make a planet right away, when really supporting a planet is something you need to wait to do until after you're established and have an income going.
Not that it matters, I can already afford more than I can carry after the first batch of turns, so really I don't think we need to start with them. And they might confuse genuine newbies to the game, making them think they need to make a planet right away, when really supporting a planet is something you need to wait to do until after you're established and have an income going.
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Aha, that explains the disparity in turns taken a lot better.
Dave
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Well hold on to your horses, because it's going to get better...or worse?
I'm creating a spreadsheet that will randomize 2000 sectors and everything about them. Then I'm going to import this into the system (I have another game set up to test on, so don't worry!) so that each time we do this it's a new game with new warps, etc. Only thing staying the same is sectors 0 & 1.
Here's what the spread is doing a bit differently.
I'm creating a spreadsheet that will randomize 2000 sectors and everything about them. Then I'm going to import this into the system (I have another game set up to test on, so don't worry!) so that each time we do this it's a new game with new warps, etc. Only thing staying the same is sectors 0 & 1.
Here's what the spread is doing a bit differently.
- A sector's commodities will depend on what it is. If it's an organics sector it will have from 50,000,000 units of organics to 100,000,000 units. All other commodities will be at 10,000,000 - 20,000,000 units. This only makes sense. Right now no matter what kind of sector, they each have 100,000,000 units of everything.
- Types of sectors will also be randomized. Percentages are (and these are consistent with what they are now): Special (1%), Ore/Goods (15%), Organics/Energy (10%), & None (49%)
- Currently, only 10% of the sectors have planets. I'll be bumping this up considerably and making Genesis Torps more expensive, but I'm still going to start everyone with one. And this time I'll even do it.
Dave
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Question. Would you guys prefer me to continue to work on randomizing everything or would you rather me load the next iteration by the authors, which can be found here? It's more complex than BlackNova. Not sure if it randomizes after a reset, either.
Trying to check it out but the wiki there loads very slowly for me.[DOUBLEPOST=1388948539,1388948389][/DOUBLEPOST]Or...not at all. I can't learn anything about it right now, apparently.[DOUBLEPOST=1388948667][/DOUBLEPOST]Last update on the site was 2012?
Dave
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That's nothing new. BlackNova is the same way.
Well, I have no way to compare Blacknova to AAT since I can't see any pictures or read the wiki. I guess I vote go with what we know.
I like having an end-point, actually, so that there can be a sense of finality.
Dave
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What I envision is having a set time frame and at the end the winner is the person with the highest ranking. Everyone will know when the end is and if it's close and someone is ahead, people can get teams together and jump their shit. It'll also keep things new and make it so that new people don't get locked out and feel that they can't play.[DOUBLEPOST=1388951528,1388951481][/DOUBLEPOST]
I could do that as well, but I think that most people will play one or the other and I wonder if we have enough to sustain both.