Enormous Games?

[Tuchuk]

I am reading a post about what seems to be an enormous game. I have been playing SE4 a bit now. The biggest map seems to be the Large and it does not come anywhere close to this number of systems. What am I missing here? How can a map support this many systems and colonies?

This is a part of the post.......

"1 surrender 60 systems 155 colonies
1 surrender 89 systems 250 colonies
2 surrenders 111 systems 355 colonies
1 surrender - a big one (blockades) 133 systems 461 colonies
1 surrender - a big one (blockades) 148 systems 604 colonies population 80.7 billion

[capnq]

It's possible to edit the data files so that a "Large" quadrant can have a maximum of 255 systems. (256+ causes a fatal error.)

You've obviously been reading one of LCC's threads. He's put a lot of work into generating incredibly dense maps; there was a thread where he explained the procedure he uses to build them.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Atrocities]

If you want to play with 255 systems, you will need to edit the SETTINGS from 100 to 255. Its really easy too do.

quote:

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================================================== =====================================
GAME SETTINGS DATA FILE
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Maximum Number Of Systems:
Number of Systems the galaxy can contain. The maximum value for this
setting is 255.

================================================== =====================================
*BEGIN*
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Allow CD Music := TRUE
Maximum Number Of Systems := 254

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"We've made too many compromises already, too many retreats! They invade our space and we fall back -- they assimilate entire worlds and we fall back! Not again! The line must be drawn here -- this far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!" -- Captain Picard STNG
New Age Ship Yards



[This message has been edited by Atrocities (edited 27 July 2001).]

[Tuchuk]

Thank you all for the information. This is very helpful.

[PsychoTechFreak]

Don't forget to change the systemNames.txt file also, I think the original just provides about 100 names, with this you will get lots of noname systems.

You'll find extended name files in the MOD forums.