Game map too small

Aussie Gamer · #1 February 13th, 2001, 02:24 AM

I have found that the game map is too small for three large empires to extist.
Also the chances of meeting someone in a med/ high game is too high.
Any thoughts??

Emperor Zodd · #2 February 13th, 2001, 04:38 AM

Change your settings to 255 systems.

Aussie Gamer · #3 February 13th, 2001, 07:08 AM

Thanks for that.
I am off to have a play with the text file.

Emperor Zodd · #4 February 13th, 2001, 08:30 AM

I use 250, there is a bug if you use 255.
The patch will fix it.

Tomgs · #5 February 13th, 2001, 10:37 AM

Also look in the mod section for a file with more system names in it. If you go over the default 150 systems you will find systems without names unless you add more names to that file.

Nyx · #6 February 13th, 2001, 05:43 PM

On the topic of modding galaxy maps, is there any way to tweak the routine used to decide where warp points connect to? Right now, they always connect to the nearest, and I'd like there to be at least some that connect farther away. Other than making such a galaxy myself and reusing it, is there a way to achieve such a thing?

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tictoc · #7 February 13th, 2001, 11:06 PM

Wow just think, you could end up inside someone's backyard. Conversly (did i speil that rite. Hehe) someone could politely knock on your door. Nice idea.

tic

Sinapus · #8 February 13th, 2001, 11:25 PM

If they had closed warp points like in Starfire, you could have something even nastier: a warp point you couldn't detect until you spotted ships coming through it.

(Okay, I was remembering what happened in the Alpha Centauri in the book In Death Ground by David Weber and Steve White.)

Anyway, did they fix the mapping system so you can use more than 100 systems in a cluster quadrant?

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Aussie Gamer · #9 February 14th, 2001, 12:02 AM

Thanks for the bug warning.
I was having problem with range check errors. I will change it to 250.
I add in "Alabama" text names to the system names to get to 300 names.

Tomgs · #10 February 14th, 2001, 04:03 AM

Sinapus the fix for the cluster quadrant is on the patch list.