6 factions = the biggest even game you can have will be 6 players
im playing a 9 player game now me and then the 4 factions - 2 of each allied. with the beta 3 or final game id like to play a game with teams locked involving all 6 factions but for the teams to be even - 12 player game (id be allied to one of them)
Is there any chance the engine can be edited to have a 12 player game please 2v2v2v2v2v2 because i only play even games. Why - a 10 player ffa with me as advent loyalist ,5 advent rebel and 4 tec loyalist would against the tec AI because mid/late game there is more likley to be a dominant advent rebel alliance that will defeat the tec ai because its combined flleet would be smaller.
All AI games i make the teams even to keep it fair If you play random players with displomacy turn on the game is simply no fun because if more of 1 faction spawn then quite often on large maps they will defeat the single faction before you even encounter them
Also for my background game (and for your balance testing now that i think of it) id love to be a 13th player and watch a even AI 2v2v2v2v2v2 play out on a even map with the same spread of planets to each faction- would be so kool to watch that war - Who do you think would win? - before i would have said Vasari but ever since TEC AI starting self destructing starbases the other AI's find it very difficult to get into their space late game