would you ctrl-n this?

well shoot, it appears i can't edit that post

Depends on your homeworld.

Yes. Very yes.

(unless you're playing the Arceans)

the map depends entirely on what kind of game you feel like playing at the time. I used CNTRL+N frequently just for that reason.

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

Maybe. It depends on your settings and your homeworld.

At least it looks like you'll get a few planets off the start, and then the plan would be to wipe out the humans.

Also with this sort of start, you can often get a good number of resources since your colony rush ends so fast. With any luck the terrans will be busy sending colony ships competing for planets on the other side while you crush them...

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.

ps - no bonus tiles to speak of yet, but i did grab an econ resource in the middle of the human territory, and there's 15 and 10 pq heavy grav planets within easy reach...



make that 8 months ago

eh, nevermind...

the humans still have the custom icon from a previous game and i really don't want to deal with the headache of their planets having the same icon as mine

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.

No. Move quick...you need to be invading whilst the AI is still concentrating on colonizing.

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.

It's garbage start positions like this that SCREAMS the need for a SID MEYERS Civ Conquests style map editor that lets YOU dictate starting positions.

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

Good luck.
- Wyndstar

Let me be the contrary opinion....Just looking at that map makes me tired. I'm afraid that would qualify for one of my very rare ctrl->n's. It may be winnable, but I don't like starting neck deep in a hole, just from a bad starting position. I feel different about holes I've chosen or dug myself...

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.

Yes, you can; click the Tools button at the top of the first post.

I'd hit it (ctrl+n), too. Winnable or not, it's just going to be a long hard slog when a more enjoyable game is just a keyboard shortcut away.

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.

Looking at these posts i see that the use of CNTRL+N mainly depends on what type of game you feel like playing at the time.

There is no sense in going against what you want and refraining from using CNTRL+N because you feel some kind of obscure obligation to the game community!