Small update: we have a few families that do not have any “stay in fam people”. We’re opening those up to anybody who wants to join and draft in friends.
We don’t have an automated process for this, so msg me here or on Discord if this interests you.
If I remember correctly you only saw the image of the galaxy before you selected the sector (map used to be broken up into ~4 sectors) but once you were actually in the map after selecting the sector, the random system placement was the same as it is now.
Well, 200x200 is four times bigger than 100x100 (you can fit four 100x100 maps in a 200x200 map), so doubling the system count is still only half the density compared to a 100x100 with half the systems. So it isn’t a side effect and the more spread out map with longer travel times is definitely what would be expected.
Anyway, I’m glad to see a 1x resource start again!
I do like the 1x resources. Because there is actual strategy involved.
Also its nostalgic
But back then we had 15 player’s a family. A fam of 8 lets say 6 active player’s. Not sure the smaller fams… maybe 4 active? The resources arent proportionate to the amount of family members.
Its still interesting to see. The bigger active fams will still have a huge advantage.
Gonna point out the same as has been said. 1x resources works with 15 to 20 player fams and 3 month rounds.
As it stands now, 2x or 3x would be ideal in the same spirit of the “normal” starting res.
At the current settings it will take 3 weeks minimum for expo phase to end. I would bw shocked if any fam had more than doubled their size after 2 days.
I love the idea of going back to normal res. But it needs to be adjusted for smaller fams and a shorter round honestly.
It’s all good @HydroP. I was surprised as many wanted normal ressies as they did, but that’s what won the vote.
We’ve done it before with 6 week rounds and it wasn’t too horrible, but yes definitely slower. We do have about twice as many spots too as some of those older rounds, so that should help a bit too.
I am happy that the ressies are shorter for sure. Makes it fun because activoty and economic management becomes extremely important.
However, it will take away from wars lol. I mean sure raids on unportaled players may happen, but not real wars until the latter half or 2 weeks of the round.
It was an option yeah. There was spiral and “target” (circle) and such but the only one that still works is random.
This is possible again though with the new custom maps, as we saw @Vegnarok do with Sirius. The process is very tedious though; we likely won’t be able to do this for primary galaxies until we make a proper map editor, which would be part of the Galaxy Creator.
