spiral or eliptical? whats your prference?

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spiral or eliptical? whats your prference?

[Moonjunk]

I like spiral. It sets goals out for my expansion plan: Try to colonize an entire arm.

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Originally posted by Chancellor Vlad:

I like spiral. It sets goals out for my expansion plan: Try to colonize an entire arm.

do you prefer 2 or 4?

[atm]

Spiral hands down. It sets up natural barriers to expansion that make initial expansion more interesting. My usual first challenge is to figure out how to jump the arms so I can get a leg up on my immediate neighbors.

As hyperdrive, that is usually quite easy, as long as you can control a bridge between arms. Considering you are vulnerable to being cut off when hostile territory extends onto your hyperlane networks, the fact you can hop arms pretty easily is a nice tradeoff.

As wormhole, you have to hunt for a space where the stars are close enough together, which might or not exist on your map. Ditto with warp drive.

In eliptical it is just a big blob.

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Originally posted by atm:

Spiral hands down. It sets up natural barriers to expansion that make initial expansion more interesting. My usual first challenge is to figure out how to jump the arms so I can get a leg up on my immediate neighbors.

As hyperdrive, that is usually quite easy, as long as you can control a bridge between arms. Considering you are vulnerable to being cut off when hostile territory extends onto your hyperlane networks, the fact you can hop arms pretty easily is a nice tradeoff.

As wormhole, you have to hunt for a space where the stars are close enough together, which might or not exist on your map. Ditto with warp drive.

In eliptical it is just a big blob.

do you prefer 4 arms or 2?

[nDervish]

Elliptical, with a mod that constrains all FTL types (including Jump Drive) to hyperlanes. It gives a much more complex and varied network of paths than spiral, with natural chokepoints that allow areas to be sectioned off, similarly to controlling an arm which is isolated from its neighbors, but with many more isolatable regions instead of just 2 or 4.

[Radiosity]

I love how ring isn't even an option, lol. I can see why, though. My current game is a ring galaxy and it's.... not great. Even the game apparently agrees, because it didn't bother spawning any FEs in the entire 20 empires. Going to restart with a spiral again next time, last time I ended up with an FE on the next arm over as my neighbour (militant isolationist xenophobe, because of course they were)... and I was using hyperdrives. There were no direct lanes so I had to go around three other empires to reach the FE, that was a painful fight when they had jump drives.

[Moonjunk]

Originally posted by B1ackHammer:

Originally posted by Chancellor Vlad:

I like spiral. It sets goals out for my expansion plan: Try to colonize an entire arm.

do you prefer 2 or 4?

4 arms.

[Idrinth]

Originally posted by Radiosity:

I love how ring isn't even an option, lol. I can see why, though. My current game is a ring galaxy and it's.... not great.

I actually enjoy rings, out of the same reason others mentioned arms - limits the area of access to your territory.

[LordNichlas]

eliptical is my prefer, but i can play spiral 4, its not just not as fun as eliptical

[DVeL]

I would go with ecliptical =) In spiral it just feels that you have less dimensions to expand. More restricted and limited.

[LordNichlas]

Originally posted by DVeL:

I would go with ecliptical =) In spiral it just feels that you have less dimensions to expand. More restricted and limited.

yeah i have the same feeling

[Mansen]

2 Spiral, Warpdrive every time. :)

[Ryika]

Both have their pros and cons imho.

Eliptical is great because of the freedom it gives you, and because it reduces the chances of having a bad start where you're squeezed in-between Fallen Empires. 8)

Spiral is great because of the way it creates such unique maps where you're somewhat seperated at first but then over time, the whole map opens up to you (I prefer 4 arms).

[Radiosity]

Originally posted by Idrinth:

Originally posted by Radiosity:

I love how ring isn't even an option, lol. I can see why, though. My current game is a ring galaxy and it's.... not great.

I actually enjoy rings, out of the same reason others mentioned arms - limits the area of access to your territory.

I got really unlucky with initial spawns, probably didn't help. All regular AI, no advanced (even though they were active in options), no FEs spawned either.

Started a new game today on a 4-arm spiral, got two FEs right on my doorstep and had to take some creative measures ('liberating' a xenophobic purifier empire to steal all their territory because I couldn't expand in the other direction, lol) to actually get anywhere. Much better.