Very large galaxy tips

[Chastity the Celibate]

If you happen to be playing on large galaxies (1000+ stars) you may find getting your fleets across the galaxy hard. Once you have found a majority of the other empires, you should claim one system bordering each empire. Upgrade those to at least Starports. If you do this, you will have upgrading stations and supply stops all over the galaxy. It will make foreign wars much easier and more efficient.

In such large maps, large tracts of space tend to go unclaimed for the first 100 years or so. Survey these areas to find rare planets, guardians, and anomalies before the other empires do.

Use the Curators to find the guardians (especially the Infinity Machine)

[Meewec]

map fills in pretty fast if you max the number of empires. only the dangerous space stops expansions.

i prefer to deal with my immediate neighbors and deal with other empires as i encounter them and they become relevant to my empire. not going to fly halfway across the galaxy to fight someone

[Chastity the Celibate]

Originally posted by Meewec:

map fills in pretty fast if you max the number of empires. only the dangerous space stops expansions.

i prefer to deal with my immediate neighbors and deal with other empires as i encounter them and they become relevant to my empire. not going to fly halfway across the galaxy to fight someone

Playing 2000 star galaxy with 31 AI and 5 Fallen and 3 marauders, on Captain difficulty, their are still massive chunks of space that’s unclaimed.

[dzantor]

Playing 1000 star galaxy with 16 ai (6 advanced), 4 fallen and 3 marauders, Grand admiral difficulty, agressive ai. 90 years into the game and almost whole map is claimed by ai empires that agresively fight me, each other, make pacts. I could bare deal with 5 empires that I borderd cause ai attacked me on once side of my empire If I already was in war with another ai on another side. So I can imagine what would happen if tok systems next each empire all over map, it would be so many aggresive ai against me all the time.

And noone even dares to attack guardians cause I have isb mod at hard level setting that scales guardians all the time (plus 2 ai improving mods). So no ai or me is ever even close to have power to defeat them. So all goes around those guardian systems.

[Chastity the Celibate]

Originally posted by Espek:

Playing 1000 star galaxy with 16 ai (6 advanced), 4 fallen and 3 marauders, Grand admiral difficulty, agressive ai. 90 years into the game and almost whole map is claimed by ai empires that agresively fight me, each other, make pacts. I could bare deal with 5 empires that I borderd cause ai attacked me on once side of my empire If I already was in war with another ai on another side. So I can imagine what would happen if tok systems next each empire all over map, it would be so many aggresive ai against me all the time.

And noone even dares to attack guardians cause I have isb mod at hard level setting that scales guardians all the time (plus 2 ai improving mods). So no ai or me is ever even close to have power to defeat them. So all goes around those guardian systems.

If you get the Playable Guardians Redone mod like I have, it buffs guardians to the way the were SUPPOSED to be, but PDX has so many errors in the files that most guardians lost strength.

And it let’s you get Guardians when you defeat them.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Huge maps are boring.

And since Pdox always has chance of bugs you could find something broken after 50 hours... Not worth it.

Medium and large are ok

[Chastity the Celibate]

Originally posted by Exarch_Alpha:

Huge maps are boring.

And since Pdox always has chance of bugs you could find something broken after 50 hours... Not worth it.

Medium and large are ok

Huge maps are way more fun because there is more stuff to explore, more anomalies, guardians, and more room for more empires.

All games have a chance of bugs

[maieutician]

I thought 1000 stars was max size. how to get larger? mods?

[Elitewrecker PT]

Yes

[Chastity the Celibate]

Originally posted by maieutician:

I thought 1000 stars was max size. how to get larger? mods?

Yeah, EG- Larger Galaxy Sizes.

[MaGicBush]

I'm playing a 1000 star atm as driven assimilators. So far I'm the biggest empire I've seen and explored all but one corner of the map now. Honestly I may agree with alpha as there is just to many empires across the map. This will take forever to conquer lol. I could see myself getting bored after a few wars.

[Chastity the Celibate]

Originally posted by MaGicBush:

I'm playing a 1000 star atm as driven assimilators. So far I'm the biggest empire I've seen and explored all but one corner of the map now. Honestly I may agree with alpha as there is just to many empires across the map. This will take forever to conquer lol. I could see myself getting bored after a few wars.

I have mods, I don’t get bored. Plus if I get bored I can use commands to summon the crisis.