Medium or Large Galaxy Size and why? give your opinon!

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Medium or Large Galaxy Size and why? give your opinon!

[tomasoltis]

well, on smaller maps if you increase habitable planets like 5x, ecoínomy will be stronger and each new star much more productive so that there is much to fight over and habitats/ringworlds having a lesser impact. I havent tried this, but what I know is that I dont like large maps. 600 star systems is quite big already. Stronger economy in smaller space should also mean that endgame crises should be much easier to deal with.

[corisai]

Originally posted by tomasoltis:

well, on smaller maps if you increase habitable planets like 5x

Even 2x tend to generate notable amount of systems with 2-3 habitable planets. It's a bit too much for me (pure IMHO and it's too fantastic even for space opera).

What will happen on 5x I don't even want to imagine :)

[Shgon Dunstan]

Originally posted by corisai:

Originally posted by tomasoltis:

well, on smaller maps if you increase habitable planets like 5x

Even 2x tend to generate notable amount of systems with 2-3 habitable planets. It's a bit too much for me (pure IMHO and it's too fantastic even for space opera).

What will happen on 5x I don't even want to imagine :)

Hell, I turn the thing all the way down, and there are STILL a ridiculous number of them all over the place...

I would think that maybe it was the game being confused by the fact that I also have primitives all the way up, but most of them don’t have any on them... Which itself is kind of weird considering.

[Mistakes were made]

Originally posted by Ficelle:

Originally posted by corisai:

1k stars only and forever (especially after addition of planet killers!).

I come here for epic wars not for some pub fights,

But isnt 1000 stars a baby punching game once you are dominating ?

Not in my experience. I am currently in a game at war with a large federation. The federation fleet is almost 500k in power that is followed around by 10-12 smaller fleets. Total fleet size is over 1M. I did have a tech lead for a while but due to all the arbitrary war mechanics, they are catching up.

One or two battles results in instant war exhaustion/status quo then a forced 10 year truce. Since it's just me versus them now, I am in a truce with the whole galaxy. So I sit there for 10 years while all 5 empires they rebuild their fleets to >1M fleet power. Then we do the whole thing again.

It's virtually a stalemate. I can usually net several systems out of it but it's quite dull and a very poor war system in my opinion. Not at all what I was looking for in a strategy game.

[Storm]

1000 stars is definitely not a punching back when you have to deal with a 3 million contingency hub fleet at year 2400.

[Army Pea]

800 star maps is my general preference.

I find that on 1000+ (mods) that you never get to interact like AI across the map till way later in the game.

[corisai]

Originally posted by Shakedown Street:

It's virtually a stalemate. I can usually net several systems out of it but it's quite dull and a very poor war system in my opinion. Not at all what I was looking for in a strategy game.

Time to move on beta patch ;)

[Captain Keen]

Always play small maps. The smaller the map, the bigger you are. Literally.

[AttackBeagle]

Modded size laaarge. More comple and if I'm fighting for a galaxy it better be a large one.

[Ninjasquirrel]

Huge, with as many ai empires, primitives, fallen empires and marauders as I can pack into it.

[Crogg The Devourer]

The larger maps become a slog due to fleet caps being 1000. My game I'm playing a xenophobic empire going for conquest and the majority of whats left of the galaxy has federated against me. Their federation fleet is larger than any single fleet I have plus all their normal fleets make it impossible to win a war against them due to the excessive cost penalty for going past the 1000 cap.

[[FuFo] Mortucus]

i used to play 10k star maps now the games so long i still havent finished my first 1k max galaxy

[Mistakes were made]

Originally posted by Crogg The Devourer:

The larger maps become a slog due to fleet caps being 1000. My game I'm playing a xenophobic empire going for conquest and the majority of whats left of the galaxy has federated against me. Their federation fleet is larger than any single fleet I have plus all their normal fleets make it impossible to win a war against them due to the excessive cost penalty for going past the 1000 cap.

I had this problem too. The federation blob was over 1.1M (the largest single fleet almost 500k). I had several encounters trying to chip away at it using all battleships (5 fleets, 25 battleships per fleet).

But that was tedious and slow due to forced 10 year truces. I finally beat it down after re-fitting my battleships to the tachyon lance/neutron launcher/kinetic artillery build.