Diffrence between Distributed players and Clustered players?

[Warlord Gandhi]

Can someone explain what the difference between these settings are

[cooltv27]

clustered players attempts to have the players close together. distributed tries to have them spread evenly apart

[Asuzu]

Quite self-explanatory man.
Clustered positioning will try to place player and empires into clusters with 2-3 systems between them on start.
Random is random.

[MrDeity]

Is it just clustering players or does it cluster AI empires near you as well? I like the idea of starting close to my coop partner but we don't want to start close to AI empires...

[Alugere]

It's entirely empire based, not player based. Neither setting will guarantee you to be close to another human player.

[cooltv27]

Originally posted by SirDeity:

Is it just clustering players or does it cluster AI empires near you as well? I like the idea of starting close to my coop partner but we don't want to start close to AI empires...

theres not much you can do to control whether you are close to an AI empire, but clustered players will put you close to the other players

Originally posted by Alugere:

It's entirely empire based, not player based. Neither setting will guarantee you to be close to another human player.

there is a setting for empires in general, and a different setting for players