Preferred galaxy shape?

[NeverOdd]

So I dont quite understand these galaxy shapes and which ones are more suited for (x) amount of players. Like what is the difference between spiral 4 and disk 4? If i had to guess i would pick spiral 4 being everyones preferred choice, as in most balanced.

[martin77]

like spiral 8 and play with 8 races, so everyone is in his own galaxy arm in the beginning :)

[Astasia]

I'm honestly not a big fan of any of them. Normally I prefer spiral in games like this, especially when each faction can start in their own arm. It doesn't really work well in this game though because the arms can be quite close and free travel between stars comes too quickly, so you are sometimes almost instantly butting heads with another faction, especially if you start next to sophons. I guess I like ovoid the best, if I'm remembering the name right, it tends to be pretty stretched out on the largest map size and spawns tend to be better spaced.

[NeverOdd]

Hmm alright thanks for the feedback!

[phadin]

I usually just do random. This recent game I ended up with the two colliding galexies... 4 of us started in one, 4 in the other, and the middle section ended up not only being unoccupied, but where all but 1 of the special planets ended up (including Auriga and the Academy).

Fortune of Fortune, my starting planet ended up being on the hyperspace warp connection to the middle section. As soon as I got the tech to unlock those warp lanes, I could start populating that entire middle constellation utterly uncontested while the other groups in my starting galexy were fighting each other for territory. Very lucky starting position to be able to capitalize on that.

Interestingly, of the 4 other groups that started in my half of the map, Vodyoni and Sophan started right next to each other, with Horatio just 2 hops away. Me and the Unfallen were off elsewhere in the galexy... and the Unfallen did litterally nothing but turtle on their home planet until I came and just put them out of their missery.