Please make the map bigger

Crusher122

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12 years ago

Jul 8, 2012, 7:14:48 AM

I think the current huge map is pretty small. Like Civilization 5 the huge map size is really big but on this game huge seams like a 3 person map and you can fill it with up to 7 other people without you. Please in the future make the map sizes bigger.

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12 years ago

Jul 8, 2012, 7:41:23 AM

I tend to play with 4 players on an 8 player map on huge or greater and find that reasonably challenging in the initial colonization rush

But I'm pretty sure there are mods in the modding section here for massive galaxy generation!

Seska

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Seska

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12 years ago

Jul 8, 2012, 12:05:11 PM

You must take into action, that the more bigger, the more CPU Workload for the AI Moves and yours, it takes. So i think here they try to find a middle way for all kind of CPU Users. Perhaps Multi core tweak helps?

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MacbethAUT

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12 years ago

Jul 8, 2012, 6:53:35 PM

Well that shouldn't be a problem. If you create a huge map and your PC can't handle it create one a little smaller.

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Scrooge

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12 years ago

Jul 8, 2012, 7:04:00 PM

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please add a "megamap" option or someth like that

Igncom1

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12 years ago

Jul 8, 2012, 7:05:54 PM

You can mod the maps bigger, but the apparently have memory issues.

Mansen

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12 years ago

Jul 9, 2012, 1:26:42 AM

Crusher122 wrote:
I think the current huge map is pretty small. Like Civilization 5 the huge map size is really big but on this game huge seams like a 3 person map and you can fill it with up to 7 other people without you. Please in the future make the map sizes bigger.

I have to ask - have you actually tried playing a huge map with the 8 players to the end? It takes... patience. Especially so because the end turn calculations take up to 10-15 seconds on a creme de la creme machine.

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bytestream

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12 years ago

Jul 9, 2012, 2:06:21 AM

Mansen wrote:
I have to ask - have you actually tried playing a huge map with the 8 players to the end? It takes... patience. Especially so because the end turn calculations take up to 10-15 seconds on a creme de la creme machine.

Yes, but that's probably due to some flaws in the AI and simultaneous movement system. There are games out there with way bigger maps and more options that don't take forever for the AI to complete a turn.

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NewHorizon

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12 years ago

Jul 9, 2012, 2:11:48 AM

I would like to see some slightly larger maps, but whoever said it is likely right, they will come from modding. I remember in Civ 4 i used to mod the maps to make them huge, that was always fun.

The largest maps on here, which are all i play on, with the density set to high still aren't very big, and by turn 50, or there about, it's totally colonized with maybe a few exceptions. Then you still end up with AIs that sometimes fail at the land grab and then seem to just shut down... its strange.

I remember gal civ 2 had some really big maps, i did have that in mind when i first played ES.

Now with that all being said, ES games do go by at a reasonable speed, and that probably has a lot to do with the map size.

FerretWithASpork

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FerretWithASpork

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12 years ago

Jul 9, 2012, 4:30:31 AM

I agree that the maps feel a bit small for the number of players allowed.

krisslanza

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krisslanza

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12 years ago

Jul 9, 2012, 4:45:20 AM

I have to agree, even on Huge, high density, the galaxy still feels really... small. As another poster mentioned, it hardly takes that long in the scheme of things for either every system to get gobbled up by the AI, or that it's all simply locked off because it's within the influence.

Maybe another map size later on, like "Massive" or something.

CorwinSF

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CorwinSF

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12 years ago

Jul 9, 2012, 6:24:24 AM

Concur - I like a space game that has the feeling of the vastness of a galaxy.

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MODNosferatiel

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MODNosferatiel

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12 years ago

Jul 9, 2012, 8:04:53 PM

First: Please post suggestions only in the proposals section.

Second: This has already been proposed here: /#/endless-space/forum/28-game-design/thread/11794-huge-could-do-with-being-more-huge

This thread has been linked to the former and is moved to the archives.