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ORIGINAL: joeyeti

A (wild) question also is if the distribution of empires takes into account rough resource availability for each?

But I might be overguessing here

Depending on Habitability settings, I think critical Strategic resources are fairly well distributed throughout the Galaxy.

Habitability is going to determine the total number of possible critical resources I believe (which affects difficulty).


Now Luxury resources are another issue.
It seems to me that some of the less common (not rare or unique) Luxury resources are not as prevalent as before.


I also get the impression that Fuel sources are a bit tighter now as well, but I haven't confirmed it.

I have looked a bit at luxuries in my AAR, since constructors are bored (and the AI wants 6 more .

I don't have large properties, but I for sure don't have access to "all" luxuries. Nor that I have a luxury shortage, but there is no glut.

Is that new? Dunno, I am not used to manual constructors (but I am starting to like that).

I'm thinking Luxuries like Falijain Spice, Megalos Nut, Jade, some of the Water based ones, and even Wiconium(?) may be slightly less common.


Maybe they've just been getting generated in other parts of the Galaxy than I've been [;)]

ORIGINAL: Spacecadet

While we're waiting for more news on the release, I mentioned that Empire distribution had been tweaked.

Here's a typical view of how Empire distribution currently looks.

The settings for this game start up were two at "Average" distance, and the rest at "Distant", of course this doesn't include Independents that become Empires, but I think you can get a rough idea of what to expect with Shadows [8D]

Oh, I am very disappointed. I was hoping that the empires can be more evenly distributed. 5 next to each other, and another 5 way too far from any other.

Did the developer actually mention this was improved or did you presume?

I usually get a better spread in Legends.

I think people are becoming confused with Spacecadet's empire distribution example.

In my experience, when you set other races to be distant or average distances away, they tended to all group up. The only way to have empires fairly evenly spaced would be to leave it all on random.

To me, it seems that Shadows' has improved this distribution system by quite a large amount!

ORIGINAL: w1p

I think people are becoming confused with Spacecadet's empire distribution example.

In my experience, when you set other races to be distant or average distances away, they tended to all group up. The only way to have empires fairly evenly spaced would be to leave it all on random.

To me, it seems that Shadows' has improved this distribution system by quite a large amount!

Yes agreed set all Empires to Random and they seem to be a little better distributed now with Pirates mixed up in between.

I'm curious to see others impressions on this fix, as it's one that I really begged to have implemented [:D]

Still hoping for some additional tweaking, but I really do think it's better than previous versions.


If somebody has just up through Legends installed, it'd be interesting to see what a typical spread is with the settings I use for the pic I posted.