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One of the most annoying things besides simple modding (HoI veteran) was map generation.

In most of the cases many of the AI empires end up right next to each other in some cosmic balkan clusterf**k. The outcome is mostly like in real life, non or only one of them thrives, the rest is useless for the later game...
It is so bad that I routinely open the editor after starting a new game, check where the colored dots are and restart. Eventually I stopped starting new games...

Now, a year later, the map generation is as terrible as before, although at least the story can now be deactivated, which became also a boring habit of locating those uber ships just to park them somewhere, so the game ballance is not crushed by them.

I guess I will take an hour to generate a decent galaxy, play the game and then check again in a year, waiting for this main issue to be resolved... (just let the player enter a minimum distance between alien empires, thats all it takes)

edit: or as a workaround, let me drag and drop the stars (homesystems) in the editor, so that i can move these 5 single homesystems at the edge to the quarter of the galaxy, where only one homesystem is located

edit: best way would be like se5, give me the stars of the starting map and let me define the stars applicable for home systems

More modding should come in the next expansion, hopefully we'll have these basic tools then as well. They are badly needed.

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More modding should come in the next expansion, hopefully we'll have these basic tools then as well. They are badly needed.

How do you know this?

Erik announced it in a previous thread, here -> tm.asp?m=2818402

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Erik announced it in a previous thread, here -> tm.asp?m=2818402

He never announced more modding support, just that an expansion was being worked on.[:'(]

However I'm sure the poll will be taken into account and the game will have some new features.

And why not modders support.

Personally I will research the add-on throughly as I only got 2 months playing time outta ROTS before I was bored.

My formula for success is made and the "AI"... LOL can't handle it!

On Igard's poll thread, Erik made the below announcement

"Thanks again for this poll, it was part of the design discussion for the next expansion.

Regards,

- Erik "

This is actually the second poll and in the first one modding support got the most votes iirc so we do have some circumstancial evidence for this [:)]

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On Igard's poll thread, Erik made the below announcement

"Thanks again for this poll, it was part of the design discussion for the next expansion.

Regards,

- Erik "

This is actually the second poll and in the first one modding support got the most votes iirc so we do have some circumstancial evidence for this [:)]

The only thing we know is the vague notion that they are working on an expansion. Hell, the expansion may contain ships that fire carebears at opposing ships for all we know.