Less Fed routes.

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Less Fed routes.

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The current game is the most boring round I have every played. Every single race has a perfect fed route. There is no hunting, no fighting, no competition really. No offense to anybody but this map design is the worst I have played in a looooong time. I would suggest that future maps actually encourage players to leave fed protection rather then just stay in it.
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Re: Less Fed routes.

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This will always happen whenever the racial galaxies are small. There isn't much that can be done for it except maybe reducing the number of fed sectors.
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Re: Less Fed routes.

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Incognito wrote:This will always happen whenever the racial galaxies are small. There isn't much that can be done for it except maybe reducing the number of fed sectors.
That is my strategy, personally - we've done 10x10 racial galaxies for both the draft and SS; I did not design SS, and I do feel there are too many fed sectors.

Do we really need more than 2 or 3 fed sectors? I realize that means scouting and mining the fed sectors in becomes possible...but I don't think thats necessarily a bad thing.
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Gal creator automatically places the fed sectors when adding a fed, I could shrink the size of feds but the reason why I am hesitant is that it will be easier to hunt fed/mine feds with less fed sectors in play.
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Re: Less Fed routes.

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Given the ease of trade and difficulty of hunting these days, I don't think the scouting/mining around fed sectors is a totally terrible idea.
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Might easier to just remove the ports that are within 2 sectors of a fedspace...
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The size of feds (as far as I'm aware) is largely to try and ensure there are multiple routes out of fed so it is harder to lock them down, however with the ability to set per-galaxy mine duration the need for that has been decreased a lot, so making fed smaller should probably be fine now, maybe stick a random location just outside of fed space if need be to stop the mining but reduce fed routes.
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i say make feds smaller
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Page wrote:The size of feds (as far as I'm aware) is largely to try and ensure there are multiple routes out of fed so it is harder to lock them down, however with the ability to set per-galaxy mine duration the need for that has been decreased a lot, so making fed smaller should probably be fine now, maybe stick a random location just outside of fed space if need be to stop the mining but reduce fed routes.
True about the mine times, the thing is we cant reduce the mine time too low because then hunting would be futile. Next game map however we will try smaller feds and see what happens from there, max size of fed currently is 13 sectors, I will trim that down to 5 sectors or less depending upon the layout of the gals.
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Re: Less Fed routes.

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Can we just make all fed-sector connectivity and layouts the same? 1 HQ surrounded by 4 fed beacons.
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