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To design a scenario just by playing 8 hours minimum every day for six months, I might be able to create a grand galactic armageddon if I make no errors. It's like a full time job except completely focused so say not only strong, but perfectly balanced by some methodology. It is too much of a Hercul...

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There is this awful story some Soviet political prisoners told. It used to be common that political prisoners were sent to asylums for the mentally ill and drugged and so destroying their will and actually making them insane. And some guards devised a ritual. If a political prisoner could play a gam...

Several games allow armies and fleets, but BotE allows space fleets and in a glorious way, but the chance of a player building them is small just in their base designs, but miniscule to make them as strong as the Omega starships are in these advanced save games. They are maxed out. And you have 2,00...

For every element in BotE to come along might be like 1 chance in 230.5 billion . So if you played every day since Sir Puff Cake made BotE, you would never see such a scenario. But I want to give you that chance, but I need those modding commands to make a grand galactic war possible in a balanced w...

BotE allows you to fight an immense galactic war against six opponents and 143 minor race aliens. It allows you to fight using many starship classes each with unique abilities. It allows you to fight against in single and multiplayer games. It allows you to learn technology so not only can you attai...

Let's say you are playing a dice game with an opponent. Ideally you are playing against a friend because you have some personal connection so the game is meaningful, or even better, someone you really don't like. It is a grudge match against someone who is very overconfident. You want to have a game...

What follows then is not only is a special luxury providing income streams and morale, but certain luxuries might be required for some buildings, likely morale boosting buildings. Thus trading for luxuries is a vital active process in BotE. To do that means altering the total number of trade and res...

Trading mission critical raw materials is not wise as your own inhabited sectors might need them. But if certain terraformed planet classes produced a factory of say pharmaceuticals or spices or marble or gold, and you could elect to trade those luxuries that provided income and improved diplomatic ...

Now I personally think that Sir Puff Cake is a genius. What I think would be great would be if human players dispatched freighters and in multiplayer, other enemy starships were like pirates and attacked those freighters. See that...is interesting. I don't think the AI is smart enough to figure that...

The reason I came up with my commodity manipulation system was I was increasingly frustrated as I had a glut of resources, and yet lacked resource routes. This is weird. I have mining at a maximum of 125,000, but I can't create a resource route from that inhabited sector??? Why? Population and certa...

You ideally want the AI to do the same things the human player is doing so it can absolutely do everything and be unlimited, but then perhaps need say duranium, so encouraged to trade for it... or conquer nearby systems as it needs those duranium mines. The impetus for war is scarcity of resources. ...

I can't determine if the AI actually makes resource routes and if it is limited in what it makes based a lack of a critical raw material as the human is required to do. If you wanted to get along with specific major race's empires, then you would actually create trade routes. Doing so is extremely f...

Once I do a galactic survey of stars, planet types, and population maximums, then it makes sense to add specific buildings based upon the presence of certain planet classes that have been terraformed in order to best utilize them in keeping with the spirit of the BotE's galactic milieu. Right now as...