MOO2 Fair and Balanced Galaxy Generator
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:17 pm
Hi folks
The information on these forums has been super helpful in my quest to make a fair master of orion save game for multiplayer.
I did a test with a friend, where we both loaded the same Savegame and used the same tactics, but one of us volunteered not to colonize a rich planet as our 3rd colony (including home)
This resulted in a over 20% difference in final score!
And it was reproduceable. The galaxy generation can cause the balance of the game to hugely favor one player over another without that player being significantly better.
This would be ok for many short games, but since games are so long, I decided it was time to tackle the problem with technology.
I built a savegame editor that modifies the galaxy to be exactly reflected on all quadrants (for 4 players) or halves (for 2)
This means that everyone has the same opportunity in the early game.
hopefully it's interesting to y'all
https://github.com/danielrh/masteroforion2
I'd love feedback or if it helped y'all have fun.
The information on these forums has been super helpful in my quest to make a fair master of orion save game for multiplayer.
I did a test with a friend, where we both loaded the same Savegame and used the same tactics, but one of us volunteered not to colonize a rich planet as our 3rd colony (including home)
This resulted in a over 20% difference in final score!
And it was reproduceable. The galaxy generation can cause the balance of the game to hugely favor one player over another without that player being significantly better.
This would be ok for many short games, but since games are so long, I decided it was time to tackle the problem with technology.
I built a savegame editor that modifies the galaxy to be exactly reflected on all quadrants (for 4 players) or halves (for 2)
This means that everyone has the same opportunity in the early game.
hopefully it's interesting to y'all
https://github.com/danielrh/masteroforion2
I'd love feedback or if it helped y'all have fun.