Is there a limit on the number of alien races one can add in a gold game?

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Is there a limit on the number of alien races one can add in a gold game?



I don't know what the theoretical limit is, but the more important question is what are you planning to accomplish with them? What I'm getting at is that they can be interesting if balanced well, but if they aren't central to some specific game goals they can be an annoyance, especialy when they're going around sucking up products from the ports making less for the 'real' players.

If you have a well thought theme explaining their existence and purpose in the game or have specific goals of capturing a certain alien ship, taking out their homeworld, destroying the most # of gold alien ships, etc. they can be a lot of fun.

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I'm planning a new game called "The Confederation". It will have approximately 24 unique (no star wars or star trek) alien races, some good, some not. Each will start with their own small "empire".

I assume they will suck up some resources, and obviously one of the game goals, since this will be a limited turns game, will be to carve out your niche and survive amongst all these aliens.

Obviously, this is gonna be one of the most heavily edited games around ... it'll probably take me a month just to create everything. I hope it turns out as well as I hope it will tho.

So, that's why I asked about the alien limit ... I could make up to 200 races but I think that would be rediculous, as well as take too long to create.

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Is there a limit on the number of alien races one can add in a gold game?


There are three limits on the Gold alien server.

1) A single game may not have more than 1,000 active aliens (not races, but individual aliens).

2) A single game may not have more than 500 active alien races.

3) A single alien race may not have more than 500 individual aliens.

And that's the limitations.

I've had 24,000 active aliens running simultaneously while load-testing the non-player server (alien server) and providing you have the hardware to handle the load, the non-player server will handle the aliens with little or no problems.

Lisa M. Wilson
aka Rave
EIS Product Support

Hmmmm, that certainly ought to do nicely. I hope my Celeron 564 mHz computer and cable connection can handle it.

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