As for game settings, I wish I could find a game that had ship edits similar to game F on Vid Kid's server, although stock ships with maybe 1 or 2 new ships (with good offensive odds, or maybe 255+ holds (not sure if that's possible, can you edit a ship to have more than 255 holds?) I personally like ship edits that are kinda like this:
Max Holds: 250+
Off. Odds: 1.5:1
Def. Odds: 1.4 - 2.0:1
Max Figs Per Attack: 10,000 to 15,000 is good. 20k would be cool too tho..
Max Figs: AT LEAST 50,000
Max Mines: 200-250
Max Torps: 5-10
TPW: If ship has high off. odds, and low def. odds, 2 tpw min. is good, high def. odds and low off. odds, 1-2 tpw is cool.. if odds are like off. = 1.5 and def = 2.0, 2-3 tpw is about fair.
Transporter Range: 10-15 hops
TransWarp Drive: YES
Photons: YES
Long Range Scanner: YES
Planet Scanner: YES
Base Cost: 900k-1.3M
As far as universe size and turns go, I would like to play a game thats like 1k turns per 5k sectors, so if you got a 10k sector universe, you got 2k turns.. ya know. Maybe 1.5k turns per 5k sectors.. depends on your universe size I guess.. I think anything less is not enough turns.. You ever tried to explore a 20k sector universe with 1k turns? It's no fun. Especially when ship edits have like tpw = 3..
As for helpers, I use Attac 3.1.1, I tried 4.1.3 at first, but I guess it has some issues with Windows XP Pro, it kept crashing on me, as soon as I entered a game, even with compatibility settings set for Win98. But 3.1.1 works just fine for me. It has slightly limited features if you don't pay for it, like it will only let you run scripts for 7 cycles, then stops and says you should pay for it, or whatever.. (Hey earth, maybe you could work on that issue with 4.1.3 for me? Maybe then I'd shell out the dough  ) Well there's my 2 cents.
likwid
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