No starting base

posted on June 18th, 2010, 10:14 pm

It's a shame...

Well, many more map types will be added in the future

posted on July 19th, 2010, 1:56 pm

I tried experimenting with the idea and made a map where the start location was strategically useless in every respect (Except for maybe decomissioning the starbase for resources), forcing each player to venture into the resource rich asteroid field. The main advantage being that people could choose from one of around ten practical start locations and their opponents wouldn't know where they were. I never received any feedback on that map, so I don't know how it panned out in MP but I quite liked it in SP

Pheonix, is that map "Frontier Expansion v1.1"? 

I've tried setting that up for a multiplayer game several times, but generally get some response along the lines of, "I hate that map...let's do ______"

I've thought it would be interesting just to de-comm my starting base, and set-up closer to my allies...but you're at such a strategic disadvantage to do that I've never tried it (except in single player).