Default speed for hosted games

posted on April 5th, 2011, 2:46 pm

Hey, just wanted to see the opinion on what speed the game is played at with most people, I've found some strategy games like to keep the speed at normal for practice games and jump it up to maximum in regular games, as I've always practiced offline at the fastest speed. Just wanted to see if everyone plays at the default or faster, or if its just the few games ive played online that we've been at default speed 

posted on April 5th, 2011, 3:02 pm

Yup, we play at default speed (mostly) - that's Gamespeed 3 . It's impossible to play faster and use most special abilities intelligently, so higher game speeds tend to damage balance  . A very few play at slower game speeds as well 

posted on April 5th, 2011, 8:36 pm

Cool, thanks for clearing that up, and it makes sense especially about the effective special ability usage, never really used a lot of them now that I think about it, unless they were automatic because the game's pace was so fast. I just gotta get the feel for a longer wait on the next fed warp in haha 

posted on April 5th, 2011, 8:38 pm

We all use to play at 4 (3.0 time-period) but we switched back the 3 over time.

posted on April 5th, 2011, 8:57 pm

Yup, not-so-coincidentally as many of us started to see more and more problems with a large array of special abilities and units The slower the game speed (to a degree), the more mixed the fleets, and the more likely you are to figure out how to use unique combination of units/abilities and the like I think

posted on April 5th, 2011, 9:01 pm

Well, you are not the only one that simply keeps high weapons autonomy and doesn't care about Special weapons Iceman. I rarely use weapons autonomy, only if the battle gets too large and I can't control it anyway. Most the time I'm totally controlling specials myself. I admit that sometimes it leads to not using them at all, because I'm waiting for some weakened target or something big to fire at, but before it comes to that some ships die without having used their weapon  :'(.

posted on April 5th, 2011, 9:07 pm

Well, I would like to see the build times doubled on every unit (ship, station, research "pod").  It would make the game a lot more interesting but I suspect that the need for fewer expansions because of the longer build times would knock the balance out of whack slightly.

HINT:  You can already modify ship (and only ships) build times without modifying game speed.

posted on April 6th, 2011, 9:24 am

Well, I would like to see the build times doubled on every unit (ship, station, research "pod").  It would make the game a lot more interesting but I suspect that the need for fewer expansions because of the longer build times would knock the balance out of whack slightly.

HINT:  You can already modify ship (and only ships) build times without modifying game speed.

thats off topic, go put silly ideas in your own thread.

posted on April 6th, 2011, 2:04 pm

Sorry.