as Panopticon already mentioned, there's been multiplayer games around on these forums.
Probably. I've certainty heard of people doing multi-player, but until Panopticon shouted out I couldn't find any recorded example. Excluding single-faction community games, the only result my google-fu research found is a mult-faction Lets-Play on the Dwarf Fortress forum. The forum searches here haven't turned up much either.
I was hoping for more interest than just the four of us, but if the SM duties get that crazy, maybe only having three players would be a good thing.
Once I know for sure who's playing I'll see about getting a game topic in the fiction section.
Currently:
SM - sublight (me)
Player1 - OAM47
Player2 - Vynadan
Player3 - Panopticon
If it's just the three, I'm thinking a Terran/Venesian/Martian Sol-start game.
If so, anyone object to the following starting conditions?
• Three starting NPRs, SM added to have lower than usual starting NPR tech. 0% chance of new NPRs.
• 60 max-stars map initially, to be expanded to 240 as soon as all starting races are jump-connected.
• Precursers on. Star Swarm off. Invaders off initially but to be activated if a sudden-death resolution is ever needed.
• All races have ±65% gravitational tolerance, ±50% O2 tolerance, ±21°C temperature tolerance.
- Earthling: 22°C ideal temperature, 0.2 atm ideal oxygen, 3.5 atm max pressure, 1G ideal gravity.
- Martian: 12° ideal temperature, 0.15 atm ideal oxygen, 2.8 atm max pressure, 0.8G ideal gravity.
- Venusian: 32°C ideal temperature, 0.25 atm ideal oxygen, 4.4 atm max pressure, 0.95G ideal gravity.
• Mars/Venus Terraformed to be be cost-0 to the starting inhabitants, cost-2.0 to everyone else.
• 400 million Conventional starting population.
- +1 free extra research lab, starting naval shipyard capacity pre-doubled.
- Starting Tech: Trans-Neutonain Theory, Jump-Point Theory, Geological Sensors, Genetic Engineering, +4,000 RP of choice.
- 8 soon-to-be-obsolete IBM bases
- 8,000 CP for pre-game industrial production/industry conversion.