Been playing about 2 or 3 weeks, have started up and played out a few games past 40-50 years. . . but I have yet to run into an AI. So I think, ill just make a galaxy with just 2 systems, surely then ill run into someone. That appears to be impossible to do. It starts the AI or at least I can tell it creates a system (above and beyond the maximum 2 i set, very annoying, real stars turned off) but none of Sols jump points connect to it, infact they spawn new systems above the maximum I set, and then connect back to themselves.
I attempt to use space master to add more AI, it adds more systems, I sim 100 months, and still no contact with anyone. I can see in the list of systems that its creating randomly numbered systems, then adding more systems close to the same number, I assume, as teh AI is expanding. . . but we never bump into each other.
Also I get DAO errors everytime I create a game. Have uninstalled, reinstalled, tried new directories, followed the tutorial to the T, and still get the errors. The only other errors I get is when I tell someone to do something they cant do, like pick up something that doesnt exist, or survey somewhere that there arent any survey points.
And apparently no one can play the game past 50-75 years? Is this due to errors, slowness, or what? If its just slowness, is there some way to actually LIMIT the number of systems? Or game settings that can be used to keep lower tech, smaller AIs around longer to avoid the slow downs?
So far my aurora experience has been an amazing first few days, then a cascading failure. The game doesnt seem peculiarly, as hard as claimed, a more detailed Space Empires IV, but I seem to be quite challenged by the game itself
Id like 10 systems max, ever, 4 AI, reasonably even starts, and I can figure it out from there, but getting it set up seems to be totally impossible.
