Posted by: Excaliber
« on: February 16, 2015, 09:40:35 PM »That's good that they don't affect each other. I didn't really want to bother with switching databases back and forth.
It's not npc's because I have a strict exterminate on sight policy regarding all alien races. If a spoiler or npc gets away from me I immediately set the npc generation chance to zero until I'm sure they've been dealt with. I've lost more games then I can count due to npc snowball effect and learned my lesson. I no longer start games with active npcs and npc generation chance together, it's either one or the other.
Funny that you should mention those civilians. Sometime ago I SM'ed a small pirate faction on some backwater planet just for the purpose taking out my civilians when they got too bloated. It appears I have about 200 civ ships. I think I'll play as a pirate tonight and see how much that helps. It's really not too bad yet, about 1 minute for a 5 day increment but I'll kill all my civies anyway and report back.
It's not npc's because I have a strict exterminate on sight policy regarding all alien races. If a spoiler or npc gets away from me I immediately set the npc generation chance to zero until I'm sure they've been dealt with. I've lost more games then I can count due to npc snowball effect and learned my lesson. I no longer start games with active npcs and npc generation chance together, it's either one or the other.
Funny that you should mention those civilians. Sometime ago I SM'ed a small pirate faction on some backwater planet just for the purpose taking out my civilians when they got too bloated. It appears I have about 200 civ ships. I think I'll play as a pirate tonight and see how much that helps. It's really not too bad yet, about 1 minute for a 5 day increment but I'll kill all my civies anyway and report back.