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Arcane posted 03-22-99 02:33 PM ET
While I enjoy the whole researching and discovery bit.. I think sometimes I'd just like to be able to start building grav-ships right away. While I could edit everything by hand, it would be nice if there was an 'Advanced Tech from start' option. The Time-Warp isnt enough..

Jasper McChesney posted 03-22-99 04:20 PM ET
Though no formal option exists, you could alter each faction to get a large # of free tech selections on startup. I don't know how the AI would do at it, and it could be a bit unbalancing if you went wild with it, but that seems the best way to me. Unless of course you could alter the Tim-Warp so it warps you even further into the future...
JaimeWolf posted 03-22-99 10:05 PM ET
You could add ", Tech, 30" to the end of the "SOCIAL, +xxxxxx" line in each faction. That would start you off about half-way up the tech tree.
James
Darkstar posted 03-23-99 05:31 PM ET
Get AC-Editor.
Build a custom faction with Grav. That simple.
-Darkstar
SnowFire posted 03-23-99 08:03 PM ET
You could also crank the tech paradigm way up in alpha.txt from 100 to 800 or something like that and get discoveries ridiculously fast.
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Author	Topic: Option to start off with very high tech?
Arcane	posted 03-22-99 02:33 PM ET While I enjoy the whole researching and discovery bit.. I think sometimes I'd just like to be able to start building grav-ships right away. While I could edit everything by hand, it would be nice if there was an 'Advanced Tech from start' option. The Time-Warp isnt enough..
Jasper McChesney	posted 03-22-99 04:20 PM ET Though no formal option exists, you could alter each faction to get a large # of free tech selections on startup. I don't know how the AI would do at it, and it could be a bit unbalancing if you went wild with it, but that seems the best way to me. Unless of course you could alter the Tim-Warp so it warps you even further into the future...
JaimeWolf	posted 03-22-99 10:05 PM ET You could add ", Tech, 30" to the end of the "SOCIAL, +xxxxxx" line in each faction. That would start you off about half-way up the tech tree. James
Darkstar	posted 03-23-99 05:31 PM ET Get AC-Editor. Build a custom faction with Grav. That simple. -Darkstar
SnowFire	posted 03-23-99 08:03 PM ET You could also crank the tech paradigm way up in alpha.txt from 100 to 800 or something like that and get discoveries ridiculously fast.