To many factions??

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Curious if you can have to many factions in the game.  I've got about 40 AI opponents ready to face me on a immense map but the game freezes up trying to load the map now.  I left it sitting a good 15 minutes earlier and it didn't finish!  Only thing I can think is that I have to many factions on the map... or it's the mod to make minors a little more prominent.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I suspect you have downloaded someones faction which included custom ship blueprints and not moved them into the Design folder in the root directory. Ship designs can't be read from the mod's Design folder (yet).

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Curious if you can have to many factions in the game.  I've got about 40 AI opponents ready to face me on a immense map but the game freezes up trying to load the map now.  I left it sitting a good 15 minutes earlier and it didn't finish!  Only thing I can think is that I have to many factions on the map... or it's the mod to make minors a little more prominent.

 

Drop the mod and load up  25 to 30 AI`s  and go from there. then if you can get it to load re add the mod and see what happens. but I say it might be how many opponents your trying to use.(not knowing your setup) PC.

 

EDIT Surge might have a better Explanation 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Surge was indeed correct, it was one of the factions that had a custom set of ship designs.  Question, what's a good amount of factions to have on an immense sized map?  I don't like having other factions starting to close to me where we meet before I have a chance to start building myself up.

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Quoting Tilarium, reply 3

Surge was indeed correct, it was one of the factions that had a custom set of ship designs.  Question, what's a good amount of factions to have on an immense sized map?  I don't like having other factions starting to close to me where we meet before I have a chance to start building myself up.

 

I think this is a good question that have no real good answer... ;)

 

It completely depend on the map type (tight/loose cluster, scattered or spiral) how common stars, planets and how many habitable planets there are.

I would say that you need at least 15 AI opponent otherwise it will take ages for you to even meet someone, but 20-40 are probably more reasonable I think. More and I find that things just get too unpersonalized for me.