What options do the devs play with?

[Martyn van Buren]

I'm curious to ask, partly so I can get a sense of where you're coming from on game balance and difficulty.  Chris always says the game is balanced around difficulty 7, but 80-world diff 7 with the safe options I tend to take (pretty vanilla lobby choices, usually not much expansion stuff, generally one easy and one medium AI type) is about right for me and thus I figure clearly way too easy for an experienced player.

[keith.lamothe]

I tend to play 7-7.6 fallen-spire, with a preference for concentric maps and not too much going on to hammer me.  Most of the hammering features are for you guys

[blastpop]

Most of the hammering features are for you guys

I guess those options are for the masochistic among us. I tend to like my games challenging to the point that it doesn't interfere with my relaxation. 

[Moonshine Fox]

Most of the hammering features are for you guys

By "you guys", you mean "GUDare", right?

[TechSY730]

Most of the hammering features are for you guys

By "you guys", you mean "GUDare", right?

Nah, many of us other like to torture ourselves.

Sometimes, just for fun, I'll start a game with two 10 AIs with +300% handicaps, both of them non-turtle technologists or "The Core", and see how long I can last.

On a more serious note, I do like playing with hybrids sometimes. Those things are actually pretty darn smart, even on normal hybrids. I'll also turn on roaming enclaves sometimes.

[keith.lamothe]

Yea, the hammering has been indulged since long before GUDare showed up, though he has made some unique contributions to the field of hitting oneself in the face with a concrete sled

[Moonshine Fox]

I've barely conquered the AI on 7.6 yet so I'm still fairly "noobish" at this. But I like the Hybrids. And by "like" I mean I get killed by them. A lot. Repeatedly. They're NASTY. But "fun", in a Dwarf Fortress kind of way.

[keith.lamothe]

But I like the Hybrids. And by "like" I mean I get killed by them. A lot. Repeatedly. They're NASTY. But "fun", in a Dwarf Fortress kind of way.

I'm not sure, but I think in their name for themselves translates into our language as "Elephant".

[Wanderer]

Yea, the hammering has been indulged since long before GUDare showed up, though he has made some unique contributions to the field of hitting oneself in the face with a concrete sled

BWAAHAHAHAAH!!!.. Ow... stop, laughing makes me hurt... ow... damned street luge...

[Spikey00]

Masochists, all of you.



And sadly me as well.

[Moonshine Fox]

But I like the Hybrids. And by "like" I mean I get killed by them. A lot. Repeatedly. They're NASTY. But "fun", in a Dwarf Fortress kind of way.

I'm not sure, but I think in their name for themselves translates into our language as Elephant "Skeletal Elephant".

Fixed that for you.

[keith.lamothe]

Either way, they've learned something: In space, it's a lot harder to drown in magma.

[Shrugging Khan]

I really tend to play AIW like DF. All long-term planning, a refusal to play with non-challenging conditions, and I never ever win.

[x4000]

I tend to play 80 planet maps with difficulty 7 and with three other players, which complicates matters.  I also tend to have various minor factions on, but it really varies from game to game.  I don't play with hybrids or fallen spire, but I do play with things like marauders and rebel colonies and medium golems.  Not as much spirecraft.