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SEV 1.63
BM 1.11

I am NOT using quick start.

I cannot get more than 10 total empires in a game. I've tried numerous quadrant sizes, altering the settings.txt etc.....

In my latest attempts, I have set the "Number of Computer players" to maximum/high when choosing the Empire options during game setup.

Furthermore, I have altered the settings.txt set to the following:

Minimum Computer Player Low Setting := 19
Maximum Computer Player Low Setting := 19
Minimum Computer Player Medium Setting := 19

SEV 1.63
BM 1.11
FQM 5.00 Beta 12

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8592/sevbm111fqm122yt9.jpg

As you can see, the Supply Storage, Ordnance Storage, and the Heavy Armor components are not showing up in the Ship Design page.

Have I installed the above mods incorrectly?

I've read over the installation for BM & FQM, but I have seen a few other oddities that lead me to question if I've done something incorrect with the installation of those 2 mods.

Side Note:
Just to be on the "safe side" could somebody go over the preferred/best way to install these two mods step-by-step?

How would people feel about some changes in the diplomacy. I have few ideas that I would like to run through and get some comments:

I) No research clause.

This is a bit of a wierd thing, I can see some reasons to incorporate it, but mostly it is too clumsy even if you wish to use it. This is why I would like added options for it. Now it forbids all research, but how about a research max level?

For example, you could suggest a treaty, where "both empires research max. 100 000 pts worth." or "Our empire researches max. 50 000 pts worth."
That would make it more usable, as currently the "no research" is mainly a humiliation clause ("W3 pwn j00 n00b, agree to this treaty that prevents you from doing research or we destroy you").

...with comparisons to Vista:

http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/2007/12/14/review-windows-xp.aspx

Is anyone else having a problem using the tutorial in 1.63? I tried to access it and...well, the game doesn't crash but nothing happens.

I also tried accessing my own scenario (I just changed some text in the tutorial for now to try and see how it works), got both the text and settings files OK, but I get an access violation and "Canvas cannot be drawn" error (or something close to that anyway). Any ideas?

In my current game, I am positive the AI I have met have not met each other... and I've decided to not share any communication channels because AI empires always demand I break treaties with each other.
Anyway, all the AI got my communications channels anyway.

Post the link to your mini cities so we can click on them once a day so your population grows!

My Minicity:

http://the-borg.myminicity.com/