Best NON-Open Maps?

use the map creation tool.Forgot its name...
The one from inside the game, the random creation one, it can make it so that you have very little phase lanes and as a result its less open.

I believe the word your looking for is closed and phrase closed off.

the custom map generator is fun, once you realize how to fiddle with the sliders.

ive made myself a 6 player 2 star system map which has about 90 planets =P.

lol, i tried using the random map generator to make a custom 4 player map, i dont know what slider i accidently messed up but we all started out with 2 planets all connected to a central sun...problem was the phase lane to the sun was so long it took about 15 minutes for a fleet to traverse it. Suffice to say i surrendered pretty quick  :p 

It's 6 players but play Entanglement.

I just got done with a game on System of War...it is pretty private. Each AI starts in another solar system, and there is a massive one in the center your supposed to fight over.

I got mauled. Hard map.

I like Kronac's Cross.

that's the one! MAULED.


yea, i meant the "premade ones" but thanks for the suggestion abotu the map creator. AND BY GOD. i messed around with that last night....i created one that JUST MIGHT take me a YEAR to complete.

cool, will do. thx.

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i love the sheer amount of different factions! i can ally myself with any one of these???

I believe the slider at the very top (galaxy size) determines just how big each system is. if not, play around with the other slides.

try systems of war 2v2. A lot easier. I've been playign since about 6 hours and I think we got it locked up. They JUST started doing piddly raids into my home system and I caught 3 of their caps in the grav well and just blew one up when I caught it as they destroyed one of the asteroids...which was no big deal. Had 2 colony ships there. They deployed 15 seconds after it got knocked off.

Fun stuff. Pretty sure we got the middle locked down. Key is win all the pirate bids no matter what it costs, and lots of carriers in your home grav well. 6 + sova kept them out till about an hour ago. Just added 15 more and 4 caps to home defense.

The thing to remember with it, is that if you get arctic colonization quickly you can more or less secure a little area of 4 planets for yourself. There are three entrances to your little empire, but the pirates always use the same one, and you can more or less guess which enemy is going to use which side of the other two.

Game works best 2v2 as an ally is in the direction of one of your flanks, so you just have two planets to watch out for. Set a nifty capital combo at the pirate-entrance, and your main fleet towards the other enemy, and you are set for turtling and research and whatever.

Lacks metal though.

Only downside is that the map can be over quickly if you try to do it. I said i use it for testing things, i usually test against the pirates because everyone else is dead=P

Thats nothing.

Why Did you surrendered Hyphonz those are the best it makes for a realistic fight since it gives you time to pump out forces