PlanetsCentral

Hello Stefan,
Thank you for participating in this discussion.

I guess the salomonic decision would be an ending condition that is in the closer future.

I guess in this case we can use the standard end game scenario that was used in all previous games.

Going with the "200 planets" theme, "125 planets" sounds like a sensible goal than. As far as I recall, this very number was also common on for example PlanetsServer, and I wouldn't even go as far as to require "...and keep them for 5 turns", i.e. rush to the planets without caring for sustainability.

Would that be an acceptable compromise?

In my opinion, we can try such winning conditions: "Owning 125 planets for 5 consecutive turns" in the next game (North Star 3).
And perhaps add additional condition that the game should not continue more than 110 turns.
But right now it looks like changing the rules in the middle of the game.
I think that any changes should be applied before the game... or at least in the first 10 turns, otherwise use the default settings.

The second alternative would be to abandon (killrace?) those who want to end, but then probably ending for good would be better.

This option looks preferable for me right now.