Conquer All Max Difficulty

[corfe83]

What is the max difficulty you might successfully be able to conquer *all* planets on? I suspect it would not be hard on difficulty 1, but does anyone who has done this before have experience on how high is actually feasible (for an 80 planet map)?

I think it sounds fun to try a playthrough where I get to unlock so many techs, but still have a reasonable chance of eventually winning.

[keith.lamothe]

Until recently it was possible to do this on diff 7/7, though I suspect it would be pretty hard now outside FS.

[corfe83]

Until recently it was possible to do this on diff 7/7, though I suspect it would be pretty hard now outside FS.

Yeah, I mean on vanilla game (no special campaign settings). Maybe I'll try diff 6/6 (I've only ever beaten the game before on difficulty 7 so I'm not exactly an expert) and see where I can get to.

[RockyBst]

10/10. See: http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,15077.0.html

Helped a little by the fact that it was a ten planet cage match, of course

For a normal 80 planet map, I think there's a few people who've managed it on diff 7 or a smidge higher.