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What difficulty level do you prefer most to play at?

Less than 7
7 (18.9%)
7-7.6
26 (70.3%)
8-8.6
3 (8.1%)
9-9.6
1 (2.7%)
10
0 (0%)
I turn it up to 11
0 (0%)

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Offline Black

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Difficulty Level
« on: January 28, 2010, 04:14:26 pm »
I was curious what levels people preferred to play at. I've found level 7 boring enough that I tend to play at level 8.3 and higher. I find level 10 is too much of a grind, but level 9 is adequate for a somewhat challenging game.
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Offline Spikey00

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Re: Difficulty Level
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2010, 08:43:33 pm »
It also depends greatly on the AI personalities--harder AI types such as technologists will always be more difficult than the easy T1 sets.

I am usually too lazy to, as you say, grind through the game on the higher difficulties--especially with players who aren't on regularly (timely issue).
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Offline Aegis

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Re: Difficulty Level
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2010, 08:46:42 pm »
one ai on 6, the other at 7. depending on which friends i play with, we might pick less than 6 on a small amount of planets and sorta rush for points or somethin silly.
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Offline deMangler

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Re: Difficulty Level
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2010, 09:41:26 pm »
I voted 7.
I played one game at 5, the first one after I finished the tutorial, but I didn't feel very committed to it and gave up.
Every game since then I have played on 7. I have not completed a game yet, I have lost a few and in one of my solo games  I am 11 hours into it with 7 systems under my belt. It seems to be going well.
There is also a co-op game with a friend that is going well, that is on level 7.

I have experienced such a variety of challenges at level 7 that I have no urge to 'upgrade', but then I am pretty new to this game.
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Offline Dathknight

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Re: Difficulty Level
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2010, 01:20:40 am »
Less than 7.

I've lost some level 6 games. atm I try to win a level 5 game  ::)
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Offline Zitrax

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Re: Difficulty Level
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2010, 03:53:14 am »
I have only played two games so far, first with 2+3 but that was too boring so now I am trying 5+6 and is 10 hours into it.
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Offline Kordy

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Re: Difficulty Level
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2010, 06:08:01 am »
My first ever real win was in 5-6 difficulty and took me 36 hours by the in-game clock, but in reality it was mostly in simulation speed +1.

My last win took me over 6 hours with 2 other people and was on 7.3 and 7.6, I think. I much prefer over 7 difficulties.
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Offline Minty

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Re: Difficulty Level
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2010, 08:21:01 pm »
Me, I tend to play 7/7 random all non-tech. I've yet to win a game, but I'm having a blast getting trounced left and right, and it's a definite learning experience. :)

On the subject of turning it up to eleven..

http://xkcd.com/670/

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Offline Doddler

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Re: Difficulty Level
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2010, 12:02:57 am »
I play on 7 only, which seems like a reasonable level for those familiar with the genre.  I'm curious, does increasing the difficulty actually make the AI itself harder, or does it just give them more ships/reinforcements?
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