AI and Time Limit Difficulty Setting

[hhyyrylainen]

Related thread about the overall time limit:

Game Time Limit?

I don’t know if this is the right place to put this, but I was wondering if there will be a point in the game when the planet’s sun will die? Or will it be like Spore and the planet and sun will live indefinitely? I know our own sun will live for another 5 billion years but Earth will only be inhabitable for another 1 billion. In my Vaotes game I am set to enter multicellular at 3,300 Myr, and I’m a little nervous that there wouldn’t be much time for the rest of the stages when they come out. I …

I partially replied to this idea in the quick questions thread before I saw this separate thread opened:

Quick Question Thread

This is why time limits, I think, need to be tied to the difficulty mode. The AI being in danger of advancing past you should be a fun condition to try to combat against (and probably should be disabled entirely in easy mode). The reason why I’m very against even trying to make the game work is exactly this: It would be an absolute nightmare to design the game simulation, performance, and program being able to make this work in any other way than just declaring the game to be over. If we put…