Randomly Generatated Maps

[djimm100]

I am tired of using the same maps over and over, but am also unhappy with drafted maps since poor tiles can be dumped on a single player. Do you have any plans to implement random or semi-random maps (making sure anomalies are evenly distributed would be nice)?

[GTSchemer]

There are no current plans, but if there is any sort of random website generator, you should be able to import the map string if it uses the normal format, and play friendly mode games that way.

One obstacle to things like this is that any sort of random map generation would need to consider various factors (resources, influence, wormholes, anomalies, traits / tech specialties, potentially legendary planets if expansions are added, etc.). Some players might prefer richer slices, some might prefer poorer for a slower game, and some factions and objectives may especially favor certain combinations.

In short, it is not super trivial to design such an algorithm, but perhaps in the future one could be considered.