epic fights

I play huge multi-star maps with 10 players FFA. Half players hard and half on cruel. Anything above hard will increase A.I. research and income speeds. Even playing on normal with a bigger map should work. You just need the time for player fleets to build up in size.

The trade off is late game lag which a lot can be fixed with the Optimization Project Mod.

Another easy way to get HUGE fights is to make it so that, on a large map w/ 10 AI, make it so that there's 1 Vicious and the rest are either Hard or Cruel Ai, and then make it so that there's no AI in the system you start out in. 

Once you take the whole system, you should have supermassive slugging matches w/ the Vicious AI for control of your system.

Richter {^}

I hate cruel AI, only cause you have to 1) cheat them, 2)Map has to have only one early chockepoint and 3)Game takes needlessly long :/

You can also you the developer.exe to just spawn the fleets for the epic fights, but some might consider that cheating.

Not cheating...

That's called "resourceful hax" in my book.

Richter {^}

where do you get the developer exe

There inside the Sins root folder eg...

C:\Program Files\Stardock\Sins of a Solar Empire

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