Add new options to game setup
— at Version 8
A few more options that are useful for game setup:
Speed - set game speed / simulation rate (dropdown: default, slow, medium, fast)
Resources - set the starting resources for all players (dropdown: default, low, medium, high)
Population - set max population for all players (dropdown: default, 50, 100, 150, 200, 300, ...)
Difficulty - set AI difficulty (dropdown: easy, medium, hard, hardest)
Player Color
- Starting phase / techs
- RMS advanced options
- Possibly let random maps control what settings are available to the user during setup (change available map sizes or number of players)
- Add advanced options (e.g. forest cover, water/land balance, resource placement)
- These could be specified in the corresponding JSON file.
- AI advanced options
- Mode (aggressive, defensive, etc.) see #2550
- Could be defined in the same manner as RMS advanced options
Maybe AI difficulty/mode settings should be per AI player, rather than a single global setting that applies to all AIs. (Or maybe that'd complexify the UI too much in the common cases.)