Preferred Game Settings

[Revanchist]

So I'm working through my second Ascendancy game, and for both of them I've just been using the default normal for everything (research speed, culture spread, the lot). I am interested in changing these up for my next games, but wanted to know if anyone had settings that they prefer when it comes to this.

[tlmiller]

Fast everything except ships, which I set to the fastest that it will go.

[Papa Palps]

So I'm working through my second Ascendancy game, and for both of them I've just been using the default normal for everything (research speed, culture spread, the lot). I am interested in changing these up for my next games, but wanted to know if anyone had settings that they prefer when it comes to this.

On the 184-planet map, setting fleet size to large is really a must.  I know because I played through about 6 hours of the match before fights got really tedious when my fleet became very spread thin.