Playing as the Yor Immmense scattered abundant everything. Tech and ascension victories off. Tech trading off. 9 Ai all intelligent... Terran, Drengin, Drath, Krynn, Torian, Korx, Altarian, Arcean and Iconian. Still playing but here are my observations.
Korx died really quickly... lightning fast... didn't even meet em...
Altarian and Arcean were really weak. Didn't expand much at all before getting killed. Arceans never had more than 10 planets out of 500 and Altarians never had more than 20...
Drath were slow off the start too and probably only survived because they bordered me and didn't go after me. They are actually doing pretty well now.
Iconians were killed by 3 unallied players going after them. They folded like a cheap suit and had over 30 planets when surrendering (heck the Drath were attacking and they DOUBLED their holdings when the Iconians surrendered to them. Almost David/Goliath like)
Drengin are kept alive by super dominator trait but they are really one bit players and will probably get culture stomped by the terrans as they have been the whole game.
Terrans were the big colonization winners with over 170 planets and they researched NO military tech nor did they go to war until the Drengin declared. Then they came out of the gate like mad.
Krynn are doing really well.. Over 100 planets with the paper strongest military.
Torians were doing incredible until they picked a fight with me... Now they aren't doing so hot... The 'weak research' in their blurb is totally wrong though since I've stolen +30% in global research bonus techs...
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There are two big issues though that need to be addressed. First is the Yor super ability which really needs to be made into a percentage. Sure the ai only builds 4-6 speed stuff anyway but the three cap is too much for big maps.
Second (and much more concerning to me) is the empty planets. The Terrans have 170+ planets and 75% have NOTHING built. Same with the Krynn and the Torians (and also everyone else to varying extents). Thier economies can obviously handle it since in a ship trade I noted one time the terrans had 50k in the bank and were making 7k a turn... Ai no matter what should at least get a basic factory up on every planet... Heck when the arceans surrendered to me it was 3 years into the game and Arcea wasn't half filled!
