I think they way trade is set up now kind of hinders the Korx, If they could use your trade abilities to the max using the DA trade income, they would be a force to be reckoned with.

I know what you mean. In my present game (recently started, not much happening,, expansion phase just kicking in)the Korx just surrendered to the Thalan (like they ever need help getting more planets). The Torians are on one side of my glorious empire and the Korx were on the other side, for one to get to the other they would have to traverse through me. The Torians declared war on the Korx, around ten rounds later the Korx fold, the Torians were just too much for them. Not one ship from either side passed through me from either side. Apparently to beat the Korx all you have to do is say BOOOOO!!!! I have decided from now on I will declare war on them the minute I see them and hope they surrender before they acquire any planets to give away to races that already have more than they deserve.

Man you should see the Korx in my games, make the Drengi, Korath, and Dread Lords look like cupcakes. Usually last race to fold in my games and like to be sneaky little sobs as well, kept pushing the drengi to attack me, all the while keeping our relations at warm. Now its kill on sight the minute they start acting hinkey.

Iconians I have not observed too much of a problem with. I suppose that they are not frequently major players, but I did see them be strongest once, and they have had important roles occasionally. Certainly better than the Korx, anyway. The Korx I can't really figure out why they are so bad in games. Their abilities are decent, they have no major handicaps that I can think of, and yet they do absolutely terrible in almost every game. It's such a shame, they are an interesting race and trade as a strategy is fun. Has anyone see how the Korx do in late game? (they never get that far in my games).

I beg to differ, the Korx actually take advantage of availability of resources more then the other races. They literally, in all the games I've played with them, have their priorities well set.

These are the things I've observed about the Korx in contrast to the other races while playing on levels Masochistic to Suicidal.
-They research advanced weapons first, thus seeing 26 beam Korx fighters by August, year 0 is the norm.
-They build up their planets first.
-They have high popularity.
-Better economy, both in theory and practice.
-They colonize far more worlds then other races.

I classify them as a relatively strong opponent and rarely pick them as such so as to avoid having to pick the Thalans in the set opponent numbers of the MVL rounds.

I usually see the Korx get wiped out by mid-game, or be restricted to a very small area. I'm doing pretty well as the Korx myself, but I took the full trade bonus with Mercantile government. I think that's 'in character'. Maybe the next game, the AI will do better with those picks.

I don't have TA yet, but in first two games DL and DA, a lot of the time I declared war on the Korx and they surrendered between one week and five weeks . My friend was playing DA, he declared war on the Korx, who were on the other side of the galaxy, and in one click, they surrendered. So, I do agree with you, the Korx suck!

True enough the Korx are next to useless. I've played quiet a few games with them and all times they have been one of the first 3 to die. so after a while I went into the XML document and Permanently changed their states. At the moment they are a notch behind most races, much like the Iconians (their there in their own corner of the universe and never seem to want to die). The most embarrassing part was the the Korx once defeated the Dread Lords before I did. I was most upset about that.

 

I've had this odd surrender behavior in TA as well.  The Korx, despite having a generally healthy empire, will just surrender if a war is declared on them.  At the same time, I've had a few games where they were a healthy threat.  I think the surrender behavior may be related to a failure to develop weapons systems early enough, but I've not analyzed anything.

I too have had the Korx wimp out several times, but at least in my game it seems pretty random as to if they'll be strong or weak. I would split it at about 40/60 in my games (40 being the liklihood that they'll dominate; 60 being that they'll suck). From what I've observed in my games, when the Korx suck, they REALLY SUCK. However, when the Korx don't suck, they seem to be undefeatable.

I know this sounds crazy because by the looks of things, at least for the majority of you guys, the Korx always play terrible. But in one of my games, I had the difficulty on Tough (not an MV game), and the Korx just dominated me. It was on a 9 opponent Large map, and at the end of Year 1 the Korx had researched up to the 4th level of miniaturization (Ultimate???) and had over half of the Beam Weapons line researched, plus a good chunk out of Diplomacy, too.

BTW - this game was on TA version 2.02.

After January of the 2nd Year, the Korx had gone and invaded the Thalan Empire(!!!), AND, they won the war in under 2 months! The Thalan, as we probably all know, are one of the quickest races to expand, and, in my game, they were ranked towards the top in Militay and Industry. I thought this was crazy, but then when the Altarian Resistance got attacked by the Drengin in April, the little screen that pops up for all of the races that come to the Altarian's aid because of Super Organizer had the Korx declaring war on the Drengin due to similiar ethical standings with the Altarians, who are almost always Good.

In the end, the Korx won the game on account of Military Conquest (yeah, I lost). It took them only 4 Years and 3 Months to win. That's pushing it even for me. Long story short, I think the Korx either will be terrible, or they will hit the jackpot on how they distribute their bonuses at the start of the game. You guys are pretty much right, though - the Korx do tend to suck more then most other races.

Korx are kicking butt in my present game. 2nd most colonies and most powerful military.  You want to see a race that's completely trash?  The Drengin never expand beyond Drengi and Kona in my games. Ever.  A sad turnabout from GalCivI days where they were always dominant.  Sure, they're military is great, but what can you do with 2 colonies when the other guy has 20?

Anyway, I find it a mixed bag with the Korx, but they tend to do fairly well under my galaxy conditions.