Korgath don't have a negative starting attribute. They also start with an innate +25 Moral Bonus so with the first tech you research, they are at +35% Moral already. Which means you can live very comfortably at 49% tax rate and still have 100% spending.

My colonies just get 2 slave factories and the recruitment center and then I just leave them there unless there are significant 300% bonus tiles.

Consider how cheap slave factories are. Traditional Factories are 3BC for 4 Industry. While Basic Slave Pit are 1BC for 3 Industry.

This adds up, maybe here is the main cause of why the Korgath never run into a major deficit, but Pop Growth factors in later. The Slave Imagination Center are also cheap. 2 BC for 4 Research Points while a Research Lab is 5 BC for 6 Research Points.


A Korgath Player has to use more tiles to end up with better bonuses early, but he is expanding fast enough that he can afford it. I think it just adds too many advantages together.

To be honest, I've played with the Korath a bit and I didn't even notice that the farms gave pop. bonuses to the Korath but that other races lacked that advantage. Netherless, it's still very rare that I will get to the farm techs before the dreaded expansion crash usually happens anyway. Without the farms, your looking at most a 10% bonus to population growth, and that's only assuming that the other races don't decide to go for their own fertility acceleration techs. What settings are you running on, I usually do large maps, maybe on gig. or immense the difference would be more pronounced maybe?


Actually, it's because of the morale boost early on that the Korath don't have as a tough time early in the game, not because of pop. growth which is nearly the same as any other race early on at least. As I said though, the morale advantage lessens as the game goes on anyway, mostly because they can't build any morale boosting trade goods except for harmony crystals and the the weakness of their morale boosting improvements.

The Korath get production for alot cheaper than almost every other race aside from the Drengin, but they get less of it and their economic buildings aren't as powerful. I consider it on of the races strengths that makes them fun to play and ties in nicely with their persona.

Than there are the definite weaknesses in the Korath tech tree. They don't have counter-espionage, their research is pretty weak, they don't have planetary defenses and they don't have full trade techs. For that matter, they can't even get full armor or point defense techs for their ships. They also can't really extract very much from resource starbases, although this might be changed I wouldn't be surprised if they were still nerfed an extraction resource tech or two.

For the most part, I think the Korath are a well balanced race and I like playing them. There are other races that are definitely harder to play than the Korath, but I would rather see the abilities of the other races brought up to the level where they are a match to the Korath rather than the Korath being nerfed to make everyone just as weak as the least playable race.

Honestly, if I wanted to play a race with pop. growth penalties I'd play the Drath. If I wanted expensive factories there are plenty of other races I would rather play instead. I like the Korath because they are badass and unique, while still being somewhat flexible.

If it is really felt that the Korath are too powerful, at least give them a different disadvantage than everyone else has. I think in their case, a trade income penalty would be the most appropiate unique penalty you could give the Korath imho.