I think Korath are one of the races that can easily pull off zero year wins in the hand of an expert.

Have look at the latest discussion in the MVL thread, there were examples about launching spore ships on turn 15 (or something like that) - quite unstoppable if you know what you're doing.

I used them in my last game (which is nearly finished). Those spore ships are luvverly!

Don't have to worry about using up population to fight the invasions... all those people can go to getting invaded planets up and running quickly.

Nice!

Franbo


That said... I don't play in the metaverse...

What are your suggestion for the bonus points and initial research? Concentrate on military and push Research points to get a quick technological boost over other civs? I intuitively would give diplomacy a lesser priority. Which other bonuses would you suggest? Maybe you can give me a sample of point distribution appropriate to the Korath.

Depending on tech speed setting the Korath can have spore ships anywhere from turn 4 to turn 7.

The Korath are great. The biggest question is how big of a map are you playing on?

On medium and smaller size maps you don't need to do much else than kill everything. Your base bonus spread is high, so go for +tech and then either +morale/econ/pop growth or +speed. Start the game by going impulse/sensors if you have a lot of anomolies, or sporeships/impulse if you don't. Then just start kicking out spore ships and conquering everything.

On larger galaxies you are going to probably have one or two legitimate threats you can't just rush. In this case you need max +pop growth and at least +10% morale. You need this because AFTER you spore each world you are given a very few free colonists, and you need them to breed quickly to pay for the upkeep costs of those colonies you knock out.

As you spore more, you should eventually think about advanced toxic worlds to get the most out of your spore'd planet tiles. With the Korath you want to ignore soldiering completely, but in DA advanced govs aren't a bad investment because of the increased economy.

If the game happens to last long enough, xeno ethics is another super high priority with the Korath. Harmony crystals will help those struggling small populations, and the mind control center, psionic beams and artificial slave center will allow you to continue to roll with your spore fleets at frightening pace.

On balance, the Korath are I think the second strongest race in the game, just slightly behind the Krynn. I while back I ran a couple of tournaments, and both of those races did really well.

Hope that helps,
~ Wyndstar

I dont know if its representative - if i understand the system correctly, then only the sum of scores of one race was compared. If more players used one race than another it would result in higher score for that race. That does not necessarily mean this race is better - it just means it is more popular. Maybe one should use averaged scores of races to get a representative picture?

Hi!

The reason on my side is Korath are too easy. Since AIs can't defend their planets properly, the victoy is just a matter of removing defenders from planets and "sporing" them. Repeat that enough times and you win.   

BR, Iztok

The last time I used spore in a large+ galaxy setting, I was playing a good-aligned custom race. (Aliens don't have to base their concepts of good and evil on the sensibilities of Terran western civilization, after all...)

I had almost no econ problems because a) I started building transports to ferry population fairly early in the war and I only spored key planets (PQ 10+) and left the fully-populated smaller worlds in between to culture flip to me later.

This won't work with evil civs, unfortunately, because once you build the Mind Control Center (MCC), it becomes almost impossible to culture flip other worlds.

I'm a Korath fan. More and more I am using them of late. I always favor bad guys in games but what do I know?

I typically judge how effective a race design is by seeing how the AI fares wtih it. I can say that I don't play anything below crippling level anymore. I typically judge the empires which can survive the longest as good designs. That said the Korath are a race I have learned to eliminate quickly if possible or to appease if I cannot. When you combine their attack bonus with the spore tech, they are a major pain to deal with.

Hidar

that's the same reason i use them!

I agree.

The fact that I will gladly restart any game with the Korath shows my opinion of them. Easy almost to the point of cheese.

Korath? Ph-shaw.

Welcome to the world of ARC(advanced race customization). Try Super Annihilator with the Yor or Thalan.