Compared to the other civs I've tried, the Drath are just a cakewalk. I tried them out (getting back into the game, I never played the pre-set races before) in a few games and quickly got their gist.

- They have very high diplomacy both innately and from quickly gotten tech so you can get what you want from other civs much easier than otherwise and they will also attack you less.

- Ridiculous revenue from other races being at war which is what makes them so seemingly overpowered. I make other races go to war as soon as possible and routinely have taxes set to 0% after a point because I don't need any tax revenue - I get so ridiculously much money just from manipulating everyone into wars and I can then use fractions of that to make the AIs get into new wars should they decide to make peace, keeping my ''economy'' rolling... instead of complementing my economy, war profiteering is my economy. You are forgiven for thinking that this makes the Drath ''economy'' unreliable as consistently having everyone at war is cheap and easy, even in hypothetical periods of peace your stockpile of cash is massive so you don't need to worry about running out of money at all.

- Because of not needing economic buildings you have so many more tiles available for factories and research, this means that the war profiteering in practice becomes more than an economic bonus - it's a huge industrial advantage.

 It can't just be me thinking that the Drath Legion is pretty much playing the game by different rules than the other civs? they seem really overpowered to me. As if it isn't enough that you can make your rivals destroy each other for you, the very act of doing so gives you absurd income which has the side-effect of making your industry much stronger! What do you think about them? how would you rank the races?



I mean I tried a game as custom race Arcean tech tree now, and it's just so different. The Arceans actually have to make economic buildings. They can't rely on massive diplomacy bonuses to keep enemies off them while they power up, or attacking each other instead of you. I haven't even commented on the Drath's huge soldiering bonus either!