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Is anyone else concerned about the Korx abilities (start with all trade techs)? I can see what will happen - they will trade them all away ultra quickly and we will end up with EVERY race having all trade techs rather too soon. I think a better ability would be that their trade ships cannot be attacked (like the galactic wonder) and/or that their trade routes are not destroyed when at war, but only receive half income. It fits in with their background story (I remember written in one of the back

I've also had that PC-Cillin warning come up with this website. But it has for lots of other wierd ones too (such as when I'm reading my email). In fact, it even stopped me posting on here for some time. I don't think there's anything to it, just PC-Cillin being panicky. PC-Cillin sucks.

The Korx. It's just so much fun playing as evil capitalists. Usually go universalists so you get more evil colonization choices (luck).

I always play as the Korx, and usually stick with evil. The special weapons and galactic wonders sway it for me. I believe that with evil you will probably save more money anyway than you will gain through the additional 3 routes (starbase upgrade fees gone, plus if you get the wonder that allows free ground invasion techniques). Just watch out if you start next to the Altarians or those damn space Cockroach Torians.

I agree with JanuHull, minor races in BotF were very well designed. Even though not all the minor race ships were that great, it was heaps of fun just trying to collect them all. I would but a GalCiv2 Expansion pack that focused purely on minor races with no other changes at all (but heroes would be good ) there is much more that could be done with them, such as getting them to join your empire peacefull

I think the addition of heroes in an expansion pack would be the single most awesome thing Stardock could do with GalCiv2. Definately want to see them before GalCiv3. Think of the possibilities for missions - you could have a regicide style mission like in Civ4, it would bring great variety to campaign missions. You could even have a hero style spy, with a big spy bonus who can undertake special missions.