eveningsky339

From what I've heard, evil civs get some pretty nice military bonuses, but they're more prone to get ganged up on by the other civs. Good civs get a defense bo.nus and have an easier time making alliances, plus it's easier for them to rally others to their cause should they be attacked. (This happened to me once, actually... I was playing as the Korath, and I decided to attack an ethically weak civ that was "good." The entire universe turned on me.) Neutral civs have nothing bad, but

Yeah, that must be it. I find the whole instantaneous colonization thing a bit odd... "Okay, it took us seventeen weeks to reach this class 2 planet, now let's build a cit- whoa, wow, that was fast..." INSTANT COLONIES: Just add water!

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If you can afford all those Nano Rippers and your enemy ships don't have one heck of an armor selection... They are really good weapons, but I find that weapon variation is generally the key to success. Especially missile weapons... they are bulky and take a long time to research, but I have seen relatively few missile defense systems on enemy ships compared to shields and armor.

I've been having this problem for... uh... well it seems like forever, but I haven't always had it. Basically, when I talk to a race with a 'minor' race portrait, the portrait is stretched wide, except when it is shown during the United Planets. Here's an example of what I'm talking about... Notice how our usually thin Thalan offshoot friend has gained a few pounds. I'm not sur

I once had something crazy like that happen. There was apparently a complicated system of alliances and there was a pretty big arms race going on between the Korath and the Iconians. Eventually a disgruntled miner from the Iso Congregation (custom race) shot the leader of the Korath, so the Korath delcared war. The Iconians were allied with the Iso Congregation, so they delcared war back, and from then on it was like dominoes. The Altarians came to my aide because we shared a similar ethical