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[quote] As a side note, maybe unique techs should be tradeable only by the race who originates the tech. I play as the Arceans, I can pick and choose to trade Weather Control with my allies, but they can't turn around and trade it to my enemies, because I originated the technology. Not realistic perhaps, but trade goods are already like this, and it would certainly make things more interesting. Befriend the arceans to get weather control, or just

I think the Arceans have a bonus to creativity in one of their techs, but I'm not sure about that. I just remember someone getting creativity from the research tree. It still strikes me as something that shouldn't happen, "aha!" middle-of-the-night inspirations aside. It's a stat that's always in effect and groundbreaking achievements dont happen every day, every month or every year. Why would there be research funding if I can just rely on the off-chance that I'll get it for free anywa

I hope this is the right place to post this, but anyway I noticed a strange bug while playing Altarian with high research and the creativity skill. I usually play every game with very slow techs and I just sit back and research all the stuff I'm interested in while everyone else does their thing. Every time I do this, I get into a huge deficit and everything slows down for awhile while I try to make money again. Well, I noticed that if you have a high creativity, you have a chance of re

Cool, thanks.

Does the arrival of the Dread Lords classify as a Mega Event? I'm assuming the hundreds of pirates spawning is a mega event, but I didn't know if the Dread Lords was - I like having them around, but hate the pirates so I wanted to know if I could turn off mega events safely and still see them. And also, what other things are mega events? The faction that spawns mid game and takes a few planets from everyone? Discoveries on planets? Every once in awhile I see something completely new and

[quote] Yeah for some reason they are weak at research yet they created one of the most powerful races. Also a creative bonus wouldnt hurt. [/quote] Yeah, good call. I had forgotten about that. It does seem strange that they created the Yor, but don't have anything to show for it. I would think they would be one of the leading researchers, but Altarians strangely have that honor (I'm not sure why, they seem more like Greenpeace to me).

[quote] I'd like to know what the rationale behind this is too. I'd also really like to know why it's impossible in a lot of cases to make a custom race that's as powerful bonus-wise as many of the starter races. (My xml coding doesn't count ) [/quote] You know, I was wondering about this for awhile to, but

Oh, and I think there are only 4 races that start with less than 10 pts to spend. I know the Krynn (9), Refuge (7) and Torian (8) are the first 3, but I forgot the last one. All other races start with 10.

I was just wondering why the Torian and Iconian Refuge (arguably the least powerful civs) have the fewest points of all the races to distribute on extra abilities - while many of the civs with incredible bonuses (krynn and Yor come to mind) are given more points overall. Maybe its not really a balancing thing more than it is a game history thing, but it seems to me that every race should at least have the initial 10 points to spend on extra skills - or at least give the weakest races a