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I've been playing around with a custom civ that combines the Drath tech tree with the Terran super (diplomat)...and Korx ship design, just for kicks. This has led me to two questions. 1) diplomat makes your civ more skilled with negotiation, right? I'd think that would include negotiations to go to war. Is diplomat less effective than manipulator (or not effective at all) at getting other races to go to war? 2) The Drath tree has been treating me pretty well.

I'm rather a galciv noob, and am just curious...what does the race icon indicate in a player's forum posts? That is, the one among all the other lil' icons at the bottom. At first I thought it was the player's race of choice, but for me it's displayed races that I've never actually played as in a metaverse game. Anyway, ty.

well, in that case, what does '75% of total galactic influence' entail? I thought it meant that your sphere of influence had to encompass 75% of the map, but is that inaccurate?

Ok, so after a long hietas, I'm playing galciv again, slowly ratcheting up the difficulty. Last game, however, I decided to mix things up and, rather than go for my accustomed alliance victory, try for a cultural. However, things did not go smoothly. As it turned out, I rapidly maxed out my number of starbases taking up space in 'unclaimed' sectors to increase my influence sphere, and was unable to start focusing on the more challenging influence areas without sacrificing these