Race experience
 

Anyone know what small bonuses this is supposed to give you? I was suprised to see that in the Q/A section on Malfador's website. I almost expected experience to hurt you, just to even things out against those new players. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif

Re: Race experience
 

Well it used to have a big effect but it was a bug and got patched away http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif. If you used population bonuses in race creation every time you used that race the population bounus added itself again. I though at the time that was the experience bonus. Since the bug in ship designs is present in this Version I haven't saved an empire at the end of a game and tried it. Once the patch comes out and hopefully fixes that bug I will try it and see if I can find an effect.

[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 15 February 2001).]

Re: Race experience
 

No effect so far, but it would be nice if we would get 1 racial point for every 1000 experience points. That earned points could be later assigned in the edit screen before the new game.
To make game tougher we could make several kick-*** ancient empires (by playing countless hours http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif) that have lots of points and assign them to AI control, and we would take a newborn empire. Or we could exchange empires .emp files so we can play with/against more advanced empires other people made.