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I am not a Guru but have played for several weeks at maximum player difficulty and medium bonus. It was better but still not great. My current game I am playing at max player difficulty and max bonus. Whew it is a different game. I will not say impossible but I am in 4th place with 1.2 M points and the first place race has 2.4 M Points. I have gained slightly but I just hope I can conquer a few other races before I run into 1-3 again (I had to close warp points as early on I ran into numero no).

Again I am not a Guru but it appears that the computer players are given a higher level tech start and included in this for the advanced races is the ability to colonize all 3 types of planets. The top races also colonize everything. This is definitely not a slam-dunk.