[JimMorrison]

I have played innumerable SP starts (to turn 10 or 20ish) to test out different starting strategies with a VAST (nearly complete) range of nations and pretenders. In nearly every game, I start by prophetizing the initial commander, and setting him to Smitex5 for my initial expansion.

As far as that goes for "testing", I have noticed absolutely no correlation between being a prophet, or using smite to get mass kills, in what traits I get. Now, it is true, I am often jumping from nation to nation, to see how a certain factor affects them, but I also often play one nation 10x in a row to try to maximize the initial growth, and there is no strong correlation.

The only thing that I have noticed, is that I get the "common" traits more often, specifically the ones I see most on starting prophets are - Endurance, Battle Prowess, Strength, and Tough Skin.


A side note on that rough sketch of rarity, I personally see Toughness FAR more often than Obesity, which I barely see any more often than the really rare ones. Someone's theory above was that the combo traits give more total than the individual, so Obesity would be less common since it is Toughness + Strength, and gains maybe 60-65% as fast in both, as one would get if it were the single version.