[Will]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Wow... think of how much RESEARCH he's got to generate to get all those techs so he can sell them. He's got to survive for a very long time on sheer diplomacy. A very interesting challenge. It would probably be impossible in a game with any major AI powers. The AI would just blithely colonize and grow all over you unless you fought with them, and then you'd be inferior for a long time and probably unable to stop them. Early contact would be a death sentence.

A while ago, I played a game with all five racials... It was a few months before SJ added all the racial-crossover components (ie, Drop Troop for Religious/Organic) in P&N, not sure exactly when that was. Low tech start, High # of AIs, High Difficulty, High Bonus. All I really had to do was barricade the two systems adjacent to my home system, colonize all three, and start researching. I think I stopped playing at around turn 200, because I had something like 75 fully developed systems, and the two remaining AI had 5 total systems between them. It got boring

But I do believe the Temporal/Organic combo is my favorite for balancing racial points and bonuses in other areas. Not only are there the super-fast builds, but the fighters are killers. Combine small Time Distortion Bursts and small Electric Discharges on a design... if you put the TDBs before the EDs, all the TDBs in a stack will fire, either stripping shields or taking out a good chunk of 'em. Then the EDs fire, which is quite deadly if the TDBs took out the shields