A new TDM game test.

[Master Belisarius]

I have started a new game with all the TDM races + the Vikings (hey, considering the great job that Rollo did, I can't exclude them!).

Game settings:
Large galaxy.
3 Starting planets
No Black Holes
No ruins
Can view all the scores.
All the others options, standard.

Races: Praetorians, Earth Alliance, Rage, Aquilaeian, Orks, Pyrochette, Vaxin, Vikings, Drakol, Piundon, Romulan (me but with all the ministers on).

I'll write some notes, every 30 turns... and if somebody have an special question about one race, only let me know.

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TURN 30.
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Romulan: War with Orks. T&R with Praetorians. They have started ok, attacking the Orks starting planets but only with frigates. After the turn 25, the Orks sent a counter-attack and damaged badly 2 Romulan starting planets. Anyway, ,they’re in the 7th position.

Praetorian: MA with Orks, Trade with Aquilaeian, T&R with Romulan. They colonize everywhere and everybody love them!

Orks: MA with Praetorian, Trade with Vaxin and Pyrochette, War with Romulan. Maybe because they did contact with the Romulan early in the game, but they have a very low colonization rate (excluding the starting planets, they colonized only 1 planet until the turn 30, and never lost a colony).

Vikings: Trade with Piundon. None with Drakol. War with Rage and Aquilaeian.
They have started in the center of the galaxy... and this was a problem, considering that have some aggresive neighbors.

Earth Alliance: War with Drakol. Trade with Rage. They have finished all the projects. Mephisto, honestly I believe that you sholud reconsider to have more than two research projects in the queue... Anyway, they’re doing a very good job with their fighters.

Vaxin: Trade alliance with the Orks (but they’re Angry!). None with Pyrochette (and they rejected a Vaxin’s treaty proposal). They have not many worlds availables to colonize, and then, believe that will have problems to grow.

Rage: as usual, this guys alway are looking for problems! They’re at war with the Piundon and with the Vikings. Trade Alliance with EA. Have all their planets protected with a lot of Weapon Platforms.

Aquilaeian: They’re at War with the Vikings, but they’re far away one of each other... then, I believe that will sign a peace treaty at some moment. Trade alliance with Praetorians.

Pyrochette: Trade Alliance with the Orks. None with Vaxin (but believe that the war will come soon...). They have started in the right bottom corner, and then, had not problems to colonize the nearest systems.

Drakol: War with EA. None with Vikings. Their colonization rate looks a bit slow (because they have several breathable planets into their systems without colonize), but also, they have tons and tons of satellites protecting their planets.

Piundon: Trade with Vikings. War with Rage. They are neighbors of the Rage, but they’re doing a good work. They could have problems to find more planets to colonize.