Yeah, taking points in construction and taking Hardy Industrialists is the only situation that I would take HI.
If we do the tech thing, maybe we could have everyone be randomly assigned a tech. (I'm sure one of the PBW admins would do this for us.) This, of course, only works if we have a small enough # of people.
Don't worry about me, I always use racial techs, in fact I build my races around 'em (I think racial techs are one of SE4's biggest strengths, in fact)
-- Z.
ruler of the happy fun schizophrenic psycho people
"You're *sad animals*, do you want to *spread the wax*?"
What would people say to reducing the score display from all to allied (or even 'none')?
I always find it a little unrealistic to show total score (because people can draw conclusions about your offensive/defensive capabilities too easily from the # of ships/units/planets/systems etc)
Planetary space yards are just so much better than orbital ones. Build a space yard on every planet with 3 or more facility slots, and you wont be missing the orbital yards. I forgot to mention the Construction bonus too. Nothing beats a planet with a base 45% bonus to its construction rate.