What are the characteristics of your favorite race?

[Chronon]

Thanks for the clarification on AST, everyone. It certainly does sound useful.

I do agree with you, SP and CapnQ, about roleplaying races. There are always gamers who will do their share of 'min-maxing' (see the "gamey tactics" thread on this forum), and I don't see this as unfair, or bad. It's just part of the game. But I, like you, think it's more fun to set up the racial characteristics to reflect the type of being(s) that one is playing. I don't think these are mutually exclusive, though. Why not play a race that role plays well, AND is competitive on PBW?

[Zarix]

Natural Merchants, intelligence and maintenance. I almost always use a few points on those but everything else depends on game settings.

[Fyron]

Natural Merchants lost some of its punch when planets went from up to 14 facilities in SE3 to 25 in SE4. That 1 Spaceport only takes 3 turns to build (instead of 10 in se3). IMO, Natural Merchants is not worth as much as something like Advanced Storage Techniques.

[Fyron]

I like Psychic and Organic races.

[Chronon]

Fyron, I have played organic, and I understand its advantages. But I have no experience with psychic. What are its main good points?