What Race Do You Play The Most?

[Fyron]

You do realize that a low-tech scout can cover nearly the entire galaxy with efficient engines, right?

[dogscoff]

You do realize that a low-tech scout can cover nearly the entire galaxy with efficient engines, right?

Not in this game. Well, not without a warp point opener anyway=-) I started with just 2 systems and 4 colonisable planets available to me (three of them moons). I researched stellar manip, started destroying/ rebuilding planets to get more real estate and then I built a warp opener. This must be around turn 50 by now=-)

I opened a WP into the next group of connected systems and found it uninhabited. Plenty of stuff to colonise mind you, but then I went bankrupt. My stellar manip fleet had used up all my radioactives, so I had to mothball almost everything and spend 50 turns or so getting my economy back under control. It took me another 50 turns to save up the 100,000 rads needed to unmothball my stellar manip ships.

I eventually did and now i can now run the two stellar manip ships and a few colonisers and a small population mover fleet. I've expanded into and explored half a dozen sytstem Groups and still haven't found any other players.

I have a dozen or so low-population worlds with major cities and metropoliseseses but a very tight economy and really sucky weapons tech. I'm hoping that when I do finally meet up with other species they will have weapons tech and economies way in advance of mine and will be able to give me a good run for my money=-)

I realise that there are loads of ways I could have plyed more efficiently but I'm taking it slow and enjoying myself. I'm half tempted to post a savegame of my first first contact as a scenario...

[ October 04, 2002, 11:41: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[Arkcon]

I often play as a Terran. I guess I identify with them. I think a newbie should play the Terrans -- in addition to the green dots, you have the reinforcement of the planets looking like oxygen to let you know what to colonize.

The race portrait is kind ugly 'tho. The best looking race portrait is prob. the Jarenar, I like being them as well for that reason.

[Elowan]

I started out by playing the Terrans but I hated the race picture so I substituted the one from neo-Canadians (I think). Then I made my own race called the Antarans (no - not the same a--h---s from MOO2) based loosely on the Terran AI but with a new picture.

Since then I have changed almost all of the race pictures deciding that they were the most godawful things I'd ever seen - except for the Jranaer which aren't so bad.

[kalthalior]

The stock race I play the most is the Sallega, with Ukratel probably next. Play the Krill once in a while as well. TDM races I play the most are the Klingons, the Earth Alliance, the Romulans, the Colonials and the Narns.
As you can see, I don't finish many games.

[capnq]

For solo games, I usually play a different race for each game I start. For PBW, I usually play a custom race; the shipsets I've used the most often are the Zedron Empire and the Sharlon Kingdom.

[Tenryu]

I use the Neo-Canadian shipset, mostly and make my own race.