[Suicide Junkie]

I had a bunch of good ideas while posting in the Nomadic Thread.

It would be possible to force the race to live without planetary support, by preventing colonization tech, and minimizing the returns from planets. With zero maintenance, they can survive without a planet, and grow by capturing ships and tech.

In fact, they'd be very virus/borg-like, assimilating all they can, and then upgrading the ships to capture more ships.

In fact, if you give them zero maintenance, then they do have a chance to win the game.

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As soon as exams are over, I'm gonna design a race like that, 0 maintenance, and max negative planetary traits, with no colonization tech allowed.

You'll start with a planet, and use that to build SYS's which will hide out from the AI, and scavenge crippled ships for survival.

Underdog victories, with a hint of desperation, and tons of sneakiness, oh Yeah!