What Race Do You Play The Most?

[Taera]

Though i used to play solely with my 2 own races lately i've been playing original races and found them quite the nice. two of my most favorite races are the Sallega and Amon'krie. Sallega mostly, i realy do like their style. i dont usualy play with user-made races, i prefer to play *against* them

[Baron Grazic]

In the past I liked the EEEvil race the most, but at the moment the Lego Ship Set has my attention. Reminds me of boyhood days when I'd spent 10 hours a day having lego space fights.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Baron Grazic:
In the past I liked the EEEvil race the most, but at the moment the Lego Ship Set has my attention. Reminds me of boyhood days when I'd spent 10 hours a day having lego space fights.

Just a quick statement, Lego space fights were the best! I loved those days...

Now back to your topic...

[dogscoff]

Yeah, lego rocks. Kid's shouldn't be forced to go to school, they should be allowed to play with Lego all day instead. I think we'd get a lot more intelligent, well balanced adults that way. Sort of. Why am I posting here?

Oh yeah, For multiplayer it just has to be one of my own shipsets, but single play I tend to play a different race every time I play. I often use the Praetorian just to stop the boring little sods coming up as an opponent. I used to do the same thing for the Phong but when you're transferring population you can't read the numbers against their yellow skin. Last few games I've played I've been the Rage. I figure I'm playing Proportions so their killer AI isn't much use, and i may as well be them while I can.

BTW, in this solo proportions game I am nearly 300 turns in and I still haven't made first contact with a single race!

[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.