[quote]Originally posted by TerranC:
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		| Natural Merchants allow four advantages: *it allows you to set up resources producing colonies quicker than others
 *1 more facility space (or in your case, 3 more spaces)
 *Hard to blockade
 *Allows other facilities to be built in the time it would normally take a space port to build.
 
 IMHO, those advantages should cost about 1250 racial points.
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 I'm still not buying it.  While your points are valid, they seem like small potatoes.