Traits like Repulsive or Charismatic doesn't matter if Overcome some of your penalty picks and/or boost your civilization withĬolonists that has racial bonuses. Additionally you can attack someĮarly in the game, enabling you to conquer their colonists and possibly You want to stay at peace with for a while. Trade, spy or demand techs, and create trade and research agreements for AIs First of all, the AIs may fight between each other, and secondly, On a huge map with a slow start, playing against many opponents might be anĪdvantage. You can reach any part of the tech tree, so this challenge will be played in To stay alive until you are ready to strike,you can finish the game fast andįairly easy taking advantage of bad combat tactics. Small galaxy might be considered the hardest option.

Staying alive until you have proper defense in place. Starting pre-warp with a -10 race, in a small galaxy you will have issues Starting pre-warp, the AIs get the longest time to takeĪdvantage of their impossible bonuses before you are ready to attack them.Īdditionally, I think that is more fun, as you get to control the game from Opponents without producing or teching anything, just taking advantage of badĪI combat tactics. Galaxy, where you can just refit your ships immediately and take out the Starting point, and that makes the game a lot easier. With an advanced start, you have managed to keep up with the AI up until the

Ship design and tacticalĬombat are fun parts of the game though, so I wan't to keep it in, and rather

Of bad AI ship design and combat tactics to win. Playing without tactical combat is a lot harder as you can't take advantage It is possible toĬreate rules to make the game even harder, but I want to keep the fun parts of The table below lists the various rules of this challenge. The challenge rules Choosing what racial penalties to take Various race suggestions -Growth, -Food, -Industry -Growth, -Food, -Spy -Food, -Production, -Ship Attack, -Ground Combat Low-G, -Food, -Ground Combat Repulsive, -Ship Attack, -Ground Combat Worst possible pick? Challenge games played Low-G/Food/Ship Defense Food/Industry/Ship Attack/Ground Combat Food/Industry/Research/Poor Home World/Cybernetics The challenge rules Going to be? This document describes the -10 challenge, where you have to useĪ custom race with -10 worth of penalties but no positive abilities. Playing one of the non-optimal standard races. After learning the game mechanics, beating impossible isn't that hard, even if

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