I don't see the point of having factions that are so easy to play it barely is a game at all in the game. Eventually, they will need to iron it out or SiS will be a sidenote, which it doesn't deserve to be.
Don't know what difficulty level you where playing at, but in my experience colony ships ...

I think one major issue with research as it is, is that it is too easy too just aim for the honeypot straight out the gate, overfocusing on a particular technology chain to get there as soon as possible. Some obfuscation or uncertainty could probably be added to the tech development.

I don't see the point of having factions that are so easy to play it barely is a game at all in the game. Eventually, they will need to iron it out or SiS will be a sidenote, which it doesn't deserve to be.

Eventually, they will have to be. Anyways, at the moment, playing the Ashdar Imperials in this situation is not very interesting unless you like complete pushover games.

Yes...so perhaps the player should not have access to it either? At least not in the way they work now?

Hi there. First time post, trying to provide some feedback. I only have a few games under my belt, but it seems to me to be a few things that need ironing out. One of them is Ashdar Imperials on Sparse maps. See attached file. This is either normal or difficult - it was my second game that I only ...