Yeah, I usually take one click out of everything, except whatever the race is poor in, if anything, and then put those additional clicks into Computers, to speed computers along a little faster.
On another note, I just played a game on Harder Xilimi and that was pretty crazy. The Mrrshan started wiping out AIs. The Darloks were next to me but got screwed on planets, as they had one world and two irradiated next to them and then the next closest planet was like 7 parsecs away.
I was able to expand like crazy (I was Klackon) and I took like 15 planets, while the Darloks had 2. Yet, the Darloks led the game in Tech all game long, even when they had contact with only me and one other race that was way behind them. So I'm not sure what was going on. Yeah, as I was expanding my research wasn't amazing, but I kept it up and usually had at least 300 BC in research early on and then as planets started to complete I was hitting 4K research by turn 100 and the Darloks still had only 2 planets, yet they were out researching me, having lots of techs I didn't have, and they only had contact with one other race, that I also had contact with and I know they didn't have the tech the Darloks were getting. So I don't know how, with two planets they were doing so much.
Then they started attacking me and their tactics were impressive. Firstly, they had been able to produce a lot of ships somehow. They used Heavy Beam ships and Death Spores. Very hard to defend against. And the beam ships had Internal Stabilizers and they attack, then back up. They had 4 movement and most of my ships had only 2, and they had Auto Repair and I didn't get it in my tree. So yeah, that was brutal.
Then the cats wiped out all of the other races and turned on we so I was getting hit by both of them, and I didn't get Planetary Shields either. No planet could defend itself and I could only get one stack together good enough to take on either of their fleets, so it went pretty bad.
I mean I had a huge lead in terms of population and planets. And I also got every IRC and was up to IRC5 and had very low pollution levels. So I had really good production, but with like many times their population I was still behind on production and they were just churning out ships, and high quality ships at that. So yeah. Xilimi is no joke.
On another note, I just played a game on Harder Xilimi and that was pretty crazy. The Mrrshan started wiping out AIs. The Darloks were next to me but got screwed on planets, as they had one world and two irradiated next to them and then the next closest planet was like 7 parsecs away.
I was able to expand like crazy (I was Klackon) and I took like 15 planets, while the Darloks had 2. Yet, the Darloks led the game in Tech all game long, even when they had contact with only me and one other race that was way behind them. So I'm not sure what was going on. Yeah, as I was expanding my research wasn't amazing, but I kept it up and usually had at least 300 BC in research early on and then as planets started to complete I was hitting 4K research by turn 100 and the Darloks still had only 2 planets, yet they were out researching me, having lots of techs I didn't have, and they only had contact with one other race, that I also had contact with and I know they didn't have the tech the Darloks were getting. So I don't know how, with two planets they were doing so much.
Then they started attacking me and their tactics were impressive. Firstly, they had been able to produce a lot of ships somehow. They used Heavy Beam ships and Death Spores. Very hard to defend against. And the beam ships had Internal Stabilizers and they attack, then back up. They had 4 movement and most of my ships had only 2, and they had Auto Repair and I didn't get it in my tree. So yeah, that was brutal.
Then the cats wiped out all of the other races and turned on we so I was getting hit by both of them, and I didn't get Planetary Shields either. No planet could defend itself and I could only get one stack together good enough to take on either of their fleets, so it went pretty bad.
I mean I had a huge lead in terms of population and planets. And I also got every IRC and was up to IRC5 and had very low pollution levels. So I had really good production, but with like many times their population I was still behind on production and they were just churning out ships, and high quality ships at that. So yeah. Xilimi is no joke.