I started a new game, and was really nostalgic to see all of my old races that I had custom built. Of course, none of them worked now, and I wanted to see what the changes were so I just decided to build a new custom race. I don't like the flavor a Hivemind, so I went with an Extreme Materialist and Xenophile avian race with Technocracy and Mechanist. I also had wormhole FTL.
I started play and for the first while everything was fine. I like large galaxies with relatively limited other races so as everyone gets to expand nicely. I didn't actually meet another race for about 120 years. When we did, they were an Extreme Spiritualist and Xenophobe avian race. It was fairly funny.
The story missions are a lot better, but I still had the issue where I never was able to finish my "backstory"/precursor quest line. This time I had the Precursors, and I never got more than 3/6 artifacts after I explored the whole galaxy.
I researched the dangerous AI tech, and continued to play for about another 140 years before finishing my Technological Ascension project and combining humans, my race, and a few other in-empire races to a Trans-iTylani Cursorus race, from the original Tylani, and then Trans-iTylani. I then researched jump drives and figured I would be safe, as I figured that the AI Rebellion crisis would happen. I was wrong.
About 40 years later the Unbidden attacked and absolutely no races did anything. None of my alliance members helped me, not my vassals, no one. Even the Guardian Fallen Empire right next to mine did nothing. All in all, I wasn't quite ready for the invasion, and I was settled on one of the "northern" arms of the spiral galaxy, and it took the Unbidden about 20 years to wipe me out, save for my Ringworld and my Sol system in the far south that I took from another Empire.
It took the Unbidden about 70 more years to wipe out all remaining life in the galaxy, and I lost.
1. I was surprised at how much more nice the game feels.
2. I was surprised at the end game crisis and how no one helped anyone else at all.
3. I really liked it. Last time I played it felt really incomplete, and now feels like a good game.
I started play and for the first while everything was fine. I like large galaxies with relatively limited other races so as everyone gets to expand nicely. I didn't actually meet another race for about 120 years. When we did, they were an Extreme Spiritualist and Xenophobe avian race. It was fairly funny.
The story missions are a lot better, but I still had the issue where I never was able to finish my "backstory"/precursor quest line. This time I had the Precursors, and I never got more than 3/6 artifacts after I explored the whole galaxy.
I researched the dangerous AI tech, and continued to play for about another 140 years before finishing my Technological Ascension project and combining humans, my race, and a few other in-empire races to a Trans-iTylani Cursorus race, from the original Tylani, and then Trans-iTylani. I then researched jump drives and figured I would be safe, as I figured that the AI Rebellion crisis would happen. I was wrong.
About 40 years later the Unbidden attacked and absolutely no races did anything. None of my alliance members helped me, not my vassals, no one. Even the Guardian Fallen Empire right next to mine did nothing. All in all, I wasn't quite ready for the invasion, and I was settled on one of the "northern" arms of the spiral galaxy, and it took the Unbidden about 20 years to wipe me out, save for my Ringworld and my Sol system in the far south that I took from another Empire.
It took the Unbidden about 70 more years to wipe out all remaining life in the galaxy, and I lost.
1. I was surprised at how much more nice the game feels.
2. I was surprised at the end game crisis and how no one helped anyone else at all.
3. I really liked it. Last time I played it felt really incomplete, and now feels like a good game.
