Help the minor races

If you want to help out the minors there are several ways to do it.

1) If they are at war, gift the minors some of your advanced ships to buff up their military. But ... make sure that you bring the ships to the planet in question first. Sometimes the AI just leaves them alone if they are too far away from their planets.

2) Build a starbase that is full of culture upgrades and defence/attack upgrades in the minors sector and gift it to the minor.

3) If the minor is at war then bribe the Majors to initiate peace with the minor.

4) Attack the major that has the most influence and take over that planet(s) that are closest. Destroy any of that majors starbases that may be having a cultural affect on the minors sector.

5) Give the minor one of your planets especially if it is in the sector beside the minor.

6) set up all your trade routes with the minor. Although this won't be as effective as the others.
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.... and to answer your last question



this does not happen, minors do not try to develop into majors. Although if you give them some planets they could become difficult later if you want to defeat them. Some minors can become very powerful but they are not usually agressive unless you initiate war with them.

i have modded the game to allow aggressive minor colonization and minors to invade other planets - gives them something of a boost. once on a small (or was it a medium?) map i molded the caranoids into a quite a force that darn near took down the drengin all on their own. never seen anything like that since, however. they had the personality that game that was once slaves of the drengin.

overall the minor power thing is pretty cool - nice to have some schmucks to pick on and/or manipulate. i do have a couple of problems though...

1. lack of information on minor civs. sometimes i would like to know more about them but have not found any way to do so. those periodic ranking reports provide some info and gnn sometimes informs me of minor espionage and destabilization efforts, but all is vague and spotty. i am assuming that the minors do not initiate destabilzation against me nor perform any other activity that would require my effort to counterract. nonetheless it would be nice to see where the little guys (who are sometimes not so little) stand in comparison to the big guys.

2. kicking them around is much easier than propping them up. i played one where i allied with the minors and it seemmed to dissuade the big boys from messing with my little buddies but i did not continue the game long enough to see the long term reaction.

Be very careful about allying with another race. They can quickly drag you into a war. My general rule is to not ally with anyone until I'm "the man" militarily speaking.