Technological Victory and Big Galaxies

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I"ll admit, I've only run through one full game of GC so far, which I won by cultural victory, so I'm still feeling my oats.
One thing I wonder about is this: I worry about increasing galaxy size past medium, because it seems to me that this will simply make the techno victory the easiest and best method of winning. If you have a gigantic galaxy, I forsee that it's going to take a helluva long time before the races all meet and really start competing with each other. And considering how much tech I managed to research in the medium game, well then heck, with twice as many productive planets if not more, then what's to say that round about the time when anybody gets around to really threatening me or me them, someone's gonna pushing for the Final Frontier?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I don't think the AI can win by Tech Victory right? ..It's also surprising how quickly you find the other races... and get into war. Larger galaxies have increasing things to spend your money on too, you have more area to defend, so you need a larger navy, you have more planets to keep happy with social production. I think Tech research evens out fairly well between the galaxy sizes really.

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Tech costs scale with galaxy size!


Go ahead and play largere galaxies. Things take longer to research to balance against the more planets you'll have.

Paul.

~SDC~
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Fear not. I'm in the middle of a Gigantic/Normal game right now, and am going for the tech win. I'm about 60% there, but the other races are trying their damnedest to make sure I don't survive to see the "Final Frontier".
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Playing Gigantic/Crippling I had to fight 4 wars (Torians, Drengin, Altarians and finally Arceans) before I reached tech victory. By then, culture victory was on the 12-turn countdown and I had the military power to win a conquest victory. Overall quite balanced in other words ;)
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Seems to me tech victory is too easy to get in gigantic maps considering the ai is very bad at invading planets (easy to stab their incoming transports with AMMs or lone ships).
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I agree with you LDiCesare. It's not VERY easy to go for a tech victory, but it's too easy since there's no competition from the AI.

~SDC~
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
LDiCesare: Actually, I suspect that in 1.04 their invasions will get better, given the comments on improved fleet handling. In fact, the Arceans (set to intelligent) are already stacking transports and frigates in my 1.03A game, which was a reasonable enough defense at the time.