Ahhh! Minor Races the biggest threats in game WTH?

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Okay I'm really new. I think this game is great , i mean truely awesome, but.................
What the Hell!!!!!!! is up the minor races by turn 18 the scottlingas had 12 colony ships and 3 colonies in my latest game, and it seems to pretty much happen the same way every game. ppl say the computer doesn't cheat but yet how can you get 14 colony ships total by turn 18? it's freaking ridicoulous. I'm playing 1.13 on painful lvl. It's soo freaking sad, most of the "major" races only have 2 or 3 star systems on a Large map, and all the minor races have 8+
all us majors pay tribute to the minors , and I think in one game The fundmentalists transcended and won through Final frontier. make minor races minor.............. 2-3 systems tops. i have to constantly restart over and over and over again until i finally get a asteriod nearby and get an early starfighter and then i proceed to blow up colony ships every turn for the next 36+ turns (again how the hell does the computer get them like that without cheating?)
is this what everyone does when they play keep restarting til you get an early rock and get an attack ship to blow away the minor races.........
Okay so maybe i'm exagerating a little, but this is really really frustrating, however 14 colony ships by turn 18 is not an exageration...
i even read the the minor races colonize less now then they used too.

Please help.........
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
but yet how can you get 14 colony ships total by turn 18?
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Set both military production and spend rate to 100% and you make colony ships every two turns. With a few planets what you just said asked is easy.

~SDC~
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Even better, take the +50 military production racial ability, or take +1 speed, so you can expand even faster. This only makes sense on the largest map sizes.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
But it's pure magic on the largest map sizes. With +1 Speed and +10 PQ (racial pick and political party mod) I've gotten over 40% of the land in my last two Huge (Painful) games.

~SDC~
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
He was talking about the MINOR civs folks... not how the major AI players ought to be playing... :D
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I think the AIs not to be cheating is only true for the majors... :notsure:
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
i agree , it appears that the minors are cheating. they always have the best cash and tech, in most of my games on medium/large maps they have the most planets, and none of the majors ever have more than 4 ships defending on painful lvl, but the minors always have a full 2 rows of ships for defense.

on a side note: Whats with the vor collective? every game I play they get their arses handed to him first by the other computer oppenents, even though they are always same skill lvl .I'm always befriending them, cause I feel sorry for them., They seem to surrender to me alot, why does the vor collective suck so bad?

bad AI for them?