Spacehammurabi

Reply to GC3 Retribution - "newbie" thoughts on the value of pop in the early game in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock.net Forums

In a human player's hands, the Drengin are just overpowered in Retribution. After the initial colonization push, Drengin just build kinetic ships in mass and crush their neighbors. Soon, they're rolling in planets, research, population, money, production. Ironically, the handicapped races are the silicoid now even though everyone's population is gimped. While early game the silicoids can keep up because everyone's population growth is so slow, mid game they fal

GC3 Retribution - "newbie" thoughts on the value of pop in the early game in Galactic Civilizations III Stardock.net Forums

I had played GC3 before, including the Mercenaries and Crusade DLC's, but gave it up because I didn't enjoy the game pace and play with Crusades. Recently, I downloaded the free version of GC3 Retribution from Epic Games. I hadn't played GC3 for a while, so that's why titled this as "newbie" thoughts. The biggest change is the slow initial population growth rate of 0.01. This makes population the most valuable resource early in the game. This has several implic