Posted by: alex_g
« on: January 17, 2021, 03:19:22 AM »No, they will scale based on your starting population same as a TN start. However I believe the game can generate non-TN races with some probability, which exist largely to be conquered as their AI will never advance to TN tech (even if you SM or DB gift it to them).
Good to know. I might increase the NPR generation chance then, the galaxy feels kinda empty right now but I was afraid of doing so before because I didn't want only conventional NPRs. Thanks.
Edit: Took some digging, but found the post from a couple months back. Ironically in reply to a bug report about NPR’s seemingly not researching new tech in a quarter speed research game.
The NPRs don't do research projects in the same way as players. Instead, they research groups of projects linked to their design theme. The cost and results of the research is the same and they still use the output from research facilities to generate research points, but it is handled in the background rather than via the UI, which means you won't see any NPR research in the DB. It also takes a while to research a project group, after which they get all the new techs at the same time.
I feel more relieved now, thanks.
Is there any way I can check their progress? Either with SM or by looking into the DB? Even if in the DB they're not stored as research projects, the information must be present somewhere.