Posted by: gpt3
« on: September 06, 2022, 08:05:59 PM »For playing a reduced research game, I would note that as a very rough guideline, the new spoilers as with most spoiler races can be dealt with reasonably well once your race(s) reaches Ion Drive tech level - so this can be one way to balance things, just turn them on once you reach that level. If you plan to stay at NPE tech all game, spoiler races are probably not for you anyways.
As a tangent, I think that a fun concept might be a game where one's technology is intentionally imbalanced between fields.
For example, a player race that has MaxTech in one field but a 1% racial research rate for everything else. Perhaps you're a caveman tribe that stumbled upon an abandoned Precursor automated factory.