Playing Drath feels like cheating?

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Compared to the other civs I've tried, the Drath are just a cakewalk. I tried them out (getting back into the game, I never played the pre-set races before) in a few games and quickly got their gist.

- They have very high diplomacy both innately and from quickly gotten tech so you can get what you want from other civs much easier than otherwise and they will also attack you less.

- Ridiculous revenue from other races being at war which is what makes them so seemingly overpowered. I make other races go to war as soon as possible and routinely have taxes set to 0% after a point because I don't need any tax revenue - I get so ridiculously much money just from manipulating everyone into wars and I can then use fractions of that to make the AIs get into new wars should they decide to make peace, keeping my ''economy'' rolling... instead of complementing my economy, war profiteering is my economy. You are forgiven for thinking that this makes the Drath ''economy'' unreliable as consistently having everyone at war is cheap and easy, even in hypothetical periods of peace your stockpile of cash is massive so you don't need to worry about running out of money at all.

- Because of not needing economic buildings you have so many more tiles available for factories and research, this means that the war profiteering in practice becomes more than an economic bonus - it's a huge industrial advantage.

 It can't just be me thinking that the Drath Legion is pretty much playing the game by different rules than the other civs? they seem really overpowered to me. As if it isn't enough that you can make your rivals destroy each other for you, the very act of doing so gives you absurd income which has the side-effect of making your industry much stronger! What do you think about them? how would you rank the races?



I mean I tried a game as custom race Arcean tech tree now, and it's just so different. The Arceans actually have to make economic buildings. They can't rely on massive diplomacy bonuses to keep enemies off them while they power up, or attacking each other instead of you. I haven't even commented on the Drath's huge soldiering bonus either!

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

The usually-quoted disadvantage of the Drath is their slow population growth-rate.  I haven't  played them in awhile, maybe i'll get back to them, but I don't remember being able to run the whole empire off of war-profiteering.  

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Well that's what I'm doing, and what does slow pop growth really do? it replenishes worlds slower in times of war and causes your tax base to be smaller for a while. I have a tech lead as the Drath so I'm not concerned about my worlds being invaded and troops replenishing too slowly to defend them because the enemy won't reach my worlds anyway. When I'm on the offensive I have at least +50 soldiering. Economically I don't feel the slower pop growth because I don't rely on my tax base to begin with - why would I care if my tax income is smaller than my neighbour when my treasury is 90 000 from war profiteering (no exaggeration) and he's at best got a few thousand bcs?

I really think you should try them again just to see how overpowered it is - I literally don't make a single economy building. I research Xeno Ethics for the +25 creativity tech after it if you select good and the colony maintenance reduction that comes with it. Get Invisible Hand and War Profiteering when you find other civs and make them go to war ASAP for techs like advanced computing and xeno farming that won't really do much for them and are inexpensive for you to research. Then you just sit back, make sure every threat is at war with 2+ other civs, tech up and start conquering with ships that can take out an enemy's entire military alone without breaking a sweat and your huge soldiering bonus.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

If I may ask what size galaxy,tech level,and game leve are you playing at? as these can be a determing factor as well!

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Yes, that can be quite a difference!

 

I don't think I ever really played the Drath though. I always went with the Korx as they are a more "believable" war profiteering race, in my opinion. Maybe I should give the Drath a spin someday...

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Yes they are a bit over powered. I don't like to play drath, but if you piss them off, all AIs are coming after you... and losing is pretty much imminent at  that point...