DA beta - Minors creating scouts and Embassies

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Is there any reason a minor should build a horde of scout ships in the new beta. Seems mighty strange seen as they cant expand?? Plus they seem to be building multiple embassies too!!





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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You think that's strange? I've seen minor races build mining starbases to harvest the influence adding resource.

(I should have posted this earlier, but I forgot and reading your post caused me to remember.)
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yea a minor almost took a planet by influence in one of my games, but sadly they got taken over by the Drengin.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Now that I think about it, maybe there should be a specific AI for minor races only.

For example, perhaps minor race AI's won't value as much influence related techs a player is offering in a trade, since the only value they have to the minor race is to offer in trade to a third party.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
TGE, minor races don't use the influence system in GalCiv 2 (they did in the first one). They do not produce any influence, and their world cannot be taken because of a major race's (player included) influence.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Not wholely true - they do accumulate influence, and will often dump influence starbases in other AOIs, but the latter usually - not always - have no modules attached so are useless anyway and only serve to extend range/annoy.

Its often useful to take out a minor race as part of a takeover strategy of another Race as the minors accumulate substantial influence points to prevent cultural takeover. When you grab them its like a Culture Bomb that rips apart the opposing Race AOI. A recent game I took a minor race with 204,000 influence points, on grabbing their planet, and paying cash for a political Capital (they are very cheap), the whole AOI of the surrounding race was blown apart and planets started to revolt.

Regards
Zy