Iconians failing to develop

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I've had 2 games in a row now that the iconians failed to do much. They actually claimed a lot of planets, but most of them have nothing built on them. This could be a valid strategy to a point, but once the colony rush is over, it's just silly.

What was funny is at first I thought they had changed espionage. I'd go to plant a spy, and I'd see no where to put him, and no buildings. I thought maybe they'd changed the counter-espionage building's effects.

It was only later when I started invading I saw that there was nothing there...
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I assume your talking about DA. In my limited experience with DA, The Iconians seem to only be able to overcome their own financial mismanagement about 25% of the time. The rest of the time they colonize hard and shutdown and stay that way for two years(or till I start in on them). The random opponents setting I use seems to love to give me the Iconians a lot and they are almost always the galaxy whipping boy.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's really annoying, however, when you start right next to them, have also colonized hard trying to beat them in the colony rush and then you slowly start seeing your worlds and mining bases flipping over because the Iconians had colonized all the !@#$ extreme worlds that you couldn't and built up influence deep in your own territory. . .
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