What are the minor races....?

Ahhh. Remebered the Sanderians (seem to occur fairly rarely)

BTW, I wish there were more minor races in each game....and they were more (a bit) expansionist.

Stupot

Well I think I've seen a races called:
Dyn
Calordonian
Break away factions (like the Torian Imperium)
probably way more, but I cant think of them now.


Scottlingas (anyone else think this is a stupid name?)
well they are aliens I suppose...

I have no idea if these are all spelled right, but here are the ones I can name off the top of my head:

Venge (terrorists, will bio-attack random planets until wiped out)
Calor (also terrorists I think)
Debinians
Paladians
Sanderians
Alexians (always at start, culture flip easy)
Carinoids (always at start, almost never flip)
Scottilingas
I-League (actualy have influence)
Fundamentalists (hate evil)

There are more, but most of them don't have anything special about them.

Many of the minor races are named after employees at Stardock (Alex, Scott, Cari, etc.)

As far as I know, Alex-ians, Cari-noids and Scott-lingas all take their name from a developper.
Scottlingas seem to be part of the starting minors on bigger maps.
I-League happen everytime a planet is so unhappy that it revolts. You can get them more often if you use destabilisation or put your taxes too high.
Fundies are spawned randomly if there are evil empires out there.

Vegans is another, I think there are over 35 of them.

Draginol and then there is something lords . . . Dark Lords?

The Kwalasians (sp?) seem to always appear on gigantic maps, and they seem to always evolve into the I-league.

The Furan are another terrorist race not yet mentioned.

Dread Lords, Draginol, and Dark Arnor are supposed to be powerful evil forces that will dominate the galaxy if left unchecked. I say "supposed to be" since if the player is prepared he can extort enormous amounts of money from them.

Whole bunch of others too.

I believe in the english.str file you can find the whole list of 36 races.

i think the Scottlingas on the Planet Arcturus is a very obscure Arthurian reference. but i iz crazy.

'lingas was a kinda dark age anglo-saxon kinda thing. you know, iclingas, baslingas.....etc etc. mainly anglian rather than saxon, i think....

though there is the Excalibur....

I thought the Excalibur might have been a B5 reference.

Here's one race you guys are forgetting: The Dmer.

surely not jesteth, or is that jousteth. didn't King Arthur appear on B5?!? Michael York??

Yes, he did. The reason I thought it might be a B5 reference is that the most powerful ship humans ever built was called the Excalibur.

I ran into the Venge today. Like the Draginol, they appear to be related to a random event, though I must have overlooked the significance at the time. There is more variance among minors on larger maps. Small maps, all you see is the Alexians and Carinoids all the time. Scottlingas are the third "starting minor" if the map is large enough, and Kwilasians the fourth. The rest seem to be tied to various forms of events, although some "take over" existing worlds while others automagically transform/terraform some ungodly rock into a habitable world, instantly.

More minors would unbalance the game. Having them expand beyond their one sector would make them majors. If a minor gets three or four planets, though, they can be fairly significant. And they are relatively stronger on smaller maps, too. Big maps, they get swallowed whole, time and again.

Minor's I've met:

Alexians
Carinoids
Scottlingas
Kwilasians
Sanderians
Paridians
Denebians
Vegans
Paladians
I-League
Fundamentalists
Venge
Draginol

Maybe a couple others who made a brief appearance and were too insignificant to pay attention to.


- Sirian

Can't forget the Windischians!

This is the list from the new expansion in the english.str file(galciv 1.10.073)

Vegans
Paridians
Jarkians
Sanderons
Arvanitians
Furan
Sanderians
Debians
Windischians
Adinians
I-League

[1Terrorist] Calor
[2Terrorist] Venge
[3Terrorist] Dmer

[Race0] Terran Alliance
[Race1] Drengin Empire
[Race2] Altarian Republic
[Race3] Arcean Empire
[Race4] Torian Confederation
[Race5] Yor Collective


[Race0] Terran Confederacy
[Race1] Drengin Federation
[Race2] Delean Republic
[Race3] Free Arceans
[Race4] Torian Imperium
[Race5] Iconian Empire

[Race0] Terran Theocracy
[Race1] Drengin Peace Federation
[Race2] Holy Light
[Race3] Arcean Theocracy
[Race4] Torian Righteous
[Race5] Iconian Empire

DreadLord
Draginol
plus the usual starting ones.

I seem to remember more from the 1.05 version.I don't have 1.05 anymore to double check to see if some were removed.

It's almost a shame we rarely see so many of those minors. It would be nice if we could get more random events that spew out factions and terrorists, it would certainly make things more intersting. Especially in gigantic maps, there is room for some extra factions and sides to spice things up.

Maybe it's possible to hook up destibilization to the chance a totally new, random group comes forth. Destibilize an evil empire to bring up the Fundementalists. yey!

Speaking of minor races, am I the only one who thinks limiting them to 1 sector is a bad idea. Especially for the I-League. It would be cool if the I-League and Fundamentalist would actually try to grow. Sometimes they get quite powerful after the events that produce them. If they tried to grow from that point they could really become major powers to deal with!

I find only havingn 5 races in very large maps a little boring. I think if the minors, or the addition of new majors would make it a lot better.

Actually I'd like to see both. New majors as well as minor races that are willing to expand.

Brad said the minors would have limited expansion in 1.11

Is that the pay expansion in January or a patch coming before hand?

No 1.11 is the patch set to come out soon. It's done actually but some issues with the server have prevented them from putting it up yet. Then 1.12 is a patch set for a November release then after that is the expansion you have to pay for.

~SDC~

Unless you have a Drengin subscription!

maybe they should add a cheat key that forces a random minor to appear.

The fundamentalists are trying to take ove the galaxy in my current game.The random event that spurns them had also flipped almost half the universe to them which made the drengins go away totally and half the yor was consumed as well.Right now they are at war with everyone remaining and have a great toehold and the best ships in the game.Large map at crippling.