Thanks for the helpful link.

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I think the racial characteristics were more important in earlier versions and now largely add flavour to the cpu players behaviours. Since Legends I find the victory conditions, racial resource bonuses, character prevalences, etc. much more significant for my race choice ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: jpwrunyan<br/>
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This leads me to my next gripe: the good governments are TOO OVERPOWERED. Seriously, why is Democracy so awesome? No one would ever NOT play Democracy (unless they had an even more OP special government). <br/>

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: jpwrunyan<br/>
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As Ralzakark said, push the big button that says DISMISS. You'll get a new leader after that. You can dismiss any character you want, but only leaders get replaced immediately. After that there is a small waiting period while your ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: feelotraveller<br/>
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Other than the mention of intelligence increasing research speed in the galactopedia there has never been any evidence that this is actually the case. Given the other vagaries of the galactopedia I believe this is a (recurrent) furphy ...

<t> I'm a little confused about the impact the racial characteristics have on the race I choose to play as. Some of them are fairly straight forward, such as intelligence increasing my research speed and aggression increasing my troop strength, but I'm not sure how other characteristics impact my ...

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You cant change characters role, if he is ambassador, he cant be a spy. <br/>
As for selecting another new leader, you cant. Dude, its Democracy)) only your population can elect the new one, not you)
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I didn't ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ehsumrell1<br/>
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Hello Wipqozn;<br/>
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Right click on the Distantworlds.exe file and select "Run as Administrator"<br/>
Hopefully that will solve your issue. If not, please post back and also<br/>
state what operating system you are using. Hope this ...

<t> I can't seem to figure out how to change a characters role (say from Ambassador to Intelligence Agent). In particular I'm curious how I can assign a new leader (I'm a democratic government). I can't seem to find anything the galactopedia, but maybe I'm just missing it.<br/>
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How do I ...

<r> I'm experiencing an issue where I'm only able to successfully launch the game with autorun.exe. If I attempt to launch DistantWorlds.exe directly I receive the following windows error messages:<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Distant Worlds has stopped working.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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