You mean the unique ruins? Or do you want an ingame list of ALL ruins and their development bonuses?

<r> The table of the top cost effective troops is then as follows: <br/>

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Naxxilian 139* 0.60 231
Shakturi 164 0.80 205
Ikkuro 137* 0.70 195
Boskara 139* 0.75 185
Mortalen 138 0.75 184
Sluken 135* 0.80 168
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Which makes the Naxxilians the ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Spidey<br/>
Anyways, the raw troop strengths for the vanilla races, sorted from highest to lowest.
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</i> Naxxilian 129 0.60 215
Shakturi 164 0.80 205
Ikkuro 132 0.70 188
Mortalen 138 0.75 184
Boskara 134 0.75 178
Sluken 130 0.80 162 ...

The universe settings when starting new game has a slider that adjusts this and I believe your overall game difficulty does as well.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: General Patton<br/>
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What the shield will do is prevent them from landing troops on the surface and starting to build pirate bases again. So after the pirates are destroyed, if the shield is finished the problem is fixed.[8D]
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Fleshbits<br/>
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Do you generally use torps instead of missles after the early game?<br/>
I've got 4 ships types, so I kind of do my loadouts:<br/>
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Escort - All beam weapons and quick<br/>
Frigate - All missiles<br/>
Destroyer - Mostly torps and ...

<t> I agree that you should put "space control" as your top priority when grabbing land. It will take a lot of time even for a 98% colony to start making serious cash, so there is no need to rush it, you just have to make sure you are able to grab as many of those as possible. Capturing independents ...

<t> You can't get enough money early game to crash research the big important projects (hyperdrive, colonization), so there is really no reason to tax your HW unless you need the money for something else. You will get plenty from private sector, that should be enough to last you for a few years ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Andy06r<br/>
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In my experience, any game I play as that is not ugnari/teekun merchant guild results in a private sector 200k in the hole. I do not alter my prewarp play style based on my race, and I'm looking for tips on how to makes republic start work on ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: pycco<br/>
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i go for high end defensive ships when fighting them, rail guns do well coupled with phasers. i put 20 repair bots and 100 armor on ships i intend to fight the Shakturi with there usaly a cake walk for me by this point. now the Shakturi in <URL ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Bingeling<br/>
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Tax does only help with migration with the latest patch. <br/>
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The way to have them grow quickly is to have "full" colonies nearby to provide migrants.
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patch notes only say it has been reduced, not ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: buglepong<br/>
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You can perma crash everything even on max cost research with money spinning races. Its even more important to crash at the start when everyone is racing.<br/>
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again, what race, what difficulty ...

I recently played a custom game, checked all the story/event options and I did find utopia and the shakturi arrived as well. Plus, there were tons of debris fields, weird forbidden areas and unfinished world destroyers that I have not seen in the quickstart version.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: buglepong<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Spidey. That 90% research bonus is plain ridiculous and so damn addictive that any other race feels utterly stupid by comparison.
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Races with lots of cash can perma crash research at ...

Put one Energy collector on ALL your ships. A lot of ships just stay in one place (construction ships constructing/repairing, mining ships mining etc) and thus you can save a ton of fuel by putting that one collector on, the price to build it and support it isn't that big

<t> I play the Steam version, and when I conquer an empire, I get all their remaining ships. They have maxos blasters, basic armor, fusion reactor.. just basic stuff you get at start. But when I send them all to retire, I suddenly get bonuses to Titan Beams, Quantum reactors, Meridian shields... <br ...

<t> The quameno can easily out-tech the other AIs, and because most of the AIs research the same things, quameno get everything faster. They get hyperdrives faster, colonization faster, weapons faster... It can snowball, but it depends in great extent on difficulty - their slow population growth is ...

Facilities in the colony window. The colony screen is also a good place to check for Pirate bases.

If you have the events enabled, the game creates the default Mechanoid empire with their Utopia that just sits there as always, no need to add them as a separate empire.

Restless/Extreme here as well and I like it.