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Are the Mortalen race victory conditions bugged? Even with multiple playthroughs with Mortalens, I've only managed to get points for the first one: conquer the most enemy planets. Having the most experience general/admiral is hard to assess- it's possible there are more experienced ones out there. But I fight a lot of wars and typically win them all, so I expect to get points for "win 70% of your wars".

Has anyone managed to get points for the others? How did you manage it?

Haven't played with Mortalen in a long while, but yes, their victory conditions appeared to be bug since launch. I don't recall seeing anything in the update logs about fixing them. I assume they are going to get fixed sometime after the holidays along with the release of the first expansion, which is supposedly going to add new races.

Very loosely related: One of the race-specific victory conditions for Teekans is to kill the most Vordikar in the galaxy. I believe that this is a nod to their lore-based hatred of the dreaded sand slug, but the base game didn't include the sand slug as a space creature (unlike DWU). It is my hope that a future expansion introduces the sand slug space creature, and that the Teekans are adjusted to have their victory condition care about killing them instead of Vordikar (there really is no thematic basis for the current setup).

Anyway, not intended to derail. Just looking forward to a day when all race-specific victory conditions work, both mechanically and thematically!

Started a Mortalen game recently and I feel the same. Only the first one has given me any points as you mentioned. Despite several invasions and battles.

Do you have a time limit before a game win can be triggered? I think the default setup won't begin checking for victory conditions until a certain number of years pass to prevent weird issues with race-based conditions that take time to equalize. I'm not sure if that could have anything to do with it, but it is possible that the game won't give you credit for things like invading the most colonies until the victory conditions are "online"?