Request: unified, consice race description

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Hello, I have a request for around when TA is released.

It would be really helpful to have a single post discussing all of the races, just a few sentences for each to touch on their comparative strengths and weaknesses.

For example:
A - No major weaknesses. Strong diplomacy, weak on everything else.
B - strong soldiers, above-average diplomacy
C - small population, powerful initial technologies but difficult to research new ones
X - powerful starbases & mining
Y - weapons are large & powerful
Z - weapons are weak, but very small so more can fit on a single ship
N - excellent traders
M - machines. Not influenced by diplomacy, maintenance costs are high
etc...

This would be really helpful to think about how best to play as (or against) each one.

I seem to recall there being something like this before, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

Thanks!
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The problem is, if you consider it one, is that considerable bonuses can be lumped on them just on the abilities screen to negate any intentional 'defect' in racial design, and tech-trading can mitigate most weaknesses as well.

The Torians, for example, are weak at research. However, they can just trade for Discovery Spheres, and combined with their existing version of research (which is all +%research bonuses) actually makes them the BEST at research.