Hey Rollo, you inspired my work!
Tampa: I have the Last savegame (turn 90), and both have colonized their avalaible planets, and then, will not help you...
Maybe their are lack of Colony ships in some computer state?
Anyway, they did contact early in the game, and maybe this was the reason.
TURN 90.
Romulan: War with Orks, Vikings and Vaxin. T&R with Aquilaeian. Partnership with Praetorians and Pyrochette. With the Pyrochette�s help, they have destroyed 2 Orks starting planets (in a very cool battle, two big Romulan and Pyrochette fleets, destroyed a well defended Ork planet). Seems to be that they doesn�t consider the Orks a problem anymore
, and then, have declared the war against the Viking and against the Vaxin. They�re in the 3rd position.
Praetorian: MA with Orks, EA and Vaxin. Trade with Pyrochette. T&R with Vikings. Partnership with Aquilaeian and Romulan. None with Rage. WAR with Drakols. They�re around all the galaxy, and colonizing very well. But some of their allies are starting to feel a bad mood... Orks, Rage, Aquilaeian, Pyrochette and Romulan, are Murderous to them... I think that because the others races are bussy fighting between them, nobody still will break with the Praetorian
Usually I liked their ship designs, but now I saw an attack Cruiser with two PPB, 2 Shields, 5 PDC, 3 Armor, Sensor, ECM, Mult.Track, Self-Destruct and Stellar Collector. In my opinion, only two PPB is not enough for a Cruiser.
Orks: MA with Praetorian, Vikings, Drakol. Partnership with Vaxin and at War with Pyrochette and Romulan.
They lost 2 of their starting planets (were 3), and think that will be unable to survive the Romulan/Pyrochette attacks. Although I understand the RPG reasons for their ship designs (I had a chat with Atraikius some time ago), I believe that their attack ships have not enough protection: only 2 Armor III inside a Battle Cruiser looks weak. The fighters have saved more than one of their battles, but are not enough to stop a big fleet of Romulan ships with PPB or a big fleet of Pyrochette ships.
Vikings: T&R with Praetorian. Military with Orks, EA, Pyrochette, Drakols, Piundon. Partnership with Partnership. At war with War with Rage, Aquilaeian and now with Romulan. Considering that they�re in middle of everyting (and everybody knows that all the AIs have problems when they�re under attack from several sides), they�re doing a good work.
Earth Alliance: War with Drakol and Piundon. Trade with Rage. Military with Orks, Praetorian and Vikings. Partnership with Vaxin. None with Pyrochette.
I like their ship designs. Their are not losing the wars, but not winning. Something interesting: they have 4 fleets with a few ships each one, but two of their biggest fleets (5 and 3 ships), are fleets with defensive ships.
Vaxin: Military alliance with Praetorian. Partnership with Orks, EA and Vikings.. War with Drakols and Romulan. None with Pyrochette... but they have a not declared war!
I like their ships designs. They have found two empty systems with good planets for them.
Rage: War with the Piundon and with the Vikings. Trade Alliance with EA and Romulan. T&R with Drakol. None with Praetorian and Aquilaeian (but they have a virtual war state with Aquilaeian).
They have lost a Homeworld with the Piundon... but are expanding to the north.
Aquilaeian: War with the Vikings. None with Rage and Pyrochette. Trade with Orks adn Drakol. T&R with Romulan. Partnership with Praetorian. Because they�re far of the Vikings (and Rage), they had not big battles against them: only skirmishes. They lost a colony after that a trinary system colapsed!
Pyrochette: Trade Alliance with Praetorian. Partnership with Romulan. Military with Vikings. None with EA, Vaxin and Aquilaeian. War against the Orks. They�re going well against the Orks.
Drakol: War with EA, Vaxin and Praetorian. Trade with Aquilaeian. T&R with Rage. Military with Orks, Vikings y Piundon.
They have colonized the planets into their systems. Maybe the problem was the �state� that had the AI. They�re the only that decided to fight against the Praetorian plague!
and killed one of their colonies.
Have not many ships, but many many satellites! (good defense in the early-mid game!).
They got Intel, but because have not available planets, only got 2.5 K like other races.
Piundon: Military with Vikings and Drakol. War with Rage and EA. They�re fighting quite well against the Rage. Have colonized a new system, after destroy the Rage�s planets, and started to colonize to the north. I have the same feeling that with the Drakols: maybe they�re lack of colonies in some of the state queues.
I really like their ship designs, and should be cool, if they became at war against the Aquilaeian.