New Race: the Aquilaeian Empire

[Master Belisarius]

Some time ago, Klaus Lehtonen (the guy who did the great Toron shipset), wrote here if somebody could create an AI for a new shipset that he did.
After hours and hours of testing, here is the result: the Aquilaeian Empire, a race with Organic Manipulation capabilities.

I will be very grateful, if somebody could send me comments and/or suggestions.

You can download it on: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/ubbup...eianver1.0.ZIP

[Alpha Kodiak]

I've been using the Aquilaeians as one of the races I have been testing my own organic race against. They wound up allied, so I haven't seen any organic on organic fights, but I have seen them fighting against some other races, and I really like the ship designs you are getting. The combination of the engine killing weapons mixed in with the organic weapons seems very effective.

I really have only two suggestions. First, they seem to expand a little slowly at first. You may want to specify an extra colonizer during the exploration phase to speed early expansion. Of course, that means slower deployment of defenses, so you have to weigh the trade-offs and may decide not to change it. Second, they seem a little slow to develop intelligence technology, so they wind up vulnerable to the races that develop intelligence earlier.

All in all, they play quite well. I find them quite competitive the other races.

[Master Belisarius]

Thanks Alpha for your comments! I'll work with your suggestions.

Hey, when you will post your Organic Race? I have enjoyed a lot the Rage, and expect the same for your next race!

[Alpha Kodiak]

Thank you for your sentiments on the Rage! I'm planning on packaging everything up in the next day or so (tonight, if possible) and posting it as soon as possible thereafter.

[Master Belisarius]

Cool!