9 small Altarian Prophecy Questions for the staff

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Hi, I love it. I have 9 small questions though to clear some things up.

1. The 2 new races have their own unique intelligent ai's, correct? They play diff than the previous races. Yes?

2. When using the scenario editor: If you do not enter anything under starting funds..what do you start with? 0 or some default amount?

3. Scenario editor: What do the 3 minor race options actually do? can you explain more? (Them starting the game or not, and the other 2)

4. Scenario editor: If you do not select anything for 2 major races, they are left out of the game, right?

5. Can you play a game with all 7 races? If so, what would be the best setting for that? Large Universe or even bigger?

6. Will there be a manual or pdf for this update?

7. Haven't gotten to the minor races yet. Do they still have an emblem or do they have an alien portrait?

8. Do trade embargos anger the race you are embargoing?

9. The default for both new races are pure evil right?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

1) Yes, they have a different AI than the other major AI players.

2) 1000 bc, just like the non-expanded Gal Civ.

3) Allow Minor races to aggressively colonize means that they will colonize planets outside their star system.

 Allow Minor races to invade.  If you don't check this, they won't send transports to your planets.

Disable Minor Races disables the minor races that get created at the start of a new game, and also the random ones that get appear part way through the game.  But it doesn't disable the Arnor, the Pirates, the space monsters, or other races created by linked events.

4) The checkboxes on the Teams tab enable/disable the aliens. If you don't set their intelligence or morality, it uses the default values, and they are teamless if you don't set a team.

5) Yes you can play with all the races enabled.  It's possible to play on a small map (possibly tiny also) but on anything smaller than medium I would recommend making a custom map if you want to play with a smaller map. 

6) I think so.  I'm not sure what the status of that is right now.

7) Minor races still use the logos instead of portraits.  I think that I did fix them to use the correct logos in the diplomacy screen, etc, but I know that I wasn't able to get the star logos working.

8) No, the AI doesn't get mad at you for putting an embargo on them.  However, as always, if they think that they can take you and you're not trading with them, your relations with them will start dropping and they'll start shaking you down for your lunch money.

9) Yep.   

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