Hi
noticed something strange in ver 1.7 (without mercs) that Ive been playing for a while.
I create a random galaxy and set galaxy difficulty to genious. However I use the opponent override and set all opponents down to normal and I disable tech brokering.
I also cheat - played the same set up from start with save file turn 1 so I know all the planets and can route colonizers to them immediatly. I then go for research on the colonies.
In spite of this after a while all the other major races that I meet have basicall 2 levels of research more than I in all trees as well as more ships/bases/money. My conclusion is that either the manual opponent difficulty override doesnt work and that I am limited to normal galaxies or that there is something very strange going on. Can someone please help me with a way to play against normal opponents in a tough galaxy? or perhaps just even explain what it is Im experiancing.
BR
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