Although Zik is the only race in this game that plays truly different than the others; I kind of like this idea. The problem for Ziks is, though, that they cannot gain many ships while attacking big planets. (They are active most of the time.) Also it is very hard to approach someone 1.5 times your value with stealing ships.
In my opinion zik and cat won too often the past rounds. Ter and Xan always stay behind.... why don't we tweak them a bit? (eg. xan not appearing on unit scans, except roid ships, which may be a test for speedgames. Terran... dunno, they don't have to be special. Just raise their stats
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