zesuila
07-12-2003, 03:24 PM
I don't know why so many people speaks against the Ithkul and are afraid that they take over their empire. This is a wrong concept(Or bad play).
In my empire(Tachidi, Normal difficulty, Large galaxy 2 arms) i have plenty of races(Cynoids, Nommo, Darlok, Alkari, Psilon, Elder Race, Silicoid) and i have the Ithkul too. They don't ever come to any planet with no empty regions and they even go where i tell them!
I use them to colonize worlds that are good for them just like any other races and they don't go to other planets to eat all the pop. Here is what i do for colonization purposes:
You need a lot of colony ships of different races so you can colonize most kind of planet. I create Squads(4 ships) of colony TF to send to a planet. I generally use 2 squads of the same race to colonize a planet(8 colony ships). What i do when i want to colonize more than 1 planet in a system is that i send enough squads to colonize every planet at the same time. Then i do not activate the migration button until the race on the planet has taken all the regions. Then i activate it so that others of that race will migrate to this planet.
Generally speaking, it takes 3-5 turns for the race to fill in the empty regions of the planet and that is faster than the time it takes for any race to find your planet interesting and migrate there on their own(ithkul also).
So i colonize whole system in the same turn even with Ithkul colony ships and they keep to their own world.
So you see, my empire has plenty of races and the Ithkul are just another race who do not eat the others.
Of course, you need to be big enough to produce colony ships like there is no tomorrow, but it works just fine. So people fearing the Ithkul and glassing their planets or giving them away just don't know how to use them effectively.
When you start your game and you do not have a big empire, then Ithkul can be a problem because you do not fill the regions on a planet fast enough, but the problem go away by itself when you are big enough(I would say with 15-20 planets and more).
In my empire(Tachidi, Normal difficulty, Large galaxy 2 arms) i have plenty of races(Cynoids, Nommo, Darlok, Alkari, Psilon, Elder Race, Silicoid) and i have the Ithkul too. They don't ever come to any planet with no empty regions and they even go where i tell them!
I use them to colonize worlds that are good for them just like any other races and they don't go to other planets to eat all the pop. Here is what i do for colonization purposes:
You need a lot of colony ships of different races so you can colonize most kind of planet. I create Squads(4 ships) of colony TF to send to a planet. I generally use 2 squads of the same race to colonize a planet(8 colony ships). What i do when i want to colonize more than 1 planet in a system is that i send enough squads to colonize every planet at the same time. Then i do not activate the migration button until the race on the planet has taken all the regions. Then i activate it so that others of that race will migrate to this planet.
Generally speaking, it takes 3-5 turns for the race to fill in the empty regions of the planet and that is faster than the time it takes for any race to find your planet interesting and migrate there on their own(ithkul also).
So i colonize whole system in the same turn even with Ithkul colony ships and they keep to their own world.
So you see, my empire has plenty of races and the Ithkul are just another race who do not eat the others.
Of course, you need to be big enough to produce colony ships like there is no tomorrow, but it works just fine. So people fearing the Ithkul and glassing their planets or giving them away just don't know how to use them effectively.
When you start your game and you do not have a big empire, then Ithkul can be a problem because you do not fill the regions on a planet fast enough, but the problem go away by itself when you are big enough(I would say with 15-20 planets and more).