Race Tier List

[dmlangston]

Hello i'm curious about your guy's thoughts on the races of this game and how would you rank them.

Here's my tier list:

S tier: Cravers,Vaulters

A tier: Hissho,Umbral Choir, Vodyani

B tier: Sophons, United Empire, Riftborn

C tier: Lumeris, Unfallen, Horatio

?: Nakalim

[utilityguy]

In terms of design/lore:

Scary Tier: Umbral Choir, Riftborn, Cravers, Horatio

Intense tier: Hissho, Vodyani, United Empire

Sad Tier: Riftborn(unless they go the kill everything route)

I want to protect them tier: Unfallen

Politics Tier: Lumeris, United Empire

Just Glad to be here tier: Sophons

Fabulous tier: Horatio

I am unworthy to stand in your presence tier: Horatio

Horatio Tier: Horatio

Hotel: Horatio

Tone the smugness down a bit tier: Nakalim

[Bozobub]

I like the Vaulters best, personally, but the UC is probably the strongest faction, overall. I had to stop playing as them; steamrolling the AI literally EVERY game on Endless isn't much fun =p. I Am Horatio is also excellent, especially in the late game, and the Riftborn are also extremely powerful.

If you disagree, I suggest you try a game as the UC, build a Trade HQ, and see what happens ^^'. That should open your eyes (if the superior cloaking, movable home system, hacking bonuses, monster production and science, easy-to-manage happiness, and etc. didn't already convince you - lol).

The Nakalim are...ehhh...pretty bad, actually, although interesting nonetheless. They're a good "gimp" faction, however, when trying to handicap multiplayer games between different-skill humans ^^'. And the Cravers are decent but have stinky late-game performance.

[rui.silva.incp]

Originally posted by Bozobub:

I like the Vaulters best, personally, but the UC is probably the strongest faction, overall. I had to stop playing as them; steamrolling the AI literally EVERY game on Endless isn't much fun =p. I Am Horatio is also excellent, especially in the late game, and the Riftborn are also extremely powerful.

If you disagree, I suggest you try a game as the UC, build a Trade HQ, and see what happens ^^'. That should open your eyes (if the superior cloaking, movable home system, hacking bonuses, monster production and science, easy-to-manage happiness, and etc. didn't already convince you - lol).

The Nakalim are...ehhh...pretty bad, actually, although interesting nonetheless. They're a good "gimp" faction, however, when trying to handicap multiplayer games between different-skill humans ^^'. And the Cravers are decent but have stinky late-game performance.

I never allow Cravers to deplete core planets.
Always ferry them away just shy of depleting high production planets.

That kind of helps a lot with their supposed late game performance. I have nice performance in systems with lots upgrades (built when cravers were there) managed by whatever population I could bring there.

Cravers will stay on low production planets in late game.

[rui.silva.incp]

My rank will be:

The I will cleanse the Galaxy super fast tier: Cravers, Vodyani and Riftborn

I can still be quite OP: Sophon, United Empire

Can steamroll if given the right galaxy: Horatio

Still Ok: Lumeris and Unfallen

Did not try DLC´s yet

[utilityguy]

Originally posted by rui.silva.incp:

I never allow Cravers to deplete core planets.
Always ferry them away just shy of depleting high production planets.

That kind of helps a lot with their supposed late game performance. I have nice performance in systems with lots upgrades (built when cravers were there) managed by whatever population I could bring there.

Cravers will stay on low production planets in late game.

Not gonna lie, whenever I play cravers I play suuuper sub-optimally 'cause I never actually want to do any of the slavery. Which means transport every craver to a empty five planet system and keep only minor factions growing throughout the empire.

But about the depletion thing, getting behemoth terraformation tech helps a lot when you want to take full advantage of the cravers population bonus--along with a craver hero's final craver ability that greatly boosts FIDSI output of the system. I can easily get close to 15K influence production on a large enough system with a craver hero fully unlocked(and the right Influence luxuries).