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[G&K] Rachni Civilization

Adds the Rachni Hive as a Civilization, led by the Rachni Queen.

The Rachni Queen is the matriarch of the hive-minded, insectoid Rachni species. The largest of her species at about fifty feet long, the Queen is a powerful and intelligent being who guides the soldiers and workers of her brood with a form of telepathic song.

Trait: (The Great Song) +1 production and food from snow and desert tiles. Melee units ignore terrain movement drawbacks

UB: Breeding Facility. Replaces Factory. Grants +10% production, +4 food, and an increased defensive bonus to the city it was built. Costs 2 coal and is expensive to maintain.

UU: Brood Warrior. Requires Arsenal to be built. Replaces Artillery. Doesn't need to set up to attack. 20% stronger attack in friendly territory.

This is the seventh of our planned Mass Effect civs, the Rachni. Why should you be restricted on where you want your people to grow? Why worry about those hills that the other races struggle to navigate? No, the Rachni can survive the harshest of enviroments and navigate the toughest of terrain with ease. Use this advantage to overwhelm your foes and thrive where others can't.

So the Rachni were strange in a number of ways. First we knew that we wanted to concentrate on their ability to survive and thrive where others can't, but we also knew that they were a powerful race that once brought the galaxy to it's knees. We needed a way to translate this and make them unique, so we decided to give them a tactical combat bonus rather than a simple percentage combat bonus, and the yields from snow and desert tiles means they can easily survive anywhere, meaning you'll more or less need to wipe them out to stop them.

Another hard part was creating their UB, which went through many iterations before we settled on the final version of the Breeding Facility. We knew we wanted them to be a production based combat civ, but we also needed a way to help with their growth and to help represent their survivability and intelligence. Because of this we granted them a powerful, but expensive for balance reasons, building. The final thing was spy names and the colour that represented their civ. With a lack of Rachni names we decided to grant their spies various music related names and a purpley-brown civ background, to represent their skin colours, with a blue center to represent the Queen.

As a final note I would like to thank a-iccara, from Deviantart, for her incredible help on creating a custom made Rachni symbol for us to use. The help was invaluable.

This is a dual project and we plan on creating and releasing all these civs (in no particular order) in the near future, and hopefully you'll enjoy them. :)

Volus - released
Hanar - released
Turians - released
Asari - released
Krogan - released
Quarians - released
Drell - released
Salarians - released
Elcor - released
Batarians - released
Collectors - released
Geth - released
Cerberus - released
Vorcha - released
Rachni - released
Protheans - released
Systems Alliance - released
Reapers - released
Terminus Systems - released

Mass Effect and all related names are tm and (c) to Bioware, obviously.

Troubleshooting

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• If the step-by-step guide or the troubleshooting still never fixed your problem, it's a common cache issue, which can be fixed by these steps:
  
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  2) Empty your mod folder (create backups) located at: C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR USERNAME]\My documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS
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  4) Restart steam, subscribe, restart Civ 5.