As per the title... I can't really see any differences besides aquatic being able to colonize ocean worlds and terraform 1 tile per period...
I saw another thread that said aquatic lose access to some wonders... but is there any other differences?
Seems like aquatic is straight up better...
Aquatics can terraform 3 extra tiles and colonize water worlds.
They dont have acces to Brindles Observatory (+1 planet wonder), but have acces to the Central Mine (+1 Raw Production - planetary unique).
They use different research improvements:
- carbon: Xeno Research Lab line -> 5/7,5/10/12,5% + 2,5 % per LVL
- aquatic: Learning Center line -> 5/7/12,5/20/30% +1% per LVL
So Carbons have better research early on (because of the higher adjacency bonus), but Aquatics have the better late game research.
Aquatics also have better farms and better morale buildings and one additional pop growth building (which was useless before, but might be useful in patch 2.2.1)
I think Aquatics are way better then Carbons. There are only a few situations (map setups) in which Carbons would be better (very small maps or very few planets).
Brindles Observatory is very powerful. I always rush it if possible.
- it gives a new Pop10 planet --> 3.3 raw production instantaneously + the new planet immediately contribute to my ship production
- its 3+ research adjacency is a lot for early game, when placed next to the computer core.
Population is nerfed so much in Crusade, that the strategy for aquatic/synthetic need to be reconsidered.
for raw production to go from 2 to 4 from pop, you need to raise the pop from 4 to 16.
For that, you need 1.3 cities, 1.3 farms and moral buildings.
and wait for 60-120 turns.
The opportunity cost is quite high. So I don't prioritize on building cities. It gets even worse for 16+ pops.
Build asteroid mines for raw production.
Thanks Heuristicist and x-cessive. Appreciate the info. Is there an easy way to find out what each trait does without having to load up and search for the differences?
I think there is no other way than to look directly in the XMLs (RaceTraitDefs.xml, CultureTraitDefs.xml, AbilityDefs.xml, did I forget one?) in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations III\DLC\EXP2_Crusade\Game (or wherever else you installed Steam).
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