by alepsycho
Mike got exactly what I mean, of course there is a dumb way to play the Rho Indi but their strategy lies on getting MONEY over everything else, they can even avoid to take an action just to have more money next round, so they can exchange money for other resources, and they battle against ancients early, getting the better hexes and discoveries, and manage to have more chance on getting the 4 value reputation tiles, that I consider to be easier to find in the beginning of the game than latter when every player loot for this high value reputation.They can easily abandon even their starting sector later on, sinse it does value 0 victory points, of course in the begining it is suicide sinse this sector is their fountain of resources, what I mean is that this race is a kind of nomad, so the problem is not even they controlling lots of hexes, because I know they cannot settle too easily with only 2 colony ships.
Thematicaly I love this race, it is very polarized, not everything in the middle, have great disadvantages and great advantages ratter than small disadvantages and small advantages.