by alepsycho
Ok, we managed to play with the other straight forward races, and the Rho Indi lost (22 points) with great advantage from me (Mechanema: 43 points) and my other friend (Orion Hegemony: 42 points).The greatest problem were the exploration, the hexes he discovered had no ancient and only had one discovery and no planet, very poor, he used the discoveries not as 2 victory points but in the end it's uses wasn't really useful.
Mechanema won because I managed to get advanced mining and explored the strenth of my race that was to build more ships with cheaper prices, my fleet was great.
Indeed, it was a shame that the hexes exploration can fuck up the game so bad, the Rho Indi was stuck in the poor explorations and couldn't get enough resources, he invaded me with success because I was faced against the danger of the Orion Hegemony that got the middle sector before me and I managed to capture it in time, even capturing the border hexes from me, the Rho Indi was too week against my star bases and I could stop them from reaching my inner sectors and managed to defend the middle, it was a close winning.
But ok, the Rho indi got fucked this time, maybe they are not as overpowered at all.