I tried the scientific treaty on many occasions, and it has never been cost efficient influence wise. In addition, having a scientific treaty with someone leading in science feels odd as he will win without you even in alliance (he will just leave when he got the 4 endless tech).

 I have a suggestion that could help tackle the impossibility of a scientific alliance victory and give meaning to the scientific treaty.

The effect would be for each player: -30% of science and give a bonus to the partner equal to 50% of your science production (before reduction). If your partner has the same amount of science, it will both gives you +20%. You really are mutualizing research with your partner. The numbers can be calibrated for the number of partners and/or by major races on the map.

The ideas are:

- You can have a meaningful bonus out of it, if your partner is doing science too.

- If you are leading in science, you are helping your partner following you and therefore increasing the chance of him getting 2 endless techs before you reach the fourth (in the case of alliances).

- If you are producing a lot of science and in an alliance with race with other goals, it will be the cost you have to pay, your contribution, to help the alliance winning in supremacy (as it is the only viable wining possibility in alliance to me).

Let the vodyani raze the academy home system as per the quest; it's an objective for a quest branch but you can't do it since the academy is a "real" empire now and has a capital. And you can't raze capitals..

In fact, Please un-trash the academy in general, it's a horribly-designed mechanic. There are cool ideas but god the implementation is awful. Resource contribution is extremely RNG-heavy, and the fleets/ship really upsets balance of power in the early game (and not in a good way, since it's rarely the weak empires that get the fleets).

Kill the Pending bug. I know there's an easy fix that works in most cases (dismiss all reports) but ffs.

I'm guessing it's just me but my install's vodyani theme is corrupted or something and sounds extremely low-quality no matter what I do (headphone mode or not, surround sound or not..). Like if my headphones were plugged only halfway into the port. It's only that theme specifically, everything else is fine, and no I'm not referring to the effect when you enter a menu. It permanently sounds like it's underwater playing through a wooden speaker.

Balance hacking a bit -- I've absolutely wrecked early-game empires by hacking the capital and spawning pirates. 1-2pop turning into pirate fleets isn't a huge deal but yes it really is when the system in question has 3 population total and no defense fleets yet.

Riftborn are definitely certainly very fair and balanced.

Can we get some more empire colors pls<3 Ik there are mods, so it can't be a very hard thing to implement..

Law balance pass would be nice, some are worthless while others priceless.

Vodyani AI needs help, they always get wrecked because they can't expand like an aggressive player (in my experience at least). **The AI specifically, not the race, the race is almost as fair and balanced as the riftborn...

Give Horatio some love.

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Because they live above planets, they exploit all of them at once and ignore planet size, at the expanse of loosing ability to terraform or specialize said planets, and negate anomalies. Behemoths included. It's by design.