Hello,

after a few hundred hours playing Empire, Lumeris, Sophon, Unfallen, Rifborn on Endless level with success, I tryed Voydani the last 2 games.

1st game I set difficulty to "middle of the bar". After several turns, I felt I was behind others, I didn't understand everything, and I didn't catch up until turn 150 (other factions, I start to be dominant at turn 80/100 on endless difficulty).

2nd game, I set difficulty to "just before endless". I was looking closely now what things do ; I don't know if I got a really crappy system, crappy nerby system, 1st minor discovered at turn 20, buggy things or all of that but :

- I fell even way harder behind, and just 2 systems by turn 50-60.

- I just can't figure how to consistently make my pop grow. I have essence, the problem is negative food ; calculation seems to be completly random ; I presume I can't make my pop +1 with "holy thing" ("proliferation sacrée" in my native language) when total food is negative because when I do it just depop when it is built ; so I build before that a building that do (let's say, I don't remember the exact values) +10 on cold +5 on hot +10 on planet ; I have a system that say -7 food / turn and I have 2 cold and 1 hot. I build the building, result : -14 food/turn ! WTF ???

Then I save, reload : show -12food/turn ! reload again : -9 ! reload again : -13...

Next turn (nothing changed in system) : sometimes +3food/turn, sometimes -15food/turn, in fact you never know, so what is wrong ?

And when you try to pop up, you never know if you will get population or not, and if you get it, just pray, you may not be able to have it for more than a few turns...

That's pretty insane...

The main problem is I can't pop up even if I have the essence for, because food, and if I build food building it can go worse.

Am I blatantly missing something, or is this faction completly bugged ?

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