I have a quick question about the sowers race, I'm making a custom faction but I'm wondering if tolerant is a good skill to get.

Well it's the ability to colonize ANY planet, with a 25% malus until the appropriate tech studied. So for early expansion it's great. You though need to manage happiness abit more since you may populate lava, gaseous ect, early.

I've experimented with this trait a few games now and it's one of those things that is much better read, less used. It is nice for when you want to secure rare amazing planets before you have the tech to get them but you will quickly hate the micromanaging of a very unhappy planet that produces so little for so many race traits. I don't feel as if its a good tradeoff for how much it costs at level 2 compared to such a huge handicap for just level 1. You'll spend more dust then needed on planet improvements to deal with the population.



This is my opinion of course. For Rabid expansion, it can't be beat and in the eye of a skilled player it can give a nice advantage.