So, first of all, Hi.

I've been playing for none too long so far, but what I most definitely noticed is that games aren't really.... well, slow, if I set them to be just that.

I like games that can keep me busy for a weekend, and while I've just fought myself up to serious difficulty, all games so far inevitably seem to end with a non-military victory, last game by a faction I hadn't even encountered yet.

So, are there any settings to slow those down without outright disallowing them?

On a related note, any option on settings or inis that makes "spam colony ships like it's the only thing you can click on" not the only viable tactic for the first 50 or so turns?



Regards

In general you can set all the victory conditions enabled if you want to go for a military victory only. I also assume that very large galaxies with poor/little planets and strong pirates as well as rare exploration events would lead to a very warfare based gameplay. Why? Because you have to really choose which planets you want to colonize, you are required to research much more to keep up with the bad planets.