In my recent poll I attempted to find out which standard race is the most powerful when played by a human in MP. But, most of the answers indicated that custom races are the most powerful. OK, let us drill down into that. Some traits, or trait combos, are very powerful when you make a custom race. Which are the most powerful?

Legendary heroes is good.

Legendary Heroes, bar none.

Is it true that the reason Legendary Heroes is powerful, is that you get the L2 admin with Civil Engineer right at turn 2-3? Is there any other benefit from this?

This is the only benefit. Without it legendary heroes pretty useless for the price.



Nothing is overpowered from your list in MP. And personally i think blockade breakers+eternal war is pretty weak.

One thing about endless war and blockade breakers is that its really only useful to get blockade breakers is you plan on exploring other systems but then not conquering them. As someone with eternal war any smart opponent is going to meet you see they can't do negotiations and immediately be hostile. So your only reasonable option is to conquer, and trade does nothing once you take over a system.



What you need to realize is someone with eternal war is effectively always at war, I know non eternal war people can be at cold war but usually its really not a cold war what it is is you haven't researched peace yet. Few non eternal war factions ever use cold war as it is meant. What this means for those who have eternal war is you often have much fewer systems that you could trade with as a good amount will be yours by then and also your scouts often will be destroyed quickly so the only exploration you will get is from your armadas conquering.



Blockade breakers is much more effective if you have a non eternal war race that is also somewhat aggressive, as you will be doing short wars then cold war/peace to intimidate people. It is also very good for passive races so that they can continue trade even with races that attack them.

I'm a little unusual in that I never attack anyone or really go for any victory other than scientific. My favorite faction traits are Scientists 3 and all the ones that let you start with certain technologies.

Knowledge Gathering with Hissho or any militaristic trait/faction. Especially in early game very (too) powerful, that`s why we banned it in our MP games.

Last I play MP there was someone who has the craver faction and build realy fast a fleet

(he could do that because he hase the craver-affinity which allows him to build at the first few turns a fleet)with which he captured reallyfast the systemens of mine and the others

so I tink if you play an aggrasive-stile you also can win fast

but it is in my opinion not that much fun