Melchitt

I think that explains it then. Going to retry now but without spiral galaxy!

One other thing. About 30 turns later, I encountered the Iridium Corp. They were following a similar power growth curve to the Drengin. At turn 114: Drengin: 3291 Iridium: 1854 Terrans: 442 (after just wiping-out the Thalans) Altarans: 117 Yor: 169 Iconians: 154 (my race - now lagging behind)

Yes, good idea to look at trade screen - this gives a clearer picture. When this screenshot was taken: They had 95 ships to my 25. Some of their ships were like: Assault (Medium), 170HP, 33 Beam Def., 48 Kinetic Atk. while mine were maybe 1/4 of that. They had 20 colonies to my 9. A lot of my nearby systems had dead planets and nothing above PQ 12. They had a PQ 28 with an average of 15 or so. I usually play on Tiny / Small galaxies and

Tech trading disabled. No anomalies. Godlike difficulty. Just got a garbled message from the Drengin (no translator at the time). A quick look at the graphs shows this! [url=http://postimg.org/image/yykd14iij/full/][img]http://s1.postimg.org/p19c82awv/Screenshot_1.png[/img][/url] How? They almost have more power than all other races combined. The power level is the same in all categories.