Are you talking core ships or just the large sized hulls? If its the hulls in the ship designed then its got to be a bug, if its the core ships you may need other techs (but just design your own)
First thing I do is set the tax rate as high as possible without dropping approval into the negatives. Second thing I do is I adjust the productivity so that I'm not losing more than 50bc a turn. I change military production to nothing and give research the majority of my funding. Then I purchase one factory, possibly set up another factory or a xeno research lab depending on what my plan for that game is. Either way my first 3 buildings wil
Yeah I've noticed that the Yor are usually on par with other races, or get wiped early. Though if they do last longer they end up quite powerful. Though the same can be said of almost all of the militant races.
It could pick it out of the most powerful, or randomly from the most powerful faction's world with a preferance for worls above rank 6.
I've found that when I donate to minor races even saving reloading doesn't make them do anything with them.
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Yeah its odd, I don't have the CE either yet I got the CE content and the other CE downloadable stuff.