I pretend like a "standard galactic week" is a month long. :shrug:
Maybe this is left over from when all ships cost maintenance?
So what do they even do in the game anymore? Are they just there to be conquered for now, or what? And what's imbalanced about trading with minors? Shouldn't the minors be eager to sell/gift some the stuff we give them in order to maintain relations with their other nearby major neighbors? I always assumed the techs I gave to a minor race would end up in enemy hands eventually.
I'm sure they're looting as they destroy stuff. I'm also sure starbases and military ships would self-destruct if they were Distant worlds makes pirates into civilizations of their own. It's cool and it gives you some strategic options, but the increased interactivity means you spend a lot of time early-game dealing with pirates. That works really well in Distant Worlds because planet management is much simpler. GalCiv has this early-game buildu