Why not trade for influence points in advance of a vote?

The thing is the two evil civs are just hopelessly outnumbered by all the nuetrals and goodies. It's all fun and games when your neutral, but be evil and it's a nightmare; especially when you get limited to two trade routes.

The U.P. is a ROYAL PAIN IN THE ASS for evil civs. Yes, I said it again.

But, it's just so unfair. All good for neutrals and goodies but the bonuses from planets arent enough to cancel out low trade routes or making you pay 10% of your income to humanitarian aid.

Really sucks when you pay it to other civs.WHO CARES IF THEY ARE UNFORTUNATE? It's THEIR problem and THEY have to deal with it.

WEll Vinraith, I love being evil. They have the best achievement in the game: MIND CONTROLL CENTER. That thing is awesome! But, if your the only evil civ, and your constantly getting screwed over by the U.P., leave it. I haven't left it yet though.

UP is the main ballancer for the goodies. does it suck for you when you get your traderoutes snatched? of course. but you can poach 1bc per route per turn from EVERYONE ELSE that travels thru your territory. i assume this holds true even if you leave the UP. and there are always starbases to bring in trade income from their routes as well. in my experience you usually make more money from that and the glorious MCC if you put it on a good planet. buck up chum, evil is doing just fine moneywise. if you want to complain about something complain about sorry ally, the korx. they seem to have a halflife of about 1 game year

i played the yor for quite a few games, the downside of evil never slowed me down much. just note the problems and account for them in your strategies. and do things to maintain your scant allies(at first > ) and concider turning off tech trading next game, it tends to help the good and neutral more than the evil.

The Korx get stepped on not because they're evil, but because they're stupid.

What the heck is a starbass?

They can be a pain in the "lower area" at times.

The United Planets can have a very wide range of effects - it is usually a minor nagging thing that can give you some small advantage or disadvantage, but occasional, game-changing issues do come up (like ending ALL wars, sharing technology, etc.). It is up to you whether or not it is important enough to waste time, space, and money controlling the United Planets - if you make that your primary objective/commitment, you should be able to easily do it.
Evil civilizations are meant to rule alone. I mean, come on, they're Evil (TM)! The Drengin want to conquer the galaxy, the Korx want to sell the galaxy, and the Yor want to exterminate the galaxy - don't expect them to recieve a boon in their foriegn affairs department. Besides, the initial planetary bonuses (which sometimes have such a neglible effect that you would only really want to get them if you were trying to be evil), trade route payments, free starbase modules, and wonderful Evil Galactic Wonders. Mind Control Center doubles your planetary income on an empire-wide basis! That's worth more than your trade routes, I think

Hi!

I love being evil. They have the best achievement in the game

Hum, you want all the bonuses form evil, but don't accept also the maluses? AFAIK such a behaviour is called immature.


Plese remember:

There's no such thing as free lunch in this universe.

BR, Iztok

/rolleyes x 43

What does that mean?

I like the UP vote set-up.

I'd suggest, as others, get more influence by culture OR bribe the minors for it by threatening their existance! I get a decent influence this way (when a evil player).

Also, what is Necromancy by definition?