Curious Cat

Collective race has always been my second choice behind guardian. But as error has wisely pointed out, they can be a pain on servers with lower player base. Your income is heavily dependent on the food prices. But thier ships are awesome.

Hard to get borders sometimes... And food is pretty much their main if not only source of income. They do have +200% to plunder benefit, but again, lack of low PR players makes this difficult for some collectives. The plunder is mainly used to help jumpstart a fledgling new collective empire.

You CAN make $ by taxes...since your pop doubles and a 1000 land barren can equal a planet of 1000 or more depending on housing infra level. There`s a reason this race is Hard.

this is a really good comparison of all the races: http://gc.gamestotal.com/hef.cfm?&6792&f=hef_detail&hi=11427&ch=100

Tax miner can profit up to food price of 42 :)

Well.. The ships comes at a price...

If you are tax viral you wont make money unless food is at 12 or below (As far as i remember) Whereas miners can make money with food up to 32... Thats a massive disadvantage. You can go commercial then, but that will not make you rich by any means.

Very much so!! Picking best three from terran, miner and maru, coupled with borrely, chrion, and cronus gives you power!!! Unlimited power!!! By far the most OPed race in GC. Best to just avoid those virals. :)

Either way, reing ships is a really useful tool if you know what you are doing.

It could be either, chances are if its a older viral it was built. If it was a newer viral it was probably captured.

As a viral you can reverse engineer 9 ships from other races and then build these as a viral. You can have 3 ships from terran, marauder and miner. But remember you can not reverse your decision, so once you have reversed your 9 ships you cant do it again. So pick you ships wisely.

Generally speaking herc is a good choice from terran. Also remember to pick pike and pyth from marauder.