Yor Lack of Diplomacy

I'm curious as to how Yor players -- in the context of larger scale games -- deal with their comparatively horrible diplomacy. Diplomacy, at least in my experience, can make a big difference between having decent relations with almost everyone, and having a number of races constantly breathing down your neck threatening war. It also makes it harder to get good values when trading with other races, brokering techs, talking other races into attacking each other, etc. Do you just militarize early and heavily to keep the other races submissive?

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I always adopt a tactic of complete isolationalism when I play as the Yor. I find a quiet corner of the map and use complete self sufficiancy to militarize fast. I think the morale and defection bonuses the Yor get mean that economic policy can always be shifted towards greater industrial might.

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Two answers for you. The short one is just trying to answer your question directly, the second explaining what I do/when I do it with the Yor. I usually play TA on painful with immense galaxies.

Short answer: I usually try to get good relations with a couple of the weaker evil races (who are cowed by my military). Mostly I'm going for a big military and I expect to be at war with most of the galaxy, since I start wiping out minors and whoever is close to me. I focus pretty heavily on weapons tech and bigger ships once I have my economy up.

Longer answer: When I play the Yor, I focus on high production and research. Right away, I research a few techs to boost my pop growth, then I research to their 3rd tier econ tech, where they get efficiency centers. Next I go up the diplo branch to Trade so I can build an econ capital on my homeworld and an efficiency center on every planet I own. That takes care of econ for a good while, esp if I've picked up some money from my flagship. After that I focus on weapons/planetary invasion stuff and bigger ships with occaisional engine techs/sensors/morale/factories thrown in. The key is to strike early and as hard as possible once the colony rush is over.

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Thats the problem I seem to run into so many times not just for the yor who have poor diplomacy but any of the evil races, in a game with alliances set on they don't ally or seem to have much relations with anyone If you play with evil races don't put terran or altarian these 2 races really unbalance the game since terran gets everyone to ally him and altarian gets everyone to gang up on the evil races so they are wiped out very early..

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