Any ideas on how to deal with the Grox?
notovny:
I've run two races up to Hero rank, the Drakomir and the Ninjaclastes. THe Drakomir [Scientists]were my first race to reach Space, and when Spodists declared war on them for failing to tithe properly, I used the Graviton Wave in a dastardly planet-stealing scheme that had a couple other races declare war on the not-yet-properly-prepared Drakomir. After skirmishing for awhile, I got tired of fighting off intermittent attacks and had the Drakomir set out on a core expedition.At the time, all they had was interstellar drive 3, so they kept getting blocked by the large gap in their spiral arm. Couldn't even make it past with 4. Pretty much nothing interesting happened to the Drakomir Empire during the expeditions.
Switched to the Ninjaclastes (Warriors), with whom I studiously avoided any Galactic Code Breaches. Got Insterstellar Drive 4 and the Wormhole Key, gathered up a group of allied ships (which was probably a mistake), loaded up on AOE health and the Max Energy , and ran for the core. Made it, but by bringing along friends, the AOE Heal would only work planetside. Combined with the Auto-Targeting, I was at War with the Grox in short order.
Rather than try to make my way back, I decided to get my ship blown up to make my way back to the homeworld. I headed for the nearest planet to the core, and attempted to destroy all installations on it. I succeeded. And as it turns out, that was the Grox Homeworld. I then let the ship be destroyed and flipped back to the homeworld.
A while later, the Ninjaclastes swept through the spiral arm where the Drakomir lived, Allied with them, and slew all the Drakomirs' enemies, and I started playing them again. Soon enough, the Galactic code violation was forgotten, and I ran them up the ranks, kitted them out, and sent them to the core.
With the Drakomir, I turned off the autocannon in Grox Space. I also bribed them a bit, and performed one mission for them. The Grox were neatly in the "Don't Like, but Don't Hate" category. When I made the actual core run, they fired at me all the way, but I made it to the core without them actually declaring war. I then terraformed the former Grox Homeworld to T3, and dropped three colonies and the standard colony accessories on it, fully expecting the Grox to take it back in short order.
More recently, I decided I wanted to go for the Quietus Star achievement. I had the Drakomir trade spice to reach the fifty million sporebucks necessary, and hunted down another Warrior Race for the weaponry discount (Their previous weaponry contact had been exterminated for getting angry about not being paid tribute they never asked for, and being walking bananas) On this trip, I realized it's possible to get to the core without taking a single shot from the grox, even if they hates you.
As long as you never actuallly reach a star system once you enter a forbidden zone, the ships they send after you will never catch up with you. And you can change your destination before you reach a star. Fly towards a star. Pause just before you reach it with "P". Check the distance for your next leg. Then unpause and click on the next star before you arrive. Repeat. I got three quarters of the way into Grox Space without taking a single point of damage from the Grox until I slipped up while trying to navigate around a starless void. If you ever stop moving in the forbidden zone, the ships will catch up with you, and you'll be taking fire then on until you leave.
At any rate, after much travail, the Drakomir ship made it back to their colony on the former Grox Homeworld, which was still churning along fine. I rested up a bit, and then set about achieving Quietus Star.
In the Core, only the Grox can hear you break the Galactic Code.
And they like it. Admittedly, they might have liked it more if I hadn't used their worlds as targets.
Also ran across some Tribal Worlds in Grox Space. Unsure if they'd always been there and thus been non-Grox systems in Grox space, or had sprung up after I destroyed the Grox Planet in the system.
geekgirl:
Does using the Staff of Life break galactic code? Because it certainly destroys all Grox colonies on a planet. I haven't tried it on a non-Grox inhabited world yet though.
notovny:
No, it doesn't. In fact, if you use it on an alien race's world, you'll get a reasonable "Helping Our Planet" relationship bonus for doing so.
Faizah:
On my first run through Grox space I did notice a few non-Grox worlds slipped in among the very large Grox empire. A couple of them may have had pre-space civilisations on them, all I noticed was that I could pause on one or two of them and not get attacked. (Though most were close enough to Grox space that they'd come over and get me if I just sat around in space.)
grig:
The Grox are obnoxious, but they give us Sporians a meaning for our madness so I guess we can keep 'em around... at least until we figure out how to wipe them from the face of the galaxy ^^
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