Partaxian

RACE
Population growth: 30%
Income: 40%
Magic: 70%
Attack: -30%
   
SPELLS
Vision
Generate False Info
Hypnotize
No Fear
Reduce Food Production
Electric Storms
Kill Scientists
Create Portal Force Field
Find Target Planets
Space Amazement
Destroy Iron
Sense Defense Station

SPECIALS
Tax Office

bring back pax pop banker! 50% income seems overpowered though

Note: according to stefan magic works with defending.

Partaxian

RACE
Population growth: 10%
Income: 40%
Magic: 70%
Attack: -30%
Research: 20%

SPELLS
Vision
Generate False Info
Hypnotize
No Fear
Reduce Food Production
Electric Storms
Kill Scientists
Create Portal Force Field
Find Target Planets
Space Amazement
Destroy Iron
Sense Defense Station

SPECIALS
Tax Office

Purely Pop Version of the Pax, High magic for Defense for population, decent income bonus and pop growth is same as ui would get for revalons, but as ur not revalons u get the advantages of SA and other ops and op defense.
+ research to help ur popper build con for jumps and econ/welfare for pop growth/income.
Still lacks attacking bonus and 0% speed as it will not be needed for a banker.

Would bring back pop banking im sure, as atm bankers are to vunerable to Hypno/Estorms

Magic Bonus 85%
Attack Bonus -40%
Science Bonus -50%
Income 45%
Population Growth 0%
Speed 0%

Spells:
Vision
Generate False Info
Hypnotize
No Fear
Reduce Food Production
Electric Storms
Kill Scientists
Create Portal Force Field
Find Target's Planets
Space Amazement
Sense System for Defense Station
Destroy Iron

Operations:
Check Allies

Specials:
Tax Offices

Race Points Used:
+60 for Spells
+5  for Operations
-40 for Attack
-50 for Science
+90 for Income
+10 for Tax Office
+85 for Magic

Total Race Points Used: 160

The extreme Magic bonus of 85% is quite a draw for a dedicated special operations player. They have access to every single spell. They are also able to perform Check allies because anyone can figure out that two families with the same tag in their name are allies.

It is also well suited for use as a population banker as 85% magic bonus ensures protection of the population. The 45% income bonus helps as well. The lack of a population bonus is intended to keep the race from being too powerful so that it competes with but does not overpower Revalons. While pop is protected, it grows more slowly. Tax Offices Help with Pop Banking

The -40% attack bonus is a major disadvantage. It's makes sense though in that a magic race would not be known for their M16's or close air support. Throwing a crystal ball at a droid isn't all that effective.

The -50% science bonus is another major weakness. While the magic bonus protects population, the lack of a science bonus limits the players ability to research welfare. This also makes sense as Partaxian's spend most of their time in a dark room polishing their staffs rather then in a well lit laboratory.

[Partaxian
With ancestry dating back between species, Partaxians developed from a mix of Humans and Dreamweavers.]

RACE
Magic 70%
Income 35%
Pop 30% (increased by 30%)
Research -5% (decreased by 5%)

[In the last few centuries they have lost all memory of the science used in combining these races into one, and have also come to shun technology in its more obvious forms.]

SPELLS
All

OPERATIONS
Planetary Infrastructure
Check Allies (added)
Infiltrate (added)
(Removed Spy on Target)
(Removed Investigate portal)

[With inbred magical skills, this race relies on their native talents for combat, wielding Nature's own curse against those who oppose them. Nonetheless, hypocrisy lies within their roots, as a space-faring nation which relies on copying others to keep their foundation up to standard. ]

SPECIAL
Tax Office

I have tried to create a race which lives up to its description, and also is playable in a variety of roles within a team, or as a SS race, as I consider the 3 orginal pre-made races to require that base function.

As a mix of Dreamweavers and Humans they have natural abilities in the use of magic and also in the creation of wealth and other partaxians. Given they have lost the technology of their fore-fathers their research ability is reduced, however having human ancestry their ability to discover and create has not being completly lost. With a primary focus on magic and centuries of research the partaxian race knows every spell ever cast in the universe and can use them with utmost efficieincy. However the hypocrisy at the centre of the partaxian civilization shows through as they maintain an effective spy network and can find out intel on a specific planet or empire or family.

However the partaxian race has never been strong fighters and never really had a knack for offensive tactics and strategies, and of course their shunning of new technology holds them at a severe disadvantage when comming up against empires with the most up to date droid units at their disposal. Also, whilst their spy network is quite extensive, it still does not have all the tricks at it's disposal as a more advanced empire.

In game mechanic terms I have pushed the Pax more towards the pop banker role as a secondary role, whilst keeping the magic role in the limelight. It will not be as good a banker as a rev, or a custom that is designed right, but will give a decent race to pop bank with, and provide the ammo needed to fight other pop bankers. The research negitive is to keep in line with the race description, and more meant to simulate a more technological backwards civilization rather than a slow growing one... hence the -5% as opposed to anything larger. No attack penalty is taken so that partaxian is still a viable SS race (or at least as viable as it has ever been.)

I think the operation changes are somewhat balanced, one useful op in infil, one useless op in check allies and one sometimes useful op in PI (which is becoming less so now that Camaar has it too, or at least slightly less mandatory for a banker.)

Obviously the magical TO is included and the high tech droid unit is excluded in the special features area.

Partaxian

Race bonus
70% magic (Best magic race in the galaxy) [unchanged]
40% income (Eudaimonia) [+5]
10% research (natural talents still shine through, but they would be nearly as high as quantam without shun of technology) [+10]
10% pop growth (Spirituality - family and children are seen as part of self-fulfillment and "to live on after death") [+10]
-40% speed (Severe lack of technology, their spaceships are outdated)  [-40]
-30% attack (see above) [-30]

spells: all (no comment)
ops:
check allies (empathy, can feel who's friends with who)
planetary infrastructure & investigate portal (analytic abilities, they can understand structures and their functions well)
Tax Offices (increasing wealth by magical means? ofc partax has those)

Race points used:
70+80+10+10-20-30+60+15+10=205

How to play: Partaxians now make a good banker race. Good to play in a small galaxy as a pop banker alternative. Revalons or a custom pop banker race will still outdo them in terms of cash production, but the partax has the secondary use as a wizard. A good core sitter that doesnt need that many planets to make lots of cash, mainly an alternative for smaller or medium families that enables them to defend themselves with spells against the bigger fams. Bigger families wont use this as a real banker as it takes ages for them to get spread and many planets, so they'd only use it for special ops if at all.

Partaxian

RACE
Pop growth: +35% [with sole dedication towards wizardry, breeds renewed happiness and prosperity]
Income: 35%
Attack: -30% [magicians have used their supreme wisdom to disband their standing armies and concentrate on building strength around pure aura]
Magic: 70%
   
SPELLS
all [crazy magic FTW!]

OPERATIONS
none [with such a strong focus on wizardry, their obsessiob with the arcane arts have led to the shunning of scientific advancement]

SPECIALS
Tax Office

Partax may now be used as a dedicated pop-based banker race, one of which IC does not yet have.  In comparison to the other pre-made banker race, Revalons, [new] Partaxian yields more defense for population growth, as well as offense in the form of magic; however, Partax' fall back is less maximum income and lack of research bonus.

The above changes would result in the following races being more geared towards these respective roles:

Revalons - CF, agent based banker

Partaxian - LQ, magic based banker

Quantum - RC, agent based resourcer

Wardancer - SS, fleet strength based attacker

Camaar - Pure speed based attacker

This shows there are distinct roles for each of the pre-made races, which fall directly in line with most, if not all, of the common roles found throughout IC: CF banker, pop banker, resourcer, speed attacker, SS

Population growth: -30%
Income: -30%
Research: 50%
Magic: 50%
Speed: 80%
   
Spells
Vision
Hypnotize
No Fear
Reduce Food Production
Electric Storms
Create Portal Force Field
Find Target Planets
Space Amazement
Destroy Iron
Sense Defense Station
    Operations
Specials
Droid

this is a rezy pax with speed for retakes and taking planets off your attackers, one rd in andro this race was voted best wizy opper, 2nd best resourer and 2nd for planet fatness

advantages -- great iron resourcer because they can hold and produce iron and wizys can protect against destroy iron and kill science, Speed, leaves the banking to the bankers

disadvantages -- no agent ops and no attacking bonus

I think some are trying to make this race while staying within the custom race limits. If you were to create the partax it would bring you to -100 on points for a custom race. So I have created this race keeping it at -100 points

RACE
Income: 25% Lowered 10% Pax is a great race for banker but it is also a good ss race still and would like to keep it that way amd we have a banker race already
Magic: 70%
Population: 10% pop bankers as pax are killer and have always been the best But can not go too high still a pop partax could get hit by a resource pax with this based on the larger nw the pop pax will have.
Research:20% Better than none and they are wizards they are good at learning spells they should know a little bit on the research aspect
Attack: -10% wizards are general known to be a little weaker on the battle field with research and no fear this can be gained back fairly easy
Speed: 0%
   
SPELLS
Vision
Generate False Info
Hypnotize
No Fear
Reduce Food Production
Electric Storms
Kill Scientists
Create Portal Force Field
Find Target Planets
Space Amazement
Destroy Iron
Sense Defense Station

OPERATIONS
Planetary Infrastructure
Remove investigate portal( Creates a  disadvantage for ss players but this op still makes the pax stronger so not to make them too strong it is removed.)
Remove Spy on target (mainly because it is same as vision)

SPECIALS
Tax Office

RACE
Pop Growth: 20%  (with new base popgrowth at 5% and this bonus, pop should double in 12 ticks, same as former +50% bonus).
Income: 40% (still 20% less than revalons. Revalons make more, Partaxian make it faster)
Magic: 70%
Research: -
Attack: -30% (to compensate for the 100% speed increase at a planet under the effect of forcefield, same 10 ticks uptime.)

SPELLS with few adjustments
Vision
Generate False Info
Hypnotize
No Fear
Reduce Food Production
Electric Storms ( make it last for 12 weeks instead of 8 weeks, according to increased base pop growth of 5%)
Kill Scientists
Create Portal Force Field ( Partaxian gain 100% speed at the forced portal for the uptime of 10 ticks, compensation for this = -30% attack bonus).
Find Target Planets
Space Amazement
Destroy Iron
Sense Defense Station

OPERATIONS

no special operations as compensation for the 100% speed increase at a forced portal.

SPECIALS

Tax Office

I think we should launch partax as a pure popper, but at the same time, implement some game mechanics that prevents or slows the switch bewtween CF and pop, so that pop bankers will ahve to be pop early on.. thats where you can see who is the good and who is the bad popper

I would post something here but I think AA nailed it.

AA FTW!!!

P.S.  The only thing to add is... not enough pop bankers and a low research for Paxes still cramp viable return to pop banking.  Perhaps lower the nw generated by pop or lower food costs .  What's a civilized Partaxian to do if the only pop to kill belongs to brother Pax, the idea canibablization amonst Partaxians is ghastly .