XAPBob wrote on Sat, 07 March 2015 20:00

OK, we're busy enough to ask if anyone thinks the various racial penalties are reasonably balanced...

Well, I'd prefer a different penalty for CA - I was wanting to play a non-monster one, that would be part of an alliance and provide Orbital Adjusters to it's allies, rather than be a go-it-alone economic superpower.
But that habitat requirement is incompatible with that - or with any decent race design at all, I opine.