Hey, I played a few games and have a few concerns about the new hybrid plots.
1) All you get is "there's an unusually strong hybrid in the galaxy", and something about a strange signal being picked up, but it really doesn;t prepare you for the threat of the Dyson antagonizer. I mean once it goes up you have about 15 minutes before you lose the game, and you're screwed if you don't have good scout coverage at that point.
2) The amount of time you get before you the antagonizer goes up feels perfect at difficulty 7, but at 9 it's extremely hard to get enough scout coverage before it goes up on an 80 planet galaxy. I mean it's supposed to be hard, but the dyson sphere is an order of magnitude more threatening than the AI or hybrids alone at 9, which doesn't seem right. Seems like the amount of time before the antagonizr plot kicks in should scale with the difficulty or something.
BTW I haven't played since the Spire beta, which I really enjoyed, and it's improved a hell of a lot since then, you guys are great. Need to kick out another expansion so I can give you more money
