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Really? The few I participated I was lucky that there was a diversity of ages, genders… with everyone participating equally. That is something I have always like about practicing sports, that you get in contact as equals with very different people, while at school or work it is always people pretty much like you.

The problem with these games (like Stellaris, which is also on offer and I would recommend with the same warning) is that the base game lacks many interesting features, which you only get if you buy all the DLCs.

Thanks! I did read ‘The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet’ a while ago, but didn’t know where to continue with Becky Chambers. I will take a look at that one.

True! I think the depictions of daily life in the Culture was what I enjoyed the most in Banks books.

The whole Hainish Cycle from Ursula K Le Guin may fit here, in the sense that all human-like ‘aliens’ are the offsprings of the colonies planted by a primitive human civilization.