This is a great point regarding opponent familiarity / archetype as a key anchor for narrative.
I know there are some prebuilt races for the player to use, but is there a feature to force only prebuilt races to spawn? I recall one can force this with the races they’ve made, but not the ones PDX prebuilt. Has that changed?
I’d like if there was a slider for this in game setup - 70% of empires should use prebuilt races, the others can be random. There should also be an option to save a random race from a current game into the pool of prebuilt races - I recall this requires copying all the info down and then building it yourself next time!
It would be great to ensure your biggest rivals / allies from the last game show up again, so you can see the same personality/competitive strengths in a new sandbox with different neighbors. This raises the point that reusing prebuilt races should also force the same AI personality - is that how it works now?