Abilities

Abilities are distinct from traits in that they represent the culture of a given race, rather than any innate characteristics. Civilizations can pick any two abilities at the start of the game.

Galactiv Civilizations III Abilities

Name	Description	Requirements
Adaptable	Can colonize tier 1 extreme worlds.
Amphibious	Can colonize water worlds early game, with no penalty. Can terraform 1 extra water tile each tech age. Converted to a Race Type in Crusade.	Mercenaries expansion
Ancient	Gets Research from Precursor Artifacts.
Coercive	Planets can adjust their planetary Production manually.
Colonizers	First improvement on all new colonies is free.
Discreet	Receives a free random tier 1 mercenary every game, when they first encounter the Bazaar.	Mercenaries expansion
Engineers	Shipyard production decays at half of the normal rate.
Entrepreneurs	Trade Routes give Approval bonuses to both parties and 2 extra Trade Routes
Intuitive	Starts with free Research (250 research)
Knowledgeable	Starts knowing the location of other homeworlds
Paranoid	Free drones defend planets, shipyards and starbases
Prolific	Planets start with 100% more population than is brought on the Colony ship
Scavengers	Have a 25% chance capturing the ships of your vanquished foes.	Revenge of the Snathi DLC
Starfaring	All starbases get the first module free. All ships are immune to Nebula
Synthetic	Disables Food and natural Growth. Instead an Assembly project is used to produce Citizens. Converted to a Race Type in Crusade.
Unrelenting	Invasions never cost credits
Unwavering	Colonies are much harder to Culture flip
Vigilant	Starbase have larger Areas of Effect. Enemy ships are slowed, and player ships gain an attack bonus, while in the area of any starbase.	Mercenaries expansion
Warriors	Ignore 10% of all damage done to their ships. All weapons have 10% longer range.	Mercenaries expansion
Wealthy	Starts with tourism enabled and with extra credits (+2500bc)
Zealots	Get an Ideology point each time you invade a planet (15 points to dominant Ideology)

Crusade Abilities

Crusade changed, replaced, and added many abilities in the game.

Name	Description
Adaptable	Can colonize Aquatic, Frozen, and Barren worlds.
Amphibious	Converted to a Race Type.
Ancient	Gets Research from Precursor Artifacts. Recieves access to Precursor technologies.
Angry	They're just very angry. Start with a military vessel.
Bureaucrats	Starts game with extra Administrators.
Certain	Believes their philosophy should be universal. Has increased influence and special planet improvements.
Colonizers	First improvement on all new colonies is free.
Coercive	Removed; production sliders have been replaced by Citizens.
Conquerors	Legions start at twice as good as everyone else's.
Cybernetic	Gives access to more powerful technologies and improvements for races who are not afraid to interface with superior technologies.
Determined	Ships get +5 tiles of range.
Discreet	Receives a free random tier 1 mercenary every game, when they first encounter the Bazaar.
Engineers	Shipyard and asteroid production decays at half of the normal rate.
Experienced	All ships recieve 25% more experience points from battles.
Entrepreneurs	Replaced by Traders.
Heroic	Starts with War College technology, bonuses to legions defending planets.
Hopeful	Believes any civilization capable of space travel must be a potential friend. Higher morale on planets.
Intuitive	Starts with free Research (250 research).
Inventive	Starts with an Engineer citizen and a Constructor ship.
Knowledgeable	Starts knowing the location of other homeworlds.
Paranoid	Free drones defend planets, shipyards and starbases.
Prolific	Planets start with 50% more population than is brought on the Colony ship. Population grows much faster.
Resourceful	Starts with some useful resources.
Scavengers	Have a 25% chance capturing the ships of your vanquished foes.
Slavers	Gain access to slaving technologies and earn additional Idealogy points each time you conquer a world.
Sneaky	Starts with Espionage technology.
Starfaring	Ships immune to nebula and has access to special Hyperion improvements.
Synthetic	Converted to a Race Type.
Time Travelers	Traveled back to this time from the future. Great tech, no infrastructure.
Traders	Starts with freighter, access to special trade related improvements, access to Acquisition technologies.
Unrelenting	Invasions never cost credits.
Unwavering	Colonies are much harder to Culture flip.
Vigilant	Starbase have larger Areas of Effect. Enemy ships are slowed, and player ships gain an attack bonus, while in the area of any starbase.
Warriors	Ignore 10% of all damage done to their ships. All weapons have 10% longer range.
Wealthy	Starts with 1000 more credits. Planets start with an extra production point.
Xenophobic	Not interested in expanding. Wants to build a small, secure empire.