I found that there were easy ways to just advance way too quickly.
Trading brought in very fast gold, and then purposely losing fights against the biggest cities would give you huge amounts of war points, while giving very little negative effect to you.
Anyone complaining about glitches or unsolvable rooms clearly wasn't accepted into the Galactic Alliance...
The game is fine, and finishing with a perfect 170 IQ is very possible.
They just do not know that the FoE theme - is pain and violence, not the sun and rainbows