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Ridas
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Influence cost would be the same if you go system by system, while being able to get mining and research in it. Only reason to skip systems is to rush the AI to a choke point.
Otherwise streamline your expansion down the highway basically until you hit another borders at a choke, while ignoring the side systems , that lead nowhere until later.
Otherwise streamline your expansion down the highway basically until you hit another borders at a choke, while ignoring the side systems , that lead nowhere until later.
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A note, chokepoints work a little differently now - a few patches ago they changed it so that if another civ has access through your space, and you don't have 2 consecutive systems claimed, the civ will build past your chokepoint. So for example, in your western choke (Scorum) you need to also claim Manthall, otherwise if that civ has open borders, they will leapfrog you and take Manthall themselves if they claim the system closest to Scorum. Same goes for your northern choke (Fillamir) - either claim the system north of that or south of that to ensure you don't get leapfrogged
And yeah, not having a contiguous snake to the chokepoint is prohibitively expensive from an influence standpoint - plus it makes you weaker because you're missing out on all of the economy nodes along the way (which makes you vulnerable and the AI might attack).
Also, side note; Breggar has primitives on it - you should claim that system ASAP and invade. Free world + population + (hopefully) a different planetary preference is a huge power spike early game. You get between 10-20% more population early, save on a Colony ship and the development time to settle a planet, plus unlock more planets to settle for the cost of 1-2 army units
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khorum
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Wellp my first Federations playthrough just came to an end. Was doing super well, my federation controlled 40% of the galaxy....then the Scourge landed EXACTLY on my core worlds, including my capital, my Ecumenopolis and my ringworld construction site... I did poorly enough on the scout wave but the main force arrived with 250k stacks and that's that.
Playing a different game and I found this pretty nice system with two primitive societies on tomb worlds with tomb world habitability bonuses on the species. So, being the xenophobic wunder-men species that I was, I of course land armies and take over the worlds. Problem is that I haven't quite learned how to handle rebellion yet. I managed to get one planet happy but the other revolted and took over the planet... but it also somehow conquered the other planet too and just automatically flipped it to them.
I started the purge too late, but I thought that keeping them as slaves due to being the only species I had available for tomb worlds was the way to go.
I started the purge too late, but I thought that keeping them as slaves due to being the only species I had available for tomb worlds was the way to go.
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Yeah, I invaded because I'm doing the whole "dominion of man" sort of playthrough and suffering the Xeno can only be done as forcefully conquered slaves. Oh well, they're wiped out now and I have two empty tomb worlds sitting in my borders until something happens to make them habitable.
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Oh I'm actually playing for some of the achievements so only some cosmetic and music mods will keep the game valid. Achievements require Ironman+steam saves which can be seriously rustling, considering how RNG the crises can get.
Anyways second playthrough is going much better, specially after getting the hang of the new diplomacy system.
Anyways second playthrough is going much better, specially after getting the hang of the new diplomacy system.
Speaking of cosmetic mods, hit me up with some recommendations
I'm using the tiny outlier one and one to expand the empire colours. Any other must-haves that don't mess with the gameplay too much?
I'm using the tiny outlier one and one to expand the empire colours. Any other must-haves that don't mess with the gameplay too much?
I don't understand this:
I occupy half their space (no planet invasions) and haven't lost a single battle but I'm the one that has to tap out because of just passive war exhaustion?
I occupy half their space (no planet invasions) and haven't lost a single battle but I'm the one that has to tap out because of just passive war exhaustion?
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Ridas
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This way a losing war doesnt out right end your game. Yesterday I had piss poor starting conditions and had some back and forth wars with my giant neighbours. Without the war system my game would have ended. Now I destroyed them both in late game.
It just gets very annoying, if you want to clean up in endgame.
It just gets very annoying, if you want to clean up in endgame.
Got tired of the ugly-ass colour they use for the UI and I found a much better alternative on the workshop
steamcommunity.com
Steam Workshop::Dark UI - OrangeGold
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In the proposals tab you can see all the current options for each category. Look at it as a "Policy" tab but for the whole galaxy except everyone has to vote on the current option for each.
Thing is each faction can only propose one legislation at a time and they're voted on the order they're proposed. If you're on the council you can spend influence to push certain legislation to the floor and (later) delay or veto it.