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[EnigmaticHat]

Its been a while since I played this game.  Do you actually have the option of embracing democracy once the game has already started?

[Sirus]

Yeah, you can change government types. Costs 250 influence each time though, and you're limited by your ethos.

Just lost my new scientist. Was having him survey anomalies to try and gain experience (since I have no unexplored systems within range), and the anomaly spawned pirates that killed him almost instantly.

I don't want to be a quitter, but...maybe I oughta abandon this particular campaign. The game itself seems to want me defeated.

[EnigmaticHat]

e m b r a c e  d e m o c r a c y

[Sirus]

but but my parks and millennia-spanning kingdom :<

[EnigmaticHat]

You know, on a distant world bizarre aliens are watching newscasters use phrases like "welcomed as liberators".

[umiman]

Basically, what all of us are saying is:

The game is actually decent now that most of the disasterous game breaking bugs have been fixed.

There's still some idiocy here and there (precursor quests are impossible, sector AI is still stupid but not as bad as before, etc.) but at least now I can somewhat recommend the game.

[Sirus]

The precursor quests are the most annoying things, I think. You basically need to have the entire galaxy to yourself, because if any other empire surveys a single one, you can't complete it anymore. They should take a page from Distant Worlds and make the quests unique to each empire.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Or make the artifacts a unique and unexpendable resource, forcing you to obtain them by trade or war if another empire has any.

[Digital Hellhound]

I actually finished a Precursor Quest for the first time! It was a complete and utter letdown. I can't even recall what I got, because by that time I was big and powerful enough it barely made any difference.

The lore was nice, though - it was the one that died from an empire-wide plague or somesuch.

[umiman]

Yeah, I don't really give a crap about the precursor quests that much because only one of them has a tangible reward.

And it's not even THAT amazing.

The giant monsters of the DLC have huge rewards though.

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By the way, here's something amusing that happened.

So the enclaves are generally pretty great. They all give very important benefits and so on. I was trading as usual with the artist guys and doing my usual galactic festival thing because the happiness boost is so frigging massive. However, this year they just randomly shut down the event and left without saying a word. And now they won't answer my calls and they've been ignoring me for about 10 years now.

So if Paradox really wanted me to hate some frigging prissy alien artists, they gave me a damn good reason. Because as soon as I'm done with these other threats I'm going to send their bloody space station into a goddamn black hole.

[Sirus]

And so the Democratic Crusaders attacked my peaceful kingdom. My people are strong on the ground, but not even they can survive starvation. The youngest colony fended off two invasions (which really should contribute something to warscore) but the planet's people died anyway because blockades halt all production and apparently my dudes can't even do some simple gardening. The crusaders have a mighty fleet that, after losing (and replacing) 10 military ships and 2 science vessels to sheer bad luck, I cannot hope to match in an open battle.

Now it's a parry game as they attempt to blockade another, more established colony, while my fleet launches brief sorties into their systems in an attempt to draw the crusading fleet away. As this goes on, I slowly build up my mineral stocks and construct new ships. Unless I can match their numbers and/or trap them between a space station and my fleet, I don't know how else to fight them.

Huh. Immediately after I returned to the game, the crusaders went on a direct course for my homeworld's space station. My fleet was nearby, and together they smashed the crusaders. Not all of them died, but they lost far more than I did.

[Flying Dice]

I had one precursor line that led me to a system with a ruined ringworld that gave a total of fifteen engineering research points split between three nodes.

Thing was, it apparently glitched and spawned it before I got all the artifacts, 'cause I had it surveyed and slapped down stations years before that.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I had one precursor line that led me to a system with a ruined ringworld that gave a total of fifteen engineering research points split between three nodes.

Thing was, it apparently glitched and spawned it before I got all the artifacts, 'cause I had it surveyed and slapped down stations years before that.

I would have considered it weird for a broken ringworld to spontaneously spawn somewhere. Perhaps all the quest did was point you to it, and it was meant to be present as an object from the get-go.

[Sirus]

Offered a "white peace" to the Crusaders. They accepted, which was good news all around; they didn't have a fleet to attack me with, and my people were getting hit hard by war weariness and lacked the strength to punch through the enemy space stations.

The starved planet was re-colonized, and I plan to install a space station there. Maybe an FTL-snare station as well, since the Crusaders use hyperdrive and seem to need to pass through that system to hit the rest of my turf.

I encountered another empire on the opposite side of the Crusaders, which sucks. I only had the game generate one AI empire, but I guess these new mushroom dudes managed to achieve FTL on their own and are starting to expand. These guys are hyper-xenophobic Despots. Yay.

The new scientist somehow hasn't died yet, which is nice. She's 5-star now.

Other than that, life continues as usual in the Kingdom.

[Flying Dice]

I had one precursor line that led me to a system with a ruined ringworld that gave a total of fifteen engineering research points split between three nodes.

Thing was, it apparently glitched and spawned it before I got all the artifacts, 'cause I had it surveyed and slapped down stations years before that.

I would have considered it weird for a broken ringworld to spontaneously spawn somewhere. Perhaps all the quest did was point you to it, and it was meant to be present as an object from the get-go.

The Precursor event chains that lead to systems spawn them in (or possibly reveal them on the map). That's why you see reports of people suddenly "noticing" unsurveyed systems deep in their territory well after they've surveyed it all, an AI empire has done something that spawned a system. The Cybrex chain spawns the ringworld system and gives you Living Metal, the First League chain spawns their home/capital system.