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[EnigmaticHat]

That would explain why my free thinking Republic with a dozen different species ended up with so many neutral pops...

[jhxmt]

Can one change government btw?

Yes - in the main Empire/Government tab, you can click the government type symbol to change government (at least, the game tells me I can in my game...I haven't tried it yet).

I don't think you can change ethics in-game though, only in-builder.    Once you've started a game as peaceful xenophiles, you're playing the whole game as them.  I think.

[stabbymcstabstab]

Can one change government btw?

Yes - in the main Empire/Government tab, you can click the government type symbol to change government (at least, the game tells me I can in my game...I haven't tried it yet).

I don't think you can change ethics in-game though, only in-builder.    Once you've started a game as peaceful xenophiles, you're playing the whole game as them.  I think.

It works fine, it actually works pretty well with long species since you can use it be a little gamey at the cost of possible causing a civil war if you die heirless since it deletes your current heir.

[LoSboccacc]

war point system is a little silly, war points should be part of the post war negotiation, not arbitrary goals to set a priory, also points to get stuff should be dynamic from what happened, like you get a planet which has been verified with bombs it should cost next to nothing victory point, but another deep in enemy territory surrounded by the enemy fleet shouldn't

[Iituem]

Genemodded rapid breeding for unhappyness creating xenophobe avian pop from primitive planet, then filled some useless planet with them, arranged visa for those little asshole rapid breeding owls genetically modified to be even more assholes, and let them populate hostile empires, now they riot everywhere and create their own asshole little states.

Subtle, but nasty.  I like it.

[Loud Whispers]

Huh, so I encountered some space nomads - a large fleet traveling through my planets (well, large in relative terms, they posed zero military threat to me), and when they hailed me they revealed themselves to be a nomadic species. After giving a warning on how species like mine (who settled on worlds instead of traveling space) have not lasted as long as they, they disappeared - not before giving me the comlinks of nearly the entire galaxy. Nice space nomads :D

Now that's got me thinking though, space nomad DLC when? It'd pretty much just need CK2s nomad mechanics, but in space

[BFEL]

My newest game is first time I got into genetic stuffs. Pretty cool. Still fairly early game, but some of the pops on my super research world ( which has TWO separate -habitability but +research effects!) went trans-tentacleface to be more adaptive.
This is pretty cool, because despite the early conflicts, I now have a bunch of adaptive dudes I can switch the preference of to colonize errywhere. Already have four new planets lined up with slightly better then perfect habitability.
Only real downside is they lost the super research-y traits from my main species, but that's fine long as I can keep expanding.
Also modded my super scientistic main species to be extra long lived. Should keep my scientists from dropping like flies and save me some influence.

Also since my main species has the weak trait but the new one doesn't I'll eventually mod them to be my shock troops :3

[Cthulufaic]

Is having a few, big ships better than having lots of smaller ships?  Just wondering, cause I don't want to end up on my ass when I try a "purge the galaxy of xenos" game.

[dennislp3]

depends on what weapons you give them...you need at least a few small ships to absorb blows during the initial clash of combat.

That being said the current "min/max" strategy is just spamming ridiculous amounts of corvettes due to them having absurdly high evade at high technology levels which makes them a bit tough to kill.

I tend to do fine with a few ships of all classes in my fleet

[BFEL]

Some have claimed to have had success with swarms of corvettes. Personally I like the battleships because they get the special slot for stuff that effects entire fleets. Also the game seems to consider larger weapon slots to do more dps, though its hard to tell if its accurate or not. One thing I know is larger weapons are apparently easier to dodge, so apparently smaller ones are better against small ship swarms. Or at least that's what they said in the Blorg stream.

There's a lot of factors to combat, and its still early for people to have discovered the really OP builds and such.

Oh yeah, as mentioned by others small ships always enter combat first while bigger ones hang back, so if you mix and match you probably want the big ships to have good range.

[Orange Wizard]

I use large torpedoes because they're 100% accurate. If you have enough even dedicated PD can't keep up.

[etgfrog]

I use large torpedoes because they're 100% accurate. If you have enough even dedicated PD can't keep up.

Corvettes with 1 medium main gun and 1 point defense, tends to deal with most things pretty well. At least when the point defense doesn't bug out randomly after 2 hours of play.

[JimboM12]

I tend to split my ships between a good balance of slots, with the 'core' having the heaviest and the rear/front having a split between M/S. For example, a Cruiser's mid section will have the L slots, and the front will have a few M slots and a few S and the rear section will mirror that.

My favorite weapons so far are good old fashioned lasers with auto-cannons just cuz dakka. I find Torpedoes fire too slowly for me, I want all my ships opening up with a hail of gunfire.

[GentlemanRaptor]

Genemodded rapid breeding for unhappyness creating xenophobe avian pop from primitive planet, then filled some useless planet with them, arranged visa for those little asshole rapid breeding owls genetically modified to be even more assholes, and let them populate hostile empires, now they riot everywhere and create their own asshole little states.

I had thought about trying something like that, and it's good to see that the pop mechanics can be used to cause dissent like that. Gotta give this a go my next run-through.

[EuchreJack]

Huh, so I encountered some space nomads - a large fleet traveling through my planets (well, large in relative terms, they posed zero military threat to me), and when they hailed me they revealed themselves to be a nomadic species. After giving a warning on how species like mine (who settled on worlds instead of traveling space) have not lasted as long as they, they disappeared - not before giving me the comlinks of nearly the entire galaxy. Nice space nomads :D

Now that's got me thinking though, space nomad DLC when? It'd pretty much just need CK2s nomad mechanics, but in space

After speaking with the Space Nomads, I've been getting the comm signals of far-off space empires that "overheard me talking to someone else" or "received my comm signal from a mutual friend".  I suspect the Space Nomads have been spreading my good name.

...Which come to think of it, the Space Nomads would probably be the ideal Federation Builder, if they were a more formal empire.