Bad Luck

[Gummiballen]

After familiarizing myself with the new pop and planet system (love it, BTW), I decided to try out a megacorp.

I made myself an authoritarian, pacifist, materialist and otherwise standard corporation and started the game.
Good starting position, took the tip of a spiral all for myself and got The Flesh is Weak in short order.
And hey, my immediate neighbors are friendly and is all about the trade, good stuff.

Then galactic south of the friendlies, spiritualists... Hating my soulless guts of course.
Further south... More spiritualists.
New contact, Evangelist Zealots, great.
More contacts, Hive Mind... No shekels for me.
Rabid xenophobes. Nuff' said.
Another hive mind.
Aaand... more spiritualists...

Fuck my life, and my luck.

 

[VanguardKing]

Subsidiary wars are your friend.

 

[Dalwin]

I suffered a different kind of bad luck in my current play through. I knew the form of the precursor home varies with the quadrant in which you start but I id not realize that you can only find the artifacts within that quadrant. My home was barely across the line into the SW quad but all of my exploration was forced to go eastward. 50 years in I had still not discovered a single artifact. I have had the first two fed into my existing territory on year 60 and 70. At this rate it will be well past year 100 before I finish that quest chain.