Does anyone use aggressive observation?

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Its just 2 extra society research compared to passive observation but bad things can happen when you use it.
Is it worth it? Does anyone use it?
 

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I don't think I ever did. Unless I'm playing an empire with a strict non-interference policy (in which case I'm stuck with passive), I'm more likely to either invade or enlighten the primitives anyway.
 

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I use it under specific circumstances. If I'm xenophobic and pacifist, the primitives are going to get cowduction. I can't invade them, and I'm not going to enlighten them, so they become a source of society research.

The events are largely irrelevant to me. Implants went bad? The emperor doesn't care. Shuttle crash? Don't care. Rogue agent? This is my Don't Care face.
 

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I roleplay it usually. Use indoctrination for militarist and materialists (alternative is aggressive), aggressive for xenophobes and authoritarians, passive for pacifists (regardless of other ethics), egalitarians, xenophiles. Depends on the secondary ethics if I do spiritualist. If I have any of the ones I use passive on, I only do passive.
 

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Nope, the events after seeing them few times seems boring and not worth even the effort of redirection various ships to there, especially when ships seems to barely make equivalent of warp 3.
 

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I can't bear to play anything but xenophile (everyone's so cute, the portrait artists do a great job), so for roleplay purposes I don't do aggressive observation. I'll indoctrinate the hell out of everyone, though, grooming them to join my enlightened federation of alienhumpers.
 

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The events are cooler, I'll say that. I abducted a scientist from an early space age civ, and he was freaking amazing. I had him on engineering, and then a while later his species nuked itself and he was the last survivor.

There should be more primitive events where you can save several pops, so they don't completely die out. And in some cases, they could choose to make their own colony to rebuild their homeworld, as a vassal under you. And depending on their ethics, even decide to split off from you, so they can build their own independent empire.
 

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I see no reasons in using passive study. after all when they'll evolve i'll enslave them anyway. or purge
 

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The "bad" events are mostly just extra society research.

Whenever there's something happening, usually you're tasked with sending a science ship there to correct the mess. And at the end you are rewarded with society research.
So it's +2 society/month plus random society events.

But, sometimes I don't want to deal with it, so I use indoctrination instead.
Sure it's 3 energy upkeep, but let's be honest energy is not an issue at all in 2.2 and you still get 10 scoiety/month.