Influence Points are a very rare and slowly growing resource.
Here's how to get a large amount relatively early:
Traits: Intelligent & Natural Sociologists
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Government: Some degree of Materialist
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Authority: Oligarchic, Dictatorial or Imperial
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Civics: Technocracy
Play like this:
With research stacked that high, you will have an excellent chance to to decipher their language before they do. And each language you decipher before they do will earn you between 40-80 influence points if you succeed. That is a lot!
You can use that influence to expand like crazy or finally put those expensive edicts to use that you could never seem to afford before.
You don't need to pump research THAT high to get a decent harvest of influence points, though. Intelligent and Natural Sociologists plus an early Research Lab or two should suffice, so you got a lot of wiggle room to tweak this to your personal liking, but the more research you have, the better your chances of first first contact.
Warning: This doesn't guarantee that you get the research done first. But it vastly increases the probability. Because the AI cheats.
Here's how to get a large amount relatively early:
Traits: Intelligent & Natural Sociologists
Government: Some degree of Materialist
Authority: Oligarchic, Dictatorial or Imperial
Civics: Technocracy
Play like this:
- first building: Research Lab
- build lots of science vessels: one or two for surveying your neighbourhood, 3 or more to explore
- start exploring around the time your research lab finishes.
- whenever you find another empire (and only empires), stop exploring and let those science vessels survey whatever system they are in.
- immediately start special project to decipher their language
- continue exploring when project is close to finish
- repeat from step 4
With research stacked that high, you will have an excellent chance to to decipher their language before they do. And each language you decipher before they do will earn you between 40-80 influence points if you succeed. That is a lot!
You can use that influence to expand like crazy or finally put those expensive edicts to use that you could never seem to afford before.
You don't need to pump research THAT high to get a decent harvest of influence points, though. Intelligent and Natural Sociologists plus an early Research Lab or two should suffice, so you got a lot of wiggle room to tweak this to your personal liking, but the more research you have, the better your chances of first first contact.
Warning: This doesn't guarantee that you get the research done first. But it vastly increases the probability. Because the AI cheats.
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