Is getting boxed in by marauders secretly very good?

[Masoz]

Or am I just stupidly lucky?

In my latest game I got boxed in by AI very early, but one of my starbases bordered mauraders. Bad right?

Except I keep getting events where they kill each other at my border, and I can salvage their very powerful (for early game) ships for free. Seriously, 1.2k fleet power from out of nowhere at regular intervals. They also occasionally give me about 500 free minerals. I was easily able to annihilate my neighbors with so much free firepower.

I'm curious now, does anyone know if there are supposed to be bad events for bordering them?

 

[Mavkiel]

When they wake up your going to have to kiss the ring. Or be prepared to fight to the death. But yes, I love being right next to them.

 

[Badesumofu]

Being next to them is great. It's free defence on that border plus some nice events. You probably get raided slightly more often but that's not a huge deal. Pay them off until your fleets are strong enough to kill their raiding fleets, then make sure you wipe them out before 2350 which is easy to do.

 

[Chthon]

Yes being next to them is very good. Very very good. Especially when they wake up, and you just throw your hands up and say, "I surrender!"

 

[Longprao]

I never got anything good from them, in all of my games it was just either ransom money every decade, or someone hires to raid me, or the khan wakes up and attackes me, or the caravan keeps suicide to the marauders... I was really furious of all the bullshits and annoyance.

And now I permanently disable marauder all the time.

 

[Chthon]

I never got anything good from them, in all of my games it was just either ransom money every decade, or someone hires to raid me, or the khan wakes up and attackes me, or the caravan keeps suicide to the marauders... I was really furious of all the bullshits and annoyance.

And now I permanently disable marauder all the time.

You can find caches of level 1 resources, lost fleets of raider tech ships, and more from them. Just don't expect it to protect you from them if they decide to go to war.

 

[Talanic]

I never got anything good from them, in all of my games it was just either ransom money every decade, or someone hires to raid me, or the khan wakes up and attackes me, or the caravan keeps suicide to the marauders... I was really furious of all the bullshits and annoyance.

And now I permanently disable marauder all the time.

You have to control a system that has a hyperlane into one of theirs. Then you get free rewards. Otherwise, they can be kind of obnoxious, yes.