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I'll cut you some slack because you said "Not as I have seen".
I have ONLY seen the Namarians settle a world as an independent empire. I'm not sure if the settled planet becomes their homeworld, but it certainly becomes the capital of their independent empire.

I have never seen them settle a world that then becomes mine. Maybe they sometimes do that, dependent on your ethics or something, but them settling as independents certainly can happen.
I saw them do it to a xenophobic FE once, lol, they didn't last long.

Sounds cool. :)
 

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I have an outpost and a colony in a system that has a wormhole. The wormhole goes to Militant Isolationists. I can't make a vassal because I am FP. I can abandon the planet but I still don't know how to get ride of the system. Is there a way to remove my own outpost? If not then what should I do?
 

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I have an outpost and a colony in a system that has a wormhole. The wormhole goes to Militant Isolationists. I can't make a vassal because I am FP. I can abandon the planet but I still don't know how to get ride of the system. Is there a way to remove my own outpost? If not then what should I do?
You can dismantle your own outposts, should be in the near top left of the outpost screen. Not sure that Xenophobic FE's care about wormhole adjacency, but better safe than sorry...
 

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You can dismantle your own outposts, should be in the near top left of the outpost screen. Not sure that Xenophobic FE's care about wormhole adjacency, but better safe than sorry...
They do.
 

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Well, you can assimilate a species that already has brain slugs, but I think the event is locked out of machine empires.
 

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Hi everyone. I met some strange aliens in my recent game. As they were on my ally territory and I was pacifist I could not do a thing about them. Can you tell me what event spawn them (or they were there from the start?) and what are options about them? Can you somehow contact them or just conquer their planets? With traits like that I would like to get some of those as bio ascension empire!
photo_2018-09-16_15-54-28.jpg photo_2018-09-16_15-54-36.jpg
 

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Hi everyone. I met some strange aliens in my recent game. As they were on my ally territory and I was pacifist I could not do a thing about them. Can you tell me what event spawn them (or they were there from the start?) and what are options about them? Can you somehow contact them or just conquer their planets? With traits like that I would like to get some of those as bio ascension empire!
View attachment 404674 View attachment 404673
They were spawned by an event, dont remember which one. I believe they are treated as primitives or presapients, and all the mechanics that come with those.
 

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Can anyone tell why my Decadent main species get -5% happiness "From owned Pop"?
I just started the game with Syncretic Evolution and have 4 main pops and 4 enslaved syncretic pops, with each main pop "owning" one slave. :confused:
 

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Hello, I'm 5 hours into my first campaign. What is food used for other than pop growth? I'm at 200/200 with +1.
Is there something I can spend it on so it's not being wasted?
 

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Hello, I'm 5 hours into my first campaign. What is food used for other than pop growth? I'm at 200/200 with +1.
Is there something I can spend it on so it's not being wasted?

You can make trade deals with AI empires to make them happy or get paid. Selling food was usually my go-to there.
 

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Hello, I'm 5 hours into my first campaign. What is food used for other than pop growth? I'm at 200/200 with +1.
Is there something I can spend it on so it's not being wasted?

Mostly you increase it to bribe marauders, you can also trade food to AI empires as mentioned.

Quick question: in the dragon pups scenario of the L-Cluster, are there any bonuses in domesticating them all?

None, other than a bunch of great ships.
 

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Does the Machine World (ME terraform option) not have a sound when clicking it, or am I missing something? I swear I remember it sounding like the Contingency Hubs, but I haven't heard it in some time.
On that point, all soundtrack volume seems quite low ever since 2.0 came out, but it doesn't bother me that much (though I love the soundtrack).
 

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Okay, thanks all. Seems like my food is useless to me so far.

I'm now at 7 hours. Attached is a screenshot. I'm the humans of earth. What should I be doing here? I need some direction.

I have 2 more colonize-able planets that I have found. One 25% habitable, one 90% habitable. Should I continue to explore, colonize, and build systems for resources and research? I'm also building my planets up as the pops grow.
I dealt with a few pirates in a couple of my systems.

I have a rescue mission to do in the bottom right. I have no idea if I have a big enough fleet for it.
Is my fleet in general puny and weak? I'm researching destroyers right now.

Do I have typically a certain number of years of peace before an inevitable war with someone?

I also have the dudes in the top left, militaristic and demanding a tribute of 500 energy. When I originally went to survey the unknown system, it looked like their military capability was 50,000, mine is about 500. Do I keep giving in to their demands? They've only demanded once so far. The description of them was militaristic but fighting among themselves, if they united we would be in big trouble. That's the only contact I've had.
 

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