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Cawtacles

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On my first Le Guin playthrough, I didn't find out how to build districts until 40 years in.
At least I was playing a Rogue Servitor, so it could be explained as an in-universe bug.

Fortunately I managed to build a strong Federation early on, so the only defensive war I had to fight was when the Xenophobic FE awakened...
 

Volapyk

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First 2.2 game went psionic ascendancy and thought 'Hmm i should awaken all the races in my empire' went into species tab and set everything to assimilation, suddenly my economic crashed and it took way too long before i noticed, and of course the why… I had just told 2/3 of my workforce to stop working and spent their time training their minds instead
 

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>set endgame crisis strenght to x2 because yes
>think my AI allies and other empires will help fight them
>fast forward in time
>the unbidden pop up right on my ally's territory
>they are a bit far from me and the dumb idiots between us have their borders closed to me
>80-120K fleets coming out of the portal and begin destroying my ally
>AI empires ignore whats happening because doing nothing is the best way to fix a growing threat just like they did with the great khan
>the unbidden expand in every direction and consumed everything in their path
>the idiots finally open their borders after the unbidden eats a big chunk of their land
>send fleets in
>only empire in 15 fighting them
>dear god theres unbidden fleets everywhere
>get tremendous losses and pull back to my citadel
>fortify the living hell out of it
>defend defend defend while the AI relaxes and dies
>they soon became way too big for me and reached other lanes that i couldnt defend
>quit

:confused:
 

Wildshibe

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can we give it up for the man the legend right here Wildshibe for manually checking colonies via galaxy map for 60~ hours