Previously I've never used xenophobia, slavery, or purges. But with Banks I decided to become an even bigger galactic menace than usual with my new xenophobic / authoritarian / militaristic empire.
At roughly 60 years into the game, I'd like to direct a few questions to more experienced despots, namely:
1) I've noticed that free pops adjacent to enslaved ones have the unfortunate tendency to become burdened with egalitarian feelings, rendering them unhappy. Naturally, I reward their concern by dropping them into the mines/farms for a stint of "re-education through hard labor" while the slaves they were worried about get a turn at research or energy production. Everybody wins!
But while this is fine with just over a dozen worlds, this will become less manageable as the Empire grows. Besides suppressing any treacherous egalitarian faction, is the only way to avoid this just keeping my colonies either all (xeno) slaves or all citizens?
2) I conquered a planet semi-populated with my neighbor's Proles. Wanting to use that world for research and being a kinder, gentler Dictator (for now...) I tried out Displacement to strongly encourage them to leave. The result was 5 pops marked as being displaced, and 1 who planned to migrate to a world in their original nation in twenty months.
Nearly two decades later, only 2 pops have actually left, and the supposedly migrating pop is still there despite plenty of room in the destination world. Is this typical? Was I foolish in not just purging the heck out of them regardless of ticking off various well-armed neighbors?
[In contrast, I also conquered a 3-world nation, and now every time I check on those dirty xenos it seems like another one of their pops has run off, the bastards.]
3) Exactly how cranky do other nations get if I did go the purging through Forced Labor or Neutering route? Not Processing of course, we *are* civilized after all. And any chance that this will please the collective black heart of one my factions for a little more influence?
At roughly 60 years into the game, I'd like to direct a few questions to more experienced despots, namely:
1) I've noticed that free pops adjacent to enslaved ones have the unfortunate tendency to become burdened with egalitarian feelings, rendering them unhappy. Naturally, I reward their concern by dropping them into the mines/farms for a stint of "re-education through hard labor" while the slaves they were worried about get a turn at research or energy production. Everybody wins!
But while this is fine with just over a dozen worlds, this will become less manageable as the Empire grows. Besides suppressing any treacherous egalitarian faction, is the only way to avoid this just keeping my colonies either all (xeno) slaves or all citizens?
2) I conquered a planet semi-populated with my neighbor's Proles. Wanting to use that world for research and being a kinder, gentler Dictator (for now...) I tried out Displacement to strongly encourage them to leave. The result was 5 pops marked as being displaced, and 1 who planned to migrate to a world in their original nation in twenty months.
Nearly two decades later, only 2 pops have actually left, and the supposedly migrating pop is still there despite plenty of room in the destination world. Is this typical? Was I foolish in not just purging the heck out of them regardless of ticking off various well-armed neighbors?
[In contrast, I also conquered a 3-world nation, and now every time I check on those dirty xenos it seems like another one of their pops has run off, the bastards.]
3) Exactly how cranky do other nations get if I did go the purging through Forced Labor or Neutering route? Not Processing of course, we *are* civilized after all. And any chance that this will please the collective black heart of one my factions for a little more influence?
