#Endless space 2 wiki major factions mods

After elections, you get to pass laws, which give you various gameplay buffs.

There is a Government system in the game with several different government types and six major parties (Industrialists, Scientists, Pacifists, Ecologists, Religious, Militarists).(THAT could get anticlimactic, to be fair. And if someone else won the vote but you felt like you could still win, you always had the option of rejecting the council vote and going into a last-man standing permanent war with all the other factions combined. It usually made for a pretty satisfying conclusion, or at worst, put a reasonable limit on how long that foregone-conclusion stage could last. The top two factions population-wise are the candidates, everyone got votes proportional to their population, and the first one to get a two-thirds majority of the votes becomes emperor and wins the game.ДЇor factions that weren't candidates themselves, if they were allied with exactly one of the candidates, they'd always vote for that candidate (except the human-controlled faction, that one can do whatever the player wants), so alliances could be important. It keeps meeting periodically as long as there's at least three factions. (All numbers in what follows are off the top of my head from memory and might not be completely accurate, but they're definitely in the ballpark.) In those games, which are similar to ES1 in many respects, once two-thirds of the systems are colonized the Galactic Council gets together to vote on a new emperor. MOO1 and its immediate sequel, I thought, did this rather well.

#Endless space 2 wiki major factions mods

It also only applies to ES2, not ES1.)ДЄnyway, that's a lot of words to basically say 'does anyone else find that the end of the game often degenerates into a lot of pointless next-turning?' And more to the point, what can be done about it? Are there settings or mods I'm overlooking that would resolve this, for example? This is very situational, in most cases only being a workable option much later in the tech tree than I usually reach this point. (In ES2 you can also sometimes bring the official end of the game on sooner with creative use of alliances, jointly achieving say a wonder victory sooner than would have been possible solo. So, this would be a somewhat quicker way to get to the end, for the low low price of making me feel like filth, utterly destroying what little bit of enjoyment might have remained in that game. But as (say) the Vaulters I've got no real justification for a dick move like that except that the game mechanics demand it. I mean I'll do this if I'm playing the Cravers or something, who are supposed to be assholes. Someone I have less than zero in-character reason for going after and would feel like I was beating up a six-year-old girl for her Halloween candy if I did.

Here's why that option sucks, at least for the factions I usually play: Typically that faction is a longtime ally with neither the resources nor the inclination to pose any real threat to me. (One way to win a bit faster might be to just declare war on the next-biggest remaining faction out of the blue and conquer their homeworld for Supremacy and/or enough other worlds for Expansion.

But by the measures the game actually recognizes I'm still at least 30-50 boring, pointless turns from being able to make it official. By any sane measure I've won, the game's over. You can cycle through the other victory conditions and in each case it's much the same story. For example, at this point I'm typically a good hundred turns out from the time limit for a score victory, and at least a dozen or so turns from getting any of the science victory techs (though I'm nevertheless the only faction with any hope of reaching them in a semi-reasonable amount of time). The other 70% of the time, eventually I reach a point where I'm vastly ahead of every other faction in every possible measure, to the point where they have no hope of catching up, yet I'm still nowhere near achieving any of the victory conditions. Those are not the games I'm talking about here. Every time I play either Endless Space game, it goes one of two ways.ДЄbout 30% of the time (and dropping) I get curb-stomped early on.