Stellaris Real-time strategy Strategy video game Gaming. Am I. Inwards perfectionist still has benefits. No more restrictions in wars or treaties. Done with Beta 3. IIRC inward perfection makes it where you can only fight defensive wars. Humankind is a love letter to the Sid Meier. r/Sims4. Aoi Arashi Feb 5, 2020 @ 6:30pm. As for civics, the strongest civics overall. Xenofobe is good for pop growth and early expand (if you close your borders and don't have migration you need the extra growth), pacifist is good (+admin cap for early expand) if you don't want to wage war anyway, you could go for fanatic with any of them or pick a 3rd. So how do you win a game stuck with inward perfection?R5: As the title described, my fanatically xenophobe, inward perfectionist society is perfectly fine with xeno scum taking over the government, it has 100% legitimacy. It's currently the year 2440 in my game, and nobody has attacked me yet. The best Civics in Stellaris include Citizen Service, Feudal Society, Distinguished Admiralty, Inward Perfection, Barbaric Despoilers, Death Cults, Reanimators, Fanatic Purifiers, Master Crafters. ? The problem is that you can't War. Add a Comment. Pops on a colony ship remain 'as-is'. Never underestimate a void dweller inward perfectionist. Modern Stellaris is going to feel more like a sequel than the same game with a few patches. The chosen one god emperor event overrides all civics no matter what. Edit: also I'm pretty sure Inward perfectionist can't have vassals. 76 Badges. Regardless, it's still a viable civic. I beseech you, take these 4th Dimensional acorns and find prosperity and fun in your own game. I like to play inward perfectionist. I’m unable to change my policies to the ones recommended on the situation tooltip, and changing my diplo stance from Isolationist to Expansionist (my only options. . Thing is that taking the Inward Perfection civic seems to change the Domination tree to Purity, meaning there's no way to ever get the CB in the first place. @OP: My thought is habitat spam. Used with the effect change_government = { civics = { civic = command combination to replace an empire's civics with the written list. Thanks for the help…Inward Perfection is very strong. 1442 Population. Yes, I'm a glutton for punishment. 3. The pop growth bonus in particular is also augmented by the bonuses of xenophobe, for a possible 30% base pop growth. 416K subscribers in the Stellaris community. Darvin3 • 1 yr. Inward Perfection bonuses are very strong but it attached to a most awfull ethic- PACIFISM . Standard "Inward Perfectionist" Start. /Sarcasm. . Stay away from inward perfectionist (if you dont want challenge ;). If you don’t want to go inward perfectionist masterful crafters, Reanimaters, and Police State are all good civics to look at. Past and Future of the More Events Mod. Inward Perfection I don't like the second as much, because it's a bit harder to keep your neighbours friendly, but inward perfection does make for a very powerful start. SilentReflection Second Lieutenant. TLDR: I've played wide builds for my entire Stellaris career, and want to try to see if I can make a tall build work. Hydrocentric specifically prevents removing the aquatic trait in gene modding. No, it isn't. 395 votes, 107 comments. That many pops and jobs is no joke, your production will be easily enough to protect your borders. 3 SP session. Since completing the Shrine of the Old Gods chain doesn't let you remove the civic, I doubt an ideology war would either. If you are still having IP as civic you should ditch that. Stellaris is a game where you create your own story while painting the map and micromanaging planet #162. So just spam some science ships early and expand as fast as you can. Declare war. Stellaris. After you pick up the influence bonuses influence from factions don't really matter. Things that boost trade value actively encourage interacting with other empires. Jump to latest Follow Reply. I sniped the unbidden and a Khan in the meantime. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy…Actually in Stellaris, you can read/write the file like a normal save (unless you specifically mean the in game save/load buttons). At least now I can play peacefully as an inward perfectionist. It doesn't mean "oh yeah, load up on tributaries with inward perfection man, that's what it's for!" It means, in the unlikely event that an inwards perfection empire ends up in the situation where it could get a vassal, it gets a tributary instead. I started my first Inward perfection run yesterday. You can try doing. And you don't need to build that many city districts. To win I usually employ one of two strategies: Become the biggest and strongest empire with lots of planets and systems. 25 Account of RCAF Bomber. That’s how I prefer my expansion planning to be. The Galactic Community is a governing body where each member empire can vote on laws that affect all other member empires. On a side note, vassalizing and integrating subjects should count as "conquering" for that jingoist-but-not-too-racist faction, because conquering. You can't join federations or start wars (except in a few occasions), but you get a lot of bonuses to building up your own empire. As I recall, the process took almost a century. Stellaris. Reply. Looking to play tall and possibly at some point go for god king psionics -> Imperium. Inward Perfection & Sanctuary I have a Sanctuary system near me but I'm inward perfection and can't conquer natives (pacifist). So to make it different I set the Galaxy settings like this. Go psionic ascension, and use the chosen one event to drop out of inward perfection (become an awakened empire), ideally before choosing the last tradition so you can have both politics and diplomacy. The Inward Perfectionist (civic) can neither do aggressive militarism, nor cover for pacifism through. Inward perfection is for isolationist per definition, so I think the ethos combo (xenofobe and pacifist) is okay for you too. 1A Game for Lisan: Belgium EU4 1. Leaders can have multiple veteran classes via traits but the UI will only display the first one. I was unsure how it would go since expansion is pretty limited. The machine fallen empire awakened as well because of the Contingency, but they got themselves destroyed because they were right next door to it :/ I'll just finish the war and see if I still. Then just periodically change them to a different species that will assimilate. And I'm glad that they're going about nerfing it in the right way - they're adding maluses, rather than just nerfing the beneficial effects and homogenizing it. Is this still possible? This means a permanent -10% to resource production (countered by high stability due to pacifism and inwards perfection), +20% amenities costs (though +10% happiness bonus due to inward perfectionist and toxic counters it) and - 10% growth speed (that one really sucks, because it's on top of being lithoid and relentless industrialist, netting -45%. Also bonus points for grabbing pacifist, so an inward perfectionist build with the intent of getting the divine sovereign to get rid of it works nice. Aoi Arashi Feb 5, 2020 @ 6:30pm. 3 Beta) Did a lot of searching but can't really find an updated consensus on how to build as an IP in the new Unity focused beta. Stellaris Dev Diary #312 - 3. Inward Perfection disables a lot of different mechanics, like being able to wage war to take more territories. Sh0at Synth • 4 yr. I really wish Stellaris was less dependent on warfare for challenge. I kept them happy by bribing them with resources and getting non-aggression pacts. The only problem is the stigma. 75% job boost. It is one of the hardest challenges for people who think that they are good in Stellaris (currently doing a run with them, already in 2600s I think, crisis beaten, but while I was dealing with the crisis, one of the AFEs reached the 100% war exhaustion and signed the peace treaty, and I. What he said. I'm a roleplayer so taking over the galaxy comes as a second goal. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy game Stellaris by Paradox Development Studio. Strange_Accident_109 • 1 yr. Daily Game deals - (Promoted/affiliate link!) - for new episod. I saw that Agrarian Idyll goes well with Inward Perfection, but was curious what third trait would? I'm leaning towards Aristocratic elite or Functional Architecture. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy game Stellaris by Paradox Development Studio. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews. Of those listed, only Shared Burdens and Inward Perfectionist pretends to be utopian and Inward Perfectionists doesn't depend on a specific authority, just Shared Burdens. Ladies and gentlemen Tall has returned! In this video I will be showing off my latest Stellaris Meta Build; Tall Agrarian Ocean Paradise. Maintain a large enough fleet so no one ever tries anything and build up your defenses. Never do diplomacy with anyone ever. Thread starter Xrybnix; Start date Nov 7, 2020; Jump to latest Follow Reply Menu We have. I don't really like playing democracies in Stellaris because of the annoyances associated with how it interacts with leaders. I like pairing it with spiritualist and inward perfection. I would say that Inwards Perfection benefits a ton from unity bonuses and pop growth so, rapid breeders and traditional are must-haves. So far the closest thing to it is inward perfection but even they can and most likely will be dragged into a lot of wars. Humankind. You can REPLACE all your civics with combination of desired one (without inward ofk). Really annoying oversight on Paradox' part. Sadly stellaris leans heavily on extermination part of the 4Xs. The best thing to do is draw on what play styles you like and roll with a default empire first. See, the switch turns on the machine but it turns the galaxy off. Stellaris: Suggestions. You have 2k CG, so it's "good" to run a deficit for a while because stockpiling unused resources carries an opportunity cost. . Then you embrace the materialist faction when ready but. Gone are different. This happend to me in a ironman game i was looking for friendly empires in order to get 10 migration treaties for the "Very open borders" and the "Tourist trap" achievements and then i came across this Fanatical Purifier Empire being "friendly" towards me. I'm pretty sure that "willing" means they have to ask for it. Kastor May 8, 2021 @ 9:49pm. 9. Related Topics Stellaris Real-time strategy Strategy video. And the only fallen empires are the robot caretakers that care for nothing. If you are just xenophobe without inward perfection and pacifist you can make a claim and exterminate. So I am inward perfectionist empire. Void Dwellers: A Basic Guide 3. So I still stand by what I said. If you don't enlighten them you lose the world. Totally forgot about swapping ethics mid-game! Reply . •. There is no way to tackle the game through economic or cultural means. Inward perfection is more about building a great nation. Thread starter devfrost44; Start date Mar 19, 2020; Jump to latest Follow Reply Menu We have updated our. Our little necrophage xenophiliac peaceful geckos (if that's even possible lol) will begin exploring the galaxy, per order of His Smelliness. Yes, its great! Good combo is to start as inward perfectionist, get that great early bonus that inward perfectionists get and than transition into god emperor with which you can. Zaranthan. The whole reason I chose inward perfection is so I would be left alone to just grow my civilization, and maybe overtime liberate the rest of the galaxy whence strong enough. Then proceed to bulk up on fleets for the end game crisis / war in heaven and play politics, with the goal of becoming the god emperor of the. I had decent success one game as an inward-perfectionist who got the chosen one event chain, ditching the pacifism trait around 2310 or so. I have tried a run as an Inward Perfectionist (which seemed to me like a good pick for Bio ascension) but I don't enjoy the limited diplomacy options or the factions. HFY Field Marshal. Really wish Stellaris had. Best. Inward Perfection and Agrarian Idyll civics (later add Masterful Crafters) This build would give you nice head start by allowing huge growth in terms of robots and bio pops. 4. Never declare war on anyone ever. This gives you 20% monthly unity, 10% pop growth (important), +5% happiness, +1 edict capacity (important) and +1 encryption. Attraction to those ethics is just so strong when you have only your primary species. Larger sacrifices should be coming from your subjects via the overlord building. r/Stellaris. Fun facts: Before becoming a Crisis I managed to get the strongest empire to be blamed for being a "Crisis"; Got a lot of Crisis points purging fake "Crisis" worlds :P. Inward Perfectionist Build Help (3. 4. I believe it will not transfer over, Valve likes their cut on Steam sales after all. War's are purly defendsive in nature and vassals arent really that good of a minnon. " and the off-worlders as nothing more than "fearmongers" in the Origin. I became quite the warmonger, for a pacifist. The machine still has an ON function only. Homogenization as a tool of game balance is awful. Description Inward perfectionist cannot advance shroud enclave situation since they can't set their diplomatic stance to cooperative. hmm, maybe, I just think I remember playing a game a couple weeks ago where I made an inward perfectionist a tributary and then out-teched them until they became a protectorate ReplyWell yes, but actually no. How to make Inwards Perfection fun. I was thinking of something like this: -Life seeded. Or rather, a run is never fun "because" it is an IP run. If you were going with this combo, and trying to play on Commodore+ Difficulty, what would you use for traits, initial civics (or whatever they're called), strategery, etc. It’s 2250, yet you have a bunch of red planets that aren’t colonized. /Sarcasm. It is not supposed to be possible to vassalize Inward Perfection empires, but the option is still there for war declarations. 2. I view it as a challenge. When everyone realizes they were fooled -- the nominated Empire become neutral to me. Stellaris is a war game. Compare Stellaris to a game where you can play tall, and playing tall is strong: Civ 5. You can have expansionist too. ago. Inward perfection prevents forced tributary's, but not vassals themselves. Just declare a liberation war, abduct all pops in the systems you conquered and voila. OP is just joining the band wagon of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about changes. Seal off the borders and take the defensive and espionage traditions while building a sentry array. Pacifists can also get a +10 happiness edict. You’ll also lose an envoy and gain a disadvantage to codebreaking. Council. The Dommonan's realized that while looking inwards was the purpose of their existence they should keep an eye outward for threats that may seek to disturb their inward perfection. Why not perhaps give inward perfection a base of 0. . Explorer (Subclass) subclass_scientist_explorer. Inward perfection and don't join the galactic community. Inward Perfection also got some major buffs insofar as growth rate, influence gain (though somewhat mitigated by being unable to have Rivals), citizen happiness, and most importantly, changes to the Domination tree (into Purity, granting tile blocker cost removal cost reduction, resettlement cost reduction, Symbol of Purity, happiness, Warscore cost. The problem is that I am now fanatic xenophobe and materialist. Mine has been the "Alari", the humanoid portrait that looks somewhat aquatic near the beginning of the top row. Finally finished my first game after like 4 attempts on cadet diff haha. Current AAR: The Thorn of the Rose HoI4 The Future of the Red Lion Stellaris (on hold) Journal of the Silver Daggers Battletech Completed AAR: In Memory of France EU2 Pax Humanitas Stellaris 1. What he said. Of note, that event with the shrines isn't tied to Inward Perfection in any way, it's appeared a lot. r/Stellaris. I am the kind of player that usually plays an aggressive slaver empire that vassalizes everything in sight. You need spiritualist, pacifist and xenophobe and choose a monarchy with inward perfection. Choose civics that dont give a benefit at all. Inward Perfection is rather limiting, requiring you to both Pacifist and Xenophobe so you don't exactly have much option for ethics. However I wanted it to be a little bit different than a "standard" game of Stellaris. or just do intend to wage war then. Never fight anything other than space fauna not including leviathans. ferretleader • 5 yr. I am the kind of player that usually plays an aggressive slaver empire that vassalizes everything in sight. Swole-fin is best portrait. Filling up research planets/habitats one at a time, everything else simply exists to support this. This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. The problem is exacerbated by taking inward perfection, which causes the primitives you enlighten to become tributaries - effectively extending the time before you can use these planets by two decades cpmared to regular pacifist (by forcing you to release them, wait 10 years, then liberate them) - assuming you aren't fanatic pacifist. I'm not running any mods. They'll be my vassal soon enough, though. This is one of the Mammalian portraits from the Anniversery pack. Inward Perfection is an incredibly fun playstyle to me, who is always on the isolationist side anyway, and I wanted to try and apply it to a race of space vampires, why would they. It was last verified for version 3. Stellaris > General Discussions > Topic Details. You use it to get an early lead by progressing quickly using the bonuses, then, when you're comfortable, remove it for something else and assert your dominance. I tried Inward Perfection for the first time when I came back from a long break from Stellaris, so I thought maybe a game update changed that tradition branch for everyone. Inclusive Civics is a mod that relaxes the restrictions for most civics, allowing for more diverse combinations in the empire creator. what? i always play inward perfectionists wide, with a rapid expansion early and grabbing up what pieces of the galaxy others leave be, then i go into psionics and go fanatic spiritualist rather than pacifist. All tou need is just rid off Inward Perfection. This will also work if you have Imperial but switch it to a more. I'd also like Inward Perfectionist to prevent access to the GC, but hey. I'd rather have a weak Council bonus that fits the theme of Inward Perfection, rather than a stronger Council bonus that is orthogonal to the theme, or is in a completely different forest from the one IP is in. Inward perfection is more about building a great nation. That said, choosing this path means your locked into the Psionic Path. New Playthrough. Pacifists can also get a +10 happiness edict. Even if you did spend a lot of pops making alloys, you should still have been able to get at least terraforming tech, or robots, or even habitats, to help you expand to more than just 5 planets. On a side note, vassalizing and integrating subjects should count as "conquering" for that jingoist-but-not-too-racist faction, because conquering. Yah. Spiritualist or egalitarian are also great as a. I can only guess it was some combination of an advanced start and Inward Perfection, because they're otherwise unremarkable in size or number of planets. By: Kastor. It completely goes against things like Inward Perfectionist, which is perfect for doing that very thing. Xenofobe is good for pop growth and early expand (if you close your borders and don't have migration you need the extra growth), pacifist is good (+admin cap for early expand) if you don't want to wage war anyway, you. You can go inward perfection if you want to simply outbuild the enemy, but if yu want to play a bit more active game, then take mining guilds. And you can release a sector as a vassal, but I think there are some requirements that I can’t remember. Yes. You see, one of the things I really like about Stellaris is the room for personal interpretation, that it leaves some things vague enough for a wide range of narratives. Stellaris. Are you playing an Inward Perfectionist empire? They are locked to only having tributary subjects (as they were in 3. By mid game, every single AI was either my subsidiary (around 70% of all galactic population, in all but one case voluntary) or a member of my Trade Federation. Rule 5 - I’m playing an spiritualist inward perfection empire with the Teachers of the Shroud origin and can’t progress the situation triggered by their divination mechanic. Inward perfection isn't a permanent civic. It could work but i woudnt rely on your vassals for anything. I was weakened by constant war against the democratic crusaders, and then we all died to the fanatic purifier. Including Inward Perfection. You can REPLACE all your civics with combination of desired one (without inward ofk). Mandasura • 6 yr. Subscribe. It really feels disappointing to have to. For additional information: my governing ethics are xenophobic, pacifist, and. Groups with limited/removed diplomacy typically have adjusted trees. 339K views 4 years ago. I'd also like Inward Perfectionist to prevent access to the GC, but hey. I'm looking for a strong build to go with Inward Perfection. And since you're producing tons of unity (especially with. Non fanatical pacifism only allows ideological wars- which do absolutly nothing for Inward Perfection empire. Usually one or the other is used for a gaia. Posted by u/Adventurer32 - 5 votes and 2 commentsStrange thing about Inward perfectionist is that you would normally have an isolationist diplomatic stance which gives high border friction so all your neighbours want to declare war on you. Go to Stellaris r/Stellaris. Inward Perfection. All three to get INWARD PERFECTION which in empire creation screen seemed like a good choice to further cut my empire off the danger. I’m planning on roleplaying as my Nation but it involves a change in Ethics over the course of the Game. So, you can go Inward Perfection with Teachers of the Shroud. The former prevent any form of cooperation. You can get colossus for the total war cb, works even if you are. Negative trait is usually decadent. So as soon as he came to power (admittedly a pretty long time what with all the leader lifespan bonus I stacked), I reformed the government, removed Inward Perfection and began my conquest of the galaxy. Wage a independence war to get free of your patron/get dark matter tech in the meantime, then use all of your diplomatic power to force your way to proclaiming a Galactic Imperium. TL;DR: You should be able to remove Inwards Perfection. Take the syncretic evolution origine and enslave the secondary species. Stellaris Overlord has been released and I have a new meta build for your viewing pleasure. Stellaris Dev Diary #312 - 3. 3. pretty sure inward perfection is forced into using the isolationist diplomatic policy, so always will have -50% diplomatic weight, which is pretty substantial. determined exterminators? inward perfection? your people are the daleks im sorry Reply HighOverlordXenu. Under Inward Perfection, all situations that would usually result in a protectorate or vassal, are supposed to make a tributary instead (unless there's a bug); tributaries can't be annexed. I discovered a posibility to bypass a part of the diplomacy restrictions of the Inward Perfection civic. Stellaris. Inward Perfection is rather limiting, requiring you to both Pacifist and Xenophobe so you don't exactly have much option for ethics. But yeah, it doesn't really give enough benefit since your options to even do liberation wars are slim. Adventurers are weird and wizards disrupt the peace and order. . 4. Conflicts with Inward Perfection. Last time I created a pacifist empire I got surrounded by militarists and purger, and the only empire I could possibly befriend was in the opposite side of the galaxy. You played a totally different game. R5: Each empire represents one of the three types of Stellaris players. Xenophobe and go inward perfection, spiritualist and lean into RP and unity generation. Patreon: used in this tutorial series: UtopiaApocalypseMegacorpFederationsLeviathansSynthetic DawnDistant StarsAncient. Now you can't get rid of Inward Perfection via the Shroud. If the Propose subjugation option is there then you should be able to. Doing Inward Perfection + Life Seeded is just super-hard mode. Passive eco-booming just falls off a cliff after 100 years, and you need some other means of population growth to keep up. R5 : I've tried an Inward Perfection game, and took the Nihilistic Acquisition perk. Hovering over the leader will reveal the other veteran class traits. Being pacifist and xenophobic, your options are limited. With xenophobe and perfection pop growth is above hive mind levels. Eventually, they had higher negative opinion of everyone else but me. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. I role play them as like an empire of watchers. (Which they did in the movies and got "invaded" in the books). Stellaris. Darvin3 • 1 yr. All of which have a huge impact on how you play the game from the very beginning. Stellaris can create some fantastic stories if you add a little imagination. The only problem with it is the expansion problem. It's currently the year 2440 in my game, and nobody has attacked me yet. . That means 70 edict funds at the start of the game. Stellaris is not a "war game" it is a "sandbox rpg in space" that has war game components. They're light xenophobe as in leave us alone, we will leave you alone who prefer to live life in small simple communities (agrarian idyll, inward perfection) and generally they have no interest in government, so they created a caste of civil. :c Unless I'm dumb and I misunderstand this. 2 The Great Trial Stellaris 1. Come back to check on the planet awhile. To win I usually employ one of two strategies: Become the biggest and strongest empire with lots of planets and systems. . Reclaim territory with inward perfection / pacifist. I'm a bit iffy with Teacher of the Shroud and Psionics on Inward Perfection, as I think Inward Perfection really appreciates Synthetics or Genetics ascension path to give it better pop growth. I play as Mammalian Machine more than anything else, simply because I love how it looks, and its how I imagine our Machines will look one day. As a general rule of thumb, Egalitarian and Authoritarian are the best overall ethics for their economic bonuses, so one of them would make sense. I'd started out with Inward Perfection, so for the most part, I was happy just hanging out in my end of one of the galaxy spokes which meant that I only needed a single governor, a couple scientists, and an admiral to fill stuff up and just kept. 1. 384K subscribers. -Militarist (gotta be careful with those xenos) -Xenophobic. Inward perfection is more about building a great nation. Like playing a fanatic pacifist that's inward perfectionist on a Gaia world start. It could work but i woudnt rely on your vassals for anything. I'd rather have a weak Council bonus that fits the theme of Inward Perfection, rather than a stronger Council bonus that is orthogonal to the theme, or is in a completely different forest from the one IP is in. 1442 Population. Lots of people ignore those though. P. Origin: probably Shattered Ring because it's just so overpowered. You can put this on pretty much any origin that will allow it. Fortunately, as I was surrounded by warmongers, they found it easy to declare war on each other. There is no way to tackle the game through economic or cultural means. I’ve since lowered the difficulty slider & have found a new invigoration for playing Stellaris as the AI seem far superior than before. Add in traditional and you're producing 30% extra unity. Elsewise you can't engage in a war as far as I know. With the void dwellers origin since space is limited as an inward perfectionist. ago. Mine has been the "Alari", the humanoid portrait that looks somewhat aquatic near the beginning of the top row. As the awakening should convert all the pops instantly (thus, what is being grown). But if you have a few genocidals in your vacinity to spare then ooh boy can they be OP. Last time I. Started the game a inward perfectionist and used the Psionic chosen one event to be able to accept a federation invite. The adaptability traditions change to diplomacy traditions (the icons stay the same). If you want to use my mods as the basis for your own, you are very welcome to do so. On the other side, i always was able to overrun my opponents on the degault difficulty, it could be better when you camnot fully overrun an opponent. War's are purly defendsive in nature and vassals arent really that good of a minnon. A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the 4X grand strategy game Stellaris by Paradox. 2. I just had my fanatic materialist, xenophobic, inward perfectionist, imperial technocracy discover the Zroni and turn into a fanatic xenophobic, spritualist, inward perfectionist, imperial technocracy of awakened psions over the course of a. And on both games it went kind of the same. then go full deus vult on the galaxy. I've played devouring swarm, void dwellers, rogue servitor, tree of life, megacorp, inward perfection, a slaver technocracy, and a generic xenophile/tech organic empire. I won as galactic emperor already so I dont really mind staying the custodian. Actually I'd recommend: ethics: Xenophobe, Pacifist, Materialist civics: Inward Perfection, Mechanist government: whatever floats your boat, personally I think Democratic is slightly better than the other ones traits: something something +habitability or whatever floats your boat And colonize every planet with the help of your adaptable species + robots that you. Thought just occurred to me as well, your original plan to embrace militaristic would have been next to impossible since inward perfection gives the pacifist faction a 1. Inactive Civics - Lost Inward Perfection. It also presents this as the most doubtful scenario because it suggests that AI would achieve transcension long before any human. The divine empire event triggered and I shed the inward perfection civic completely, finally being able to be more diplomatic. ago. Any of these strategies can be combined, except for opposing ethics. The pop growth is just downright insaneThere's any way to deal with criminal branches as a pacifist (inward perfection) 100. They're usually intelligent with an additional trait in the biology/sociology science. That's why it's locked, because it would be OP to reap the benefits. If you're keen to stay isolationist try something like: Void Dweller, Pacifist, Fanatic Xenophobe, Inward Perfection, Merchant Guilds. It is. It's funny trying to entice your neighbors to go to war with you, just as an. You also need to get lucky with Shroud events. Your goal is to spam merchants with consumer benefits trade policy and militarised economy. Authoritarians give +5% worker bonuses and a edict that give +5 stability, which translate to about 3% job boost. I'm playing a Multiplayer game as an Inward perfection Empire and another Megacorp empire with a "Criminal Heritage" civic/background built a branch office on my planet. With Teacher of the Shroud, Psionics is a no-brainer second tradition. It was a rather interesting game from an RP point of view. To take the "inward perfection" civic, you have to take Xenophobe and Pacifist. I'm playing on Grand Admiral with maximum number of AI; so early-mid game is pretty challenging. I made an Inward Perfection empire and am now at the point where I need to re-organize my government.