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Factional "late game" resource sinks...


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Once you reach, say, a billion credits... choosing what stations to build as you expand your faction becomes less fun and new and more like a chore.  The megawealth in the endgame has this unintended effect of money and resources becoming effectively meaningless.  Here are some thoughts to address both of these: 

1:  Factions with which you ally with cause you to go to war with any factions they are at war with.  Opinions of other factions are also based upon who your allies are - such that late game "everybody is my ally" is not the norm.  A cause for war between factions can be controlled sectors lost by factions founding stations (I think it is currently -10k points/lost sector). 

2:  Similar to negotiating a cease fire, improving relations with a faction or negotiating an alliance; having an option to fund the expansion (or upgrades) to your allies would be a place to spend late game money and resources.  In this case, resources given to that faction could be spent on giving that faction new capabilities (like Naonite to an Iron/Titanium faction may cause them to slowly start installing shields and hyperspace cores on their ships).  Money given to an allied faction could go towards founding new stations, ships and increasing their construction capacity.   As implied, only allies will accept these extra (and optional) contributions to their coffers.

3:  Having a manner in which new factions are created and grow will make the galaxy much more dynamic.  This would be as light weight a process so that the whole galaxy is living, but not having a million loaded sectors (so very minimal background generation and simple background calculations). 
- Pirate Shipyard:  if they amass enough resources/slaves/credits.  Once a second station below is built, they will seek ceasefires with local player and NPC factions.
- Smuggler's Hideout:  a way for pirate factions to facilitate trade and improve relations with other factions through un-branding stolen goods.
- Resource Depot: a way for local PC and NPC ships to refine raw ores & trade resources and improve relations.
- Repair Dock:  a sign that what was a pirate faction is now a fledgling faction - now that its ships can respawn in territory they themselves control.  At this point they are a proper faction even if they would still have tons of work to do for building a headquarters, habitats, military outposts, etc etc.  The rest of the ways that they progress can be even less linear; but they may wait until they have neutral to good relations with their neighbors before investing in something like a trading post, for instance. 

4:  Having some ways in which factions are destroyed:
- A new type of war; wars of extermination / genocide.  These show just how far galactic civilization has fallen in the years since the United Alliance existed.  Completing a genocide comes with major diplomatic ramifications for all factions committing the genocide.  The Xsostan could also "harvest" an entire faction on occasion (this would be very rare).
- Just destroying the last remnants of a faction in a normal war?
- A faction conquering another faction (capturing & aggressively building stations in hostile territory, until the offending faction no longer exists).  Hooray war of conquest! 

Conclusion:  having life cycles of factions adds a living dynamic to the galactic sandbox.  Funding allied factions' expansion or improving what resources they have access to can make places like the Rim an interesting place to settle, if your goal is to build up an Iron faction all the way up to Avorion, for instance.  Finally, sharing your wars with your allies will increase the difficulty of getting everyone allied with one another and add a layer of difficulty in maximizing "One Against All and All Against One."  Thoughts?

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#1 this is an issue i hope to see fixed with a future expansion of diplomacy in game. frankly militariastic factions should react to "border tension" as an ongoing issue, and should be building up to match player forces based on interaction with you.

 

#2 i honestly think all the minerals in the game should be trade-able commodities. and be processed through the economy into components. eg, teh difference between an avorion and naonite laser being, did you make its components from that material.

 

#3 would need to be careful or factions would be farmed more than they are now. newly generated factions should be more formidable than those they replace. honestly i think pirates that gain enough resources should expand as dedicated raider factions, fielding larger raids, and having border varients that also kidnap crew, not just kill them.

 

#4 xenocide is already part of the game. but there are no ramifications for it, and its utterly casual as npc factions dont yet have any facility to respond to even moderatly powerful players, and i agree that needs to be fixed when possible. i see no problem with the xsotan deciding to harvest a faction, or more cleanly an area centered of that factions territory. imo this should be part of what they do.

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