How to make a federation build civ?

[Knight.R]

Not sure if i titled this right but what i am asking is how should i make a species that makes it "easier" to make a federation and invite civs into a federation?
I imagine just having a Xenophile trait is not enough.

[BoydofZINJ]

You now need to get enough unity points and unlock Federation.

Now, that does not guarentee that you will get allies. Allies are determined by a few things, similar traits, dislike the same rival, and not backstabbing/hurting your potential allies. Border fiction can also cause problems.

Since your allies are random - it is hard to say what will get them to like you more. Xenophile maybe? However, slavers tend to like other slavers and hate them at the same time too! :)

[HomoScorpio]

Choose charismatic as a species trait it will buid up opinion of your leader parallel to trust making them like you more

[Knight.R]

Originally posted by BoydofZINJ:

You now need to get enough unity points and unlock Federation.[/qoute]
I know pretty much the basics to run an empire and i have ran several games with federations when i played. However that was mainly with the UNE and not a one of my custom civs. And i was kind of wondering was the "perfect" civ build would be if i was leaning to make a federation.

[Azunai]

xenophile and charismatic help with getting already existing friendly people into a federation.

in my experience, being egalitarian is also useful - sometimes you won't find enough federation-compatible empires at the start. so you first have to fight and liberate them to make them viable federation partners. egalitarian xenophile will often get the "federation builder" personality.

also, egalitarian and xenophile factions go hand in hand, basically. egalitarians want you to have equal rights and all that jazz and xenophiles want the same, just for aliens. standard settings of a democracy will fulfill most of their faction issues by default and you can rake in lots of influence from factions without really doing anything special to please them.