So is it ever possible to trade planetary systems?

[Dragoon Fighter]

Just curious if there is a way for the computers to ever trade them when ever I give them an offer or ask for one no matter how high thier opinion they never trade.

[Veritas]

There used to be planet trading but it was abusable. Usually you had to swap planet for planet or buy them before major buildings were finished on it. Players, though, used the technique of "pop bombing" and "FE nuking" enough that the devs decided to take out system trading almost entirely rather than address the issue directly :>

Pop bombing involved taking the biological path and then creating a species that was as awful as you could make them. Unhappy, awful workers that spread quickly for example. You would fill up a planet with your garbage species and give that planet away for free, or sometimes even get some resources out of the deal. AI empires don't care to purge species that suck and so their population would start to explode with a terrible species that put their empire at a disadvantage as it spread. All the better if that empire has migration treaties, because then the garbage species would spread and infest other empires.. you get the idea.

As for FE nuking, all you had to do was cede a planet from an empire in the middle of their territory then give it away to a military isolationist FE; the FE would then demand that empire to abandon all colonies bordering the planet you just gave them, and if they refused, would send their giant fleet over in a war and probably decimate their forces.

[Brianwong the eggs benedict]

I mean, sounds realy fun to pop bombing.

[emperor_kk]

It was so much fun, i really think it was wrong they removed thebfeature altogether instead of fixong it...

[H11DN-D4NG3R]

Still. FE militant was fun. You just place a city in enemy/friendly space. And then gift it to the FE Militant and it will force them to abandon their citys.

[Caelus]

cant you still do pop bombing in other ways?
such as purposely lose a war and any planets they plan to take from that war engineer them to be the garbage before you purposely lose that war?

or still maybe use it through migration somehow?

anyways thats a perfectly good tactic, and its used in real life too, hence the "refugee" crisis lol

[Caelus]

ah i think i have idea.

refugee system, even slave system when slaves are unhappy they flee to other empires.

make you trash species, make it so they have no breeding or migrating rights in your empire, make them slaves and mistreat them, then hope they flee to another empire that way by a anti slavery, slave smuggling railroad underground thing.

[Lrfss]

LoL, sounds like fun!

[emperor_kk]

Originally posted by Caelus:

ah i think i have idea.

refugee system, even slave system when slaves are unhappy they flee to other empires.

make you trash species, make it so they have no breeding or migrating rights in your empire, make them slaves and mistreat them, then hope they flee to another empire that way by a anti slavery, slave smuggling railroad underground thing.

Too much hard work for something w a very slim chance of happening...