Strengths and weaknesses of being a hostile/hatrid/killer empire

[Tabby3456]

examples like,
fanatic purifyer
hive mind seeker swarms and
hostile AI empires

what can i get from this? Does this mean i become everyone enemy? Can I still work with other empires that atleast match my ethics?

[NixBoxDone]

Positive:
- Most of those start out with massive bonus stats and advantages to make up for being enemy number one.
- If you can get it rolling, a race bent upon total extermination can become very strong very fast because all you need to get more planets is more ships, which you need in order to not be a victim anyways. You also get to ignore all traditions and technologies that deal with making nice.
- Sometimes having total war all time every time is fun.
-Militaristic races will have one huge eternal hate party on your planets and be super productive during war.
- Some of those hatey races get nice rewards for murdering all the alien meatbags.

Cons:
- Other races will hate you with the fiery passion of a thousand suns going nova.
- No defensive pact to keep a stronger enemy from plundering your butt booty in a moment of weakness.
- Enemies can and will ally up and attack you several vs 1 at once.
- Don't feel like having war? Too bad, here is more war!

Some of above examples don't completely mirror this - hive minds and AI empires can sometimes ally, but the fanatic purifiers hate all other intelligent life, so no diplomacy for u.

[sudokek]

Ty Nix, I liked your pro/con list. :)

[NixBoxDone]

No worries. Just pick those if you like the fightan and not the talkan or you're gonna be sad.

[Tabby3456]

Originally posted by NixBoxDone:

No worries. Just pick those if you like the fightan and not the talkan or you're gonna be sad.

If you're an Machine empire, how do you become more likeable by AI empire?

[Tabby3456]

Originally posted by Tabby 3456:

Originally posted by NixBoxDone:

No worries. Just pick those if you like the fightan and not the talkan or you're gonna be sad.

If you're an Machine empire, how do you become more likeable by AI empire?

not to confuse AI with machine empires, i'm talking about xeno empires like ogi nollox, or snail people.

[NixBoxDone]

There's a tradition that makes other machine empires like you - can't off-hand remember if there was a civic too, but if the machine empire is a similar type they also get a small bonus. Other than that you just ply them with milk and honey or bio trophies and duracell batteries. :D

As for AI empires: as you would others. Briiiibes. I found allying with meatbags pretty hard until the end game crisis when you suddenly get a "shared threat" modifier that makes people like you a lot more if you have big shiny robot fleets ready to fight their enemies.