Xenophobe strategy?

[AzCrazyDiamond]

I am having some difficulty finding a winning strategy as a xenophobe. Everyone hates me (whine whine whine), constantly declare war, won't enter into any agreements. Nothing unusual, all expected for a xenophobe, but leaves me in a very precarious position. Ideas?

[Danny]

Publicado originalmente por Ese Kona:

if you want to purge any xeno use neutering as that will not get negative diplomatic relationships with other empires

It will also take excruciatingly long. and lots of them will just shuffle over to other empires where they can keep on breeding.

[Alfie Bernedircht]

Publicado originalmente por Danny:

Publicado originalmente por Ese Kona:

if you want to purge any xeno use neutering as that will not get negative diplomatic relationships with other empires

It will also take excruciatingly long. and lots of them will just shuffle over to other empires where they can keep on breeding.

doesnt matter what matters is that they get ouf of your empire

[Ertwin]

Publicado originalmente por AzCrazyDiamond:

Wow so much good advice, thanks to you all.
Re: fortify the borders. Standard tactic for me, build enough navy that no one is Superior to deter them from declaring war, find choke points and fortify them so that if they declare war they'll be deterred from invading. Last game I played as xenophobe, I just couldn't get enough alloy production to get all that done before two adjacent civs formed a federation and pounced on me.
Perhaps a separate topic, but one of them just snuck through a corner of the system and bypassed my fortified station altogether. Bug? Navy + station would have been enough to stop them, but I chased them with my navy and that alone wasn't enough. Wtf build a decked out station if their navy can just sneak past it?

Did you have FTL inhibitor tech at the time? Without it, ships don't hsve to engage the station.

[Danny]

Publicado originalmente por Ese Kona:

Publicado originalmente por Danny:

It will also take excruciatingly long. and lots of them will just shuffle over to other empires where they can keep on breeding.

doesnt matter what matters is that they get ouf of your empire

That does solve the problem in the long term.
Perhaps you need to watch the video (again)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1CQ7Vwz8Eo

[ScreamCon]

Publicado originalmente por Danny:

Publicado originalmente por Ese Kona:

if you want to purge any xeno use neutering as that will not get negative diplomatic relationships with other empires

It will also take excruciatingly long. and lots of them will just shuffle over to other empires where they can keep on breeding.

Neutering has 0% refugee generation, your just waiting on the pops to disappear... slowly but surely.

Its possible to have many planets neutering at once so the rate can be higher in parallel.

But why get rid of them when you could cold hard benefit from them being slaves with xenophobe? Slavery not much moral but beats genocide long shot. Social welfare allows you to have slaves closer to good upkeep of workers.

If you have enough economy and space you could even commit heresy by letting them be free.

The only real downside to xenophobe is that residence citizenship is the most free you can make aliens. Whats great is that residence pops can't join factions.

[Danny]

I once took over an entire empire in the early game because they got locked in a small section behind my capital.
Put their species to neutering and they somehow ended up in another empire, while I had no migration treaties or had any planets taken over by third parties.

Was super early game and they couldn't have met anyone either.

[AzCrazyDiamond]

I didn't have FTL inhibitors. That was the problem. Thx. Stefan Anon's video has been very informative. But long.