Starting next to Fanatical Purifiers

[McCore]

This keeps happening and every time it does I'm forced to restart. The damned AI gets 43% faster fire rate (33% from fanatical purifiers, 10% for militarist which they get 50% of the time as either that or spiritualist is required), 33% more naval capacity, and -25% ship cost right from the start. There is no freaking way I can keep up with that.

I keep starting next to them, it's frustrating to even have them in a galaxy with you. It's impossible if they spawn next door. What are the best tactics for dealing with a neighbor who gets all those bonuses? 40-50 years into the game they will outgun you easily. Even allies are useless. Just keep restarting every time your neighbor is a fanatical purifier? That seems dumb.

[Robert E.O. Speedwagon]

Git gut




More seriously, focus heavily on alloy production and try churning out as big a as you can fleet and entering an alliance with someone else who's threatened by the Purifiers. Also look for chokepoints you can fortify to stay alive.

[Lady Crimson (RIP)]

I started next to two as a fanatic xenophile megacorp lol.

It's actually kind of a good thing.. because the one thing they don't have is friends. Grab some friends, and team up against them, grabbing all of their systems for free.

Basically play defensive, hold a choke point, until you can grab some allies or over-power them. It's a lot harder on higher difficulties but on lower ones fanatic purifiers tend to die early.

[Meewec]

fortify a chokepoint between you and reinforce it with your fleet. should keep you safe for quite a while unless you slack on your fleet.

[McCore]

Okay, how do I PAY for alloy production to keep up with purifiers? Latest game (I quit again) I had about 8 worlds, 30 or so alloy production and -150 energy per turn. I was selling EVERYTHING to try and pay for my fleet/starbase cost. Also while I was sending my fleet down to defend my territory my ally sent his fleet up north to nowhere. So while I was getting killed by 7000 fleet power against my measly 3500, my ally's 4000 fleet power was moving back and forth doing nothing. Literally nothing. I lost 2 planets and about 6 starbases before I gave up and quit.

[Breakingzap]

just don't declare war on them if you can get strong enough they will not attack you eventully you can claim all their systems

[Bostonian]

Go to another one of their neighbors and do a Non-Agression pact. If you can, form a federation, so do diplomacy for your traditions.

Then, do a favorable trade with them.

The idea is to make you a lower priority on the to kill list while ramping up the consequences if they declare war on you.