What are the various Victory Conditions?

[MeniliteZ]

I've never seen a list.
Even on the wiki, searching for Victory Conditions just leads to Victory Score.

So what are the victory types?

[Forblaze]

1) With Cosmogenesis, fly the Horizon Needle into a black hole
2) With the Become the Crisis perk, activate the Aetherophasic Engine
3) Have the most Victory Score at the end game year

I'm not sure if domination victory is still a thing. The game may just end if you kill every other empire as well.

[HappySack]

Reaching the victory year with the highest score and no ongoing crisis or wars, or destroy every other empire in the galaxy.

It should not be surprising that Becoming the Crisis or Cosmogensis is the fastest way to achieve the latter.

[MeniliteZ]

Hm. I was hoping for a cultural or diplomatic victory of some sort. Ah, well.

Thanks.

[MeniliteZ]

Wait, if the Victory year is reached and a crisis and/or wars are going, victory doesn't happen?

Does it need to be war your own empire is in, or wars anywhere in the galaxy?

This sounds strange.

[HappySack]

This isn't Civilization so it's disappointing that there aren't alternative ways to win and only war.

Absolutely no wars or crisis can be ongoing at the victory year for the game to "officially" end and you don't need to be involved at all which can be a problem when you're unfortunate enough to get an endless war to happen because of how broken the war system can get in this game.

[MeniliteZ]

Dang.
So if a time comes after the victory year when peace is galaxy-wide, does victory then happen?

[HappySack]

Yes.

[Kufesska]

Originally posted by HappySack:

This isn't Civilization so it's disappointing that there aren't alternative ways to win and only war.

why? you gain a lot of victory score from different stuff, like federation, vassals, economy, relics...

you still have to defeat crisis, but it is possible to peacfully unite AI to beat it

[Xaphnir]

Kill everyone else, have the highest score at victory date with no active crisis or War in Heaven, or win with one of the two crisis perks.

[MeniliteZ]

Originally posted by Kufesska:

you still have to defeat crisis, but it is possible to peacfully unite AI to beat it

how do you do that?

Originally posted by Xaphnir:

Kill everyone else, have the highest score at victory date with no active crisis or War in Heaven, or win with one of the two crisis perks.

wait, is War in Heaven the only war type that matters for this?

I'm getting conflicting answers here.

[Xaphnir]

Originally posted by MeniliteZ:

Originally posted by Kufesska:

you still have to defeat crisis, but it is possible to peacfully unite AI to beat it

how do you do that?

Originally posted by Xaphnir:

Kill everyone else, have the highest score at victory date with no active crisis or War in Heaven, or win with one of the two crisis perks.

wait, is War in Heaven the only war type that matters for this?

I'm getting conflicting answers here.

I'm pretty sure it's only crisis or War in Heaven, but I don't remember specifically because I'm usually just not concerned with victory. I rarely play to the victory year, and don't concern myself much with it even when I do.

[Kufesska]

Originally posted by MeniliteZ:

Originally posted by Kufesska:

you still have to defeat crisis, but it is possible to peacfully unite AI to beat it

how do you do that?

xenophile, diplomacy, federation...
and make sure that you don't set crisis difficulty stronger than AI

[MeniliteZ]

Ah, I've never tried a Federation. Good point. Thanks.

And yeah, I rarely play to the victory year either... I think I'm setting my games to be too long. I do want to see the victory screen.

[Bloodartist]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

I'm not sure if domination victory is still a thing. The game may just end if you kill every other empire as well.

Has it ever been? I've killed every other empire in the galaxy once as determined exterminator, and it didn't end the game. No victory screen either. Admittedly that was long ago.

Im pretty sure its just the score at end date, and the couple special conditions (Cosmogenesis and Nemesis)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1958988649

[IPWIW]

Originally posted by Bloodartist:

I've

there's a war icon in that pic