Empire Ally or enemy?

[Fralee]

what are the pros and cons of becoming an ally or enemy?

[JD]

You can trade with the Empire.
Permit choices.
Psionic abilities.
The Empire won't raid you. This alone makes you friends with it.
More quests.

[Fralee]

any reason to become an enemy?

[Lokki]

To gain Psycasters without needing pesky thronerooms and lavish meals. You can also loot their soldiers early game to get recon armor or better. Also the empire is an enemy to most factions so destroying their bases grants goodwill with most.

Originally posted by Fralee:

any reason to become an enemy?

[Huang George]

Originally posted by Fralee:

what are the pros and cons of becoming an ally or enemy?

Be Enemy you can get the psycast power without honor limit pawn doesn’t need noble rooms and apparel that’s about it…
Oh and you will get raid form them (to get psylink you have to kill their mage)
And you mostly not going to get the persona melee weapon in game which is the best melee weapons

[Kubis92]

If you wanna strong enemy faction than go with enemy Empire

if you wanna titles(permits,psycast) and having best traders (tech wise) than make empire ally

Also for Pycasters there is one more way then Empire(enemy/ally) to get them,any tribal colonist can meditate at Anima tree and make psylink.

[dot]

Just roleplaying, the empire is the pro techie faction, if you want their stuff by quests and trading go ally, if you want their stuff by raiding and looting go against them.

Everyone mentions the psycasts, but you can get them more issue free by meditating on the anima tree or quests of the industrial neutral faction.

[Astasia]

Going to war with the empire doesn't make it easier to get psycaster levels, outside of the deserter event or betraying them during a bestowal event granting you a few neuroformers.

Being allied with the empire doesn't allow you to trade with them, you need to engage with the title system and get a high enough ranked royal for that.

If you don't engage with the title system then being allied with them has the benefit of them not attacking you (their raids are much stronger than other factions), and you might get reinforcements from them (which are again much stronger than normal).

Going to war with them has the benefit of them attacking you, which while much harder to deal with means you can occasionally strip their downed units for decent gear and harvest bionics from them.

If you do engage with the title system, then staying friendly with them you have benefits like permits and trade, and the easiest source of psycaster levels, with the downside of having extra whiny colonists with specific needs.

[Helios]

Originally posted by Fralee:

what are the pros and cons of becoming an ally or enemy?

The empire towns and traders/ships have higher chance to get the rare nanite capsule and archite genes havent seen them on other traders exept exotic trade ships.

[ACS36]

War with the empire just makes the game harder, not easier. It's also boring because it doesn't really change much about the game other than having a different faction raid you.

The title system is the best feature of royality and it makes it feel like you have alternative goals in the game.

[The Seraph of Tomorrow]

Easy high-value loot is really the only reason to be their enemy.

[Malarky Enthusiast]

Originally posted by ACS36:

War with the empire just makes the game harder, not easier. It's also boring because it doesn't really change much about the game other than having a different faction raid you.

The title system is the best feature of royality and it makes it feel like you have alternative goals in the game.

Most fun faction to have raid you though. Tougher fights earlier.

[POWER WITHIN USER]

Originally posted by Fralee:

what are the pros and cons of becoming an ally or enemy?

Pros: They send pawns with great equipment and combat stats.
Cons: They send pawns with great equipment and combat stats.

[Chilli Dog Dave]

Originally posted by POWER WITHIN USER:

Originally posted by Fralee:

what are the pros and cons of becoming an ally or enemy?

Pros: They send pawns with great equipment and combat stats.
Cons: They send pawns with great equipment and combat stats.

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