New player Looking for some suggestions on developing custom factions. I understand that they reflect your playing style, and I have yet to find mine. But my assumption is that there are probably a number of traits that have shown to be 'must have', or at least 'really great to have' as people have played.



Also curious if anyone has developed custom factions that expanded on the Valuters/WWalker or Drakken. Curious what was added/chnaged. If this has been discussed before, appreciate link to same.



Thanks in advance

Custom Factions, if you go for the super strong traits, make the game a little dull in my opinion. Anyway, some are really fun.



I consider High Seat of the Queen, from the Cult, to be the most versatile since it´s cheap (as in, negative) and useful.



>Here is the Capital of a custom Cult I started once and got too bored to finish. The traits are only Conversion (40), Cellulose Mutation (20) and Endless Excavation(10). I removed the techs so that leaves an empty room of 20 points. It could get even more OP with things like Well Connected and Advanced Diarchy or even Knack for Knowledge, or just start with a couple of techs. It´s standard speed, impossible difficulty.



Another OP simple thing is just to remove Make Trade, Not War from the Roving Clans. B) You can even remove some other things related to the Market in order to add Dust Efficiency.



Drakken can get OP in a number of ways, like simply adding Naive to their regular lineup of traits. The coolest I´ve done, though, was to beat impossible with a single city removing Well Connected and Advanced Diarchy and adding Food Efficiency.



Arcanas are always a very cool option too.



edit: my custom drakken also had Cull the Herd (awesome trait always) instead of Mint. I knew there was something missing.