Minor factions fleets become allies

Would love to see this ingame. It would definetly mean the loss of the amoeba and other es1 factions as main factions wouldnt be as bad a thing since they would still have a relativley decent presence in the game. 

Maybe make it harder to assimilate factions the more factions that u have assimilated? Or u only get the ship when they reach a certain pop. Otherwise ull just have a spam of ship designs from this (i rarely spend influence on es2 atm so buying out minors is easy. Especialy if im the UE) 

Adding an aggressive minor faction mode might be cool aswell :P make it harder to control them as they build their own empires.

I love this idea and would love to see it implemented into the game.

NinjaOfNerds wrote:

Would love to see this ingame. It would definetly mean the loss of the amoeba and other es1 factions as main factions wouldnt be as bad a thing since they would still have a relativley decent presence in the game. 

Maybe make it harder to assimilate factions the more factions that u have assimilated? Or u only get the ship when they reach a certain pop. Otherwise ull just have a spam of ship designs from this (i rarely spend influence on es2 atm so buying out minors is easy. Especialy if im the UE) 

Adding an aggressive minor faction mode might be cool aswell :P make it harder to control them as they build their own empires.

My idea would be to have it so there are Internal conflicts within your Empire which continue to grow if you assimilate more Minor Factions into your Empire. Similar to Quests choices, you can either choose to keep one Faction or the other. 

Resulting in the chosen Faction giving a unique bonus while you lose the other the other Faction and they become aggressive towards your Empire and prioritize you while giving additional bonuses to Rival Empires who pacify them/ are in their system.   

We decided to give ownership of any spawned fleet to a neutral empire called “The Pirate Empire.” Thus, there is no relationship between a Minor Faction and the fleets coming from their system. An assimilated Minor Faction will stop producing ships though; protecting you from Pirate Harassment.

On a connected topic, we’re going to look at how we can improve the Minor Factions game system, as there are interesting discussion on this topic in the game design forum. Moreover, we could think of ways to become friends with the Pirate Empire!

Cheers,