Interesting setup. As you mentioned, you are a bit spread out, as almost all your traits are just one levels, as opposed to a few. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I prefer specializing my faction to certain traits. It would be helpful if you could tell us what your play style is like. Are you big into research? Expansion? War? Diplomacy? etc.



Furthermore, I suggest you take off xenobotony. While it is nice to have some research right off the start, it honestly is not worth the points. Not only is it pretty easy to research yourself, it doesn't help in the long game. Once you get it, that's it. For example, for those 10 points you could get another level of optimism, which doesn't help just at the start of the game but helps to the very end of the game. The only one that is possibly worth it is N-way fusion reactors, as titanium 70 is fairly useful. Even then, I personally don't take it.

I do so enjoy being able to try and plan out and think up methods and things to try out, and games like this cater to that so well ^_^

I have a broad concept of the style I'd likely utilize, just a matter of incorporating it into this game.

Are Kinetic and missile type weapons still feasible later on? I can see myself not wanting to rely purely on beam/laser weaponry just as a personal flavor sort of thing. May even try to design a few ship designs to shine specifically during the melee phase.

So much to learn ^_^



I appreciate the responses thus far and direction to that custom faction optimization thread



Edit: Am I looking at this right, that I could offset the space cadets -science penalty by using something like knowledge gathering? I'm in the process of making some tweaks to a custom faction now using the above mentioned thread as reference in a few areas.

This is a somewhat random pieced together trait setup on a custom faction I was working on



Blockade Breakers

Builders 1/3

Dust Impaired 1/2

Dust Recyclers 1/2

Growth Plan 1/3

Knowledge Gathering 1/2

Legendary Heroes 2/2

Militarists 1/3

Optimistic 1/2

Sloppy Sawbones 2/2

Space Cadets 1/3

Wasted Space 1/2

Xenobotany 1



I'm sure this is hardly the most efficient setup, but i was just pulling random things that seemed appealing while trying to stick to my point limit

Ideally you want to choose a bunch of positive traits that reinforce your playstyle, and pick negatives to maximize faction points that have the least effect on your playstyle (i.e. do your heroes never die, then sloppy sawbones was a popular choice).



Alternatively you can handicap yourself by doing the exact opposite, and choosing negatives against your strengths. Up to you

Epimethee wrote:
I think you can find all the answers you need there :

/#/endless-space/forum/33-strategy-guides/thread/14023-optimizing-custom-factions

Ah thanx, i'll look that over see what kinds of tips and such it offers.



Think I'll try to build my custom factions off the U.E. , Sheredyn and Pilgrims affinities. Reading over that thread may give me some points since on the custom faction setup I have now I just made a few trait tweaks off the Pilgrims lineup

I think you can find all the answers you need there :

/#/endless-space/forum/33-strategy-guides/thread/14023-optimizing-custom-factions

Niteshade wrote:
Sidenote: So far it seems like a very nice overall community here on the forums and I look forward to being here.

Welcome to the forum Niteshade!

Nice community indeed, that's the Games2gether spirit.