u/Tryagain409

Listen, listen. I love xenos but specifically I love them being in MY EMPIRE.

Now that they've changed crisis to ambition and added defender of the galaxy it seems apparent there will be more neutral and 'good' ambition paths. So what's to come?

Maybe a Megacorp ambition where we end stage capitalism buy the galaxy?

A nomad ambition to make travel to other galaxies possible?

Democratic crusader ambition where we make the galaxy free?

I mean you might say oh it's too dangerous but those car insurance businesses are for profit with decades of experience, surely they've set up their prices that, unless you're an outlier, you'll never get more out of them than they get from you?

If you don't have savings you'll need it of course if you hit something you can't pay for.

but maybe it's better to think of insurance like credit, something that'll help you now if you need it but will always cost more in the long run than spending your own money?

Of course theres always the chance you could hit a Ferrari and be fucked but maybe just drive slow around luxury cars and stay away if you can haha

No regime change or telling off or nothing it's just 'whew lucky we didn't wipe out the race Valen was from that could save the galaxy huh haha fellas good times'

I'm trying it out. Figure I can just make friends for waylines by force. Cant claim territory anyway so now it's all upside.

I made an individualistic robot empire with the cube portrait and called them democracy distributors.

They come to inspect your society and if it's found to not contain freedom they attack. Also they're plunderers so after you get some pirate hideouts. Hey man freedom isn't free lol.

And all these new democratic empires you make are vulnerable to subjugation later for tribute vaults.

Even after surviving the near genocidal war, humanity can stand up to Narns and Centauri at least enough to be their diplomatic equals.

So how strong were we before the Minbari? Could we beat Centauri?

I've just started rewatching and noticed creepy dudes from Earth keep saying this line haha. Wondering how many times am I going to hear it if I finish the whole series?

Like just for fun. I don't think it'd be too strong but there might be some interesting stuff

Brutal haha but hope he lives many more years. In remission is good.

I want to see one good farming year in Clarkson's farm give him a break

If you fly an arkship over to a planet, you dont get extra influence costs for distance like normal megacorps do. So you can build all your branch offices for 100 influence each.

It was fun to play nice evolutionary predators out there trying to collect all the dna this way.

its just not useful information. How is it useful to me to know that some random guy named Bob got stabbed on the other side of the country?

It's not just useless information, it's a downer! It puts me in a bad mood. It's sad. Why do I need to be sad about this guy I would never meet? It's bad for my mental health and I think all of society too it's why people are so scared these days.

if it was a story about murder statistics then yeah run the story, that's relevant information to being safe. If it's something unsolved and the police want us to report seeing the guy yeah run the story. But they'll just tell you that some idiot ran over a guy with his car in Peru and then drove off a cliff, case closed so what?

It's not like they're even covering most murders, hundreds get murdered around the world all the time they just pick one random guy arbitrarily to run a story on and ignore the rest, which leads to random conspiracy theories of "Oh why did they run the story on the black murder victim but not the white one" or vice versa, etc.

Hearing about a war that'll change the price of petrol is news worth hearing. Hearing about what's going on in the economy, where the new jobs are and whats happening, that's worth hearing. The news should be educational, not this weird sadness generating entertainment thing powered on the worst days in lives of random people.

You know, those campaigns when you lose like more than half your empire to a genocidal but get a truce? You pretty much know you're dead in ten years. You might have a chance to save the campaign now.

It just so happens to take ten years to build the arkship so it should be finishing around when your truce runs out so it could lead to some nail-biting moments before you can run off