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« on: May 23, 2023, 12:55:38 pm »
Yes, basically. One strength is that you have diverse population and a good chance of good habitability for early game expansion. You're behind from the start while economy and stability are main problems. There are some projects that mitigate that. The devs seem to have invested some time into integrating that start into the flow of the rest of the game. E.g. details from the viewpoint how the population/empire would react to various game events (i.e. not agnostic to a slaver empire joining your federation etc, laws and outcomes of wars.) giving bonuses or maluses.
One problem I have encountered is that liberation wars that imposes your ideology on other empires in some cases tend to revert back to slaver ethics (even if repeated, and you can't integrate empires requiring more than 1000 influence in one go, so basically I have 20 years left to old school annex the last slavery-enabled empire apart from 2 stray pre-FTL that don't fulfill abolitionst conditions where I gamble on them changing ethics - outright invading my allies and taking the planets is too late since I'm not allowed to invade pre-FTL due to xenophilia (which can be changed over a longer time though ) ).
