#Minor factions in endless space 2 guide upgrade
#Minor factions in endless space 2 guide series

When you mouse over curiosities, note that they are categorised. Use your explorer fleet, led by Lenko, to scan curiosities and find new systems to settle. As soon as you find a system you can colonise, move to it, and start the colonisation process. You can explore cautiously with the colony ship in the first few turns, or you can disband the fleet until it is needed.

#Minor factions in endless space 2 guide upgrade

You then need to go to your fleet and spend 30 to upgrade the existing colony ship to your new, faster design. Here you should remove the gun from you colony ship design, and add an extra engine in the spare support slot. In the top left of the screen select the Military Status tab, and look for Ship Designs. Use all that extra influence to buyout key system improvements, including the scientific ones that ultimately provide far more than the flat +30 you could get by choosing level 1 of Blue Sky Speculator in this tier.įleet ManagementSpeaking of the lack of early aggression, your colony ship is, by default, slow and armed. This has great synergy with rushing Trading Companies, as it is not overly hard to keep the Industrialists in power and Dimitri on the Senate earlier in the game. Level 1 - (on Senate) +50 per Trading Company on Empire. Finally, you don't really want to be settling systems with lots of Sterile planets if you can avoid it. Its value is low, and falls off progressively behind due to being a flat +5 bonus.

Invest your first skill points into either food and industry for basic system gains, or into influence if you have multiple minor factions to assimilate early on.Īvoid Person of Means early on unless you are really strapped for dust. By turn 9, Dmitri should have a few levels on him from curiosity hunting. Put engines a probe onto Dmitri's ship to help him keep up with your explorers. Please enjoy, leave feedback, and check out the rest of this series.

#Minor factions in endless space 2 guide series

The aim of this series is to demystify the game, opening it up to a wider range of players who might struggle to make sense of its varied mechanics, branching questlines, and dense UI with many obscure and similar icons. Moreover, crucial aspects of a faction can be spread over a wide range of intertwined game systems, such as 'affinities', 'traits', 'technologies', 'faction quests', 'population quests', and more. Each mechanic and faction in Endless Space 2 can involve a lot of depth, leaving new players overwhelmed and confused. This guide does include advice for managing systems introduced by these DLC, such as hacking and the Academy faction.Įndless Space 2 is a 4X game (Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate) with a lot of variety. Some players prefer the game without the Penumbra and Awakening DLC in their current form. It assumes the player owns all DLC and Add-ons released as of that date. It assumes the reader has played the game previously, and has some knowledge of the game's overall mechanics. This guide was made for game version 1.5.28.