Posted by: Droll
« on: November 28, 2020, 10:37:38 AM »I actually had exactly the opposite experience (in 1. 9. 5). I have found two NPRs sitting on the same planet once, and they were completely peaceful towards each other. They lived without war for at least 30 or 40 years (I dropped the game afterward). One was ~3 times bigger than another; both had some ships in home system, but only one (the bigger one) was actively traveling outside of it and had made a couple of colonies in other systems.
Probably I was very lucky, and they randomly were generated as very peaceful (low xenophobia?), but just to point out that it is possible to see.
I like the idea of total war of two NPRs from the same planet thou, but probably as a rare occasion. An option to turn off paired NPRs would be nice too.
I also encountered a paired star NPR scenario where the two species were at peace. It made the war against them interesting as I had to deal with both their fleets as one used lasers and the other used particle beams.