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How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« on: March 21, 2016, 08:16:18 AM »
Hello,

In my game the goal is to discover all the systems.  My first NPR was very hostile, so they had to die.  But now I am nearly finished with exploration, but found two more NPRs, one of them is really friendly and likely very low tech level (they don't even have spaceships as far as i can tell), the other one is slightly friendly but surely very xenophobic b/c diplomacy progress is veeeery slow.  These guys have a lot of ships though, and they didn't attack me yet, but they make the game very slow b/c pf their ships.  I am tempted to destroy them just because of this.  It would surely be easier now since they haven't spread out yet i guess.
So I was just curious how do you treat your NPR races in your games? In particular, friendly NPRs? Do you let them live, or destroy them asap?
 

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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2016, 08:45:24 AM »
I like to have long wars with enemy NPRs, but with friendly ones I tend to be friendly and do some trading and eventually get into an alliance.
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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2016, 09:00:59 AM »
Are they staying friendly in the long run? Don't backstab you later with your own high tech?
How do you trade with them? You mean, the civilians doing the trading, right?
 

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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2016, 11:19:23 AM »
Are they staying friendly in the long run? Don't backstab you later with your own high tech?
How do you trade with them? You mean, the civilians doing the trading, right?
Yes, you find one of their colonies (and they one of yours), enter a trade agreement, and civies will trade and generate income.
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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2016, 12:40:26 PM »
I like to keep the friendly's that way.  I have enough problems with the unfriendlys.
 

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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2016, 03:11:42 PM »
The complete genocide of every other race in the galaxy is the only possible and safe solution.
 

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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2016, 07:35:40 PM »
Every single sentinel galactic civilization consumes more "Galactic Processing Power", so the only solution is to integrate into a single sentinel civilization ;D.
 

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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2016, 08:40:54 PM »
You people know how things work. :)
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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2016, 09:25:01 AM »
My last game ended abruptly because of bugged NPR ships somewhere created zillions of error messages, so this is another reason for a preventative cleansing.  ;)
 

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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2016, 09:57:32 AM »
I've never actually seen a friendly NPR :P
 

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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2016, 11:14:10 AM »
I remind you of the 4th X. EXplore, EXpand, EXploit,<dalek> EXTERMINATE! </dalek>
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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2016, 12:37:45 PM »
I remind you of the 4th X. EXplore, EXpand, EXploit, EXTERMINATE!
I always keep it in mind when I'm dealing with enemies. I drop a few hundred worldburner bombs on them.
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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2016, 05:19:11 PM »
Sometimes I play 4 times EXterminate simply.
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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2016, 02:35:58 PM »
I've never actually managed to stay on friendly terms with xenos. Not for more then a few decades at least.

Even if we have tradeships going back and forth between our colonies they always end up launching missiles at my ships sooner or later.
Nowadays I just give all xenos I come across the "warhammer solution" as soon as possible.
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Re: How do you treat friendly NPRs in your games?
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2016, 04:48:53 PM »
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So I was just curious how do you treat your NPR races in your games? In particular, friendly NPRs?

I will let you know if i ever see one ...

Srsly, my First Contact always end's up in all out shooting wars.
Only friendly NPR's are in my Multi Earth starts ( even Multi Sol starts always end up in flames ).
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You have just pushed me."