Endless Space 2 - Politics guide

[@The5lacker]

I gotta say, probably the best idea the Endless Space had was to make a whole bunch of honestly fairly simple systems, and then make complexity and depth by linking them together. Expertly crafted game, great vids man!

[@kaydenfranklin4026]

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[@bennettasa7355]

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[@kaydenfranklin4026]

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[@bennettasa7355]

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[@badejong]

Thank you very much for these videos. ES2 can be a bit complex at times so these videos are really helpful.

[@Omidion]

Damn ! U don't waste time...u keep on producing these vids so fast without the loss of content quality :) Good job, keep up the good work !

[@Arthounot]

i agree!

[@hinin3024]

Hi ! Thank you very much for your hard work ! Your guides are top notch ! If I dare ask, some things could also be described in your future guides, if you have time : - The different laws and their effects (+ the minor faction laws, so difficult to obtain) - The minor factions : diplomacy, assimilation bonus, population (base yield + collection bonus) : how to use them, what assimilation/collection bonus to seek - Anomalies and unique planets (you show a list of them and give your opinion : some a clearly better than others) Once again, thank you for your good work !

[@ShanomoBro]

I really appreciate all these guides as a new player from the recent steam lunar new year sales. I wish I had these to advise me on every 4x I play :P

[@255205titel]

Really great and detailed introduction. Thanks!

[@vtine85]

I really appreciate this video series. Keep them coming!

[@Arthounot]

14:45, quite right. A lot of votes can be seen as unhappy votes. Choosing for the best in line. Not necessarily the favourite.

[@o0pinkdino0o]

I'd advise against auto-piloting it. I had four games go to anarchy cascade before finding this guide. Thank you !!!

[@stevemorris3746]

It is always a good idea to know at least your major population's political views. Having your government get hijacked by a different party you didn't want can lead to huge setbacks. The most notorious government hijackers are militarists. I have heard many a story of peaceful players getting caught in a war and their whole empire gets hijacked by militarists and they can't get it back. The funny thing is the way to stop this is to build a military. Many factions will pick on weaker empires. Vodyani, United Empire and Cravers are the biggest offenders, but Lumeris and sophons have also been seen bullying weaker empires. Your populations get scared when there is no fleet around when hostile fleets fly through your territory. Having a system blockaded or attacked greatly increases Militarist opinion if you have no means of defense. It is always a good idea to at least have defensive fleets and to actively try for peace deals when your playing as a peaceful empire. The more peace deals you have the less of a chance you will get caught in a war. You also get a 10% boost to everything per peace deal if your government is pacifist which is a huge bonus for Unfallen and Lumeris. I think you should do a video on Diplomacy if your familiar with the subject. It is always nice to know how to make friends and what will set your neighbors off.

[@WaervynsWorld]

Steve Morris good idea! I've been thinking if this but I haven't figured out influence pressure properly yet. I think I understand it but it never seems to work. also thanks again for your very helpful comments.

[@stevemorris3746]

Im not too sure how influence pressure works myself, but that is a pretty small part of diplomacy. There are the different personality traits for different empire's leaders that give you a good idea of how they will act. There is the ability to tell at a glance if an AI leader is friendly or aggressive towards you as their portraits emote in the diplomacy screen. How to avoid angering factions if your looking for peace, namely not flying ships into their territory while in cold war or expanding too close to certain empires. How to swap empire views so you can see the relationship between other empires. How trade and science deals work, How to set up and maintain alliances, How passive system conversion works. Diplomacy is a pretty extensive part of the game that a lot of people tend to brush off. If you learn how to use it and work it right though you can fight wars with out building a single ship, generate more science and dust and even Luxuries not native to your empire. Trade influence for new sciences. One time a Vodyani declared war on me and I dragged the whole galaxy into it. Diplomacy is something you should look into as it can provide some good bonuses if you know how to navigate it. Especially the Lumeris Planet Broker. You can do some mean stuff with that.

[@jayrinaldi]

Great comment Steve. I totally agree on that the diplomacy topic should be next. Especially the influence pressure (too bad you haven't figured that completely out yet neither :D). I also don't get that I get messages from the AI telling me that an offer is coming or some other strange text and nothing is happening. or that there are no pro-active deal suggestions from the AI.

[@stevemorris3746]

The AI will suggest deals but only if they like you. I believe the AI has to be at least cordial with you to suggest peace. So depending on what their relationship level is with you they will suggest deals. Though if your playing for diplomacy it is always a good idea to make the deals yourself as you have more control and if your generous enough you can maintain a good relationship.

[@paula194]

I know this is a few moths old, but I've found that a good way to prevent this from happening is to just make sure you're churning out a reasonable amount of military ships the whole game, and if you're lumineris, try and keep all your ship production in your smallest system, where you keep all your gnashast. Just make sure you watch the military to pacifist ratio the whole time, limiting the ships you pop out.

[@Millendix]

Hey Waervyn! I really like your videos they helped me out a lot. Well just talking about the Endless Space 2 ones though but keep up the work these are great! Oh and dont mind me too much just a german guy talking :D

[@WaervynsWorld]

Dominique Melitzki gutentag!

[@Millendix]

Guten Tag!

[@SpartanXfive]

Dude your videos are really awesome and help me a lot. Thank you ! I've to admit I defenetly need a diplomatic guide

[@KrashTjubang]

Very useful video, I have had some thoughts about that political system as well :)

[@crystallkingh3048]

Could you make one about heroes? I'm a bit confused to how they gain experience

[@Phlip45]

Love these videos. Any plans on doing videos on the trade company systems?

[@frislander4299]

I see the Endless Legend universe uses something Single Transferrable Voting nice

[@kotapainting]

Can we get a diplomacy guide next? I am loving ES2, but the diplomacy is nebulous as all hell in that game... Great guides!

[@jayrinaldi]

I agree. diplomacy is kinda strange in this game.

[@mikepliek]

i can give you a tip if you want, for starters influence is the most important resource for diplomacy. what i have discoverd is if you are against AI, no matter what difficulty, if you dont make peace with them the same turn you meet they will not approve the peace the following turn until maybe 10/15 turns after not doing anything to them. simply trading recources with other races + trying to get information is key of diplomacy. keeping peace with every one can give you massive boosts like in trading route(making a trading HQ will increase the production you get if you trade with a friendly empire, same goes for sience approval but instead of dust and luxuries you get sience boosts) if you have any other questions just ask em to me.

[@winterlord9942]

really good man, love these videos :)

[@petrnevecny1440]

That intro beat.. do you have a whole track of that?

[@joethesheep4675]

What i would really appreciate is that they let us pick a leader of a political party. Right now its just. 1st to come = winner.. which is not really cool. Especially since u get such random-hero-roles: Even if u include the market u are never able to get the exact heroes u want.. which would be fine if u could at least influence who leads a political party. It would be cool if the hero of the highest lvl of that party would take it. That would make sence and one could easily control that (and its indircet so it fits into covernmenttypes... i guess ^^).

[@zeroisnine]

Do you have any estimates has to how much of an impact each of the influence actions has? I've always been reluctant to influence them as I usually want to keep my default party, I just want the influencing party to come up 2nd or 3rd.

[@255205titel]

And do you know whether we could choose our own political leader with better senate skills?

[@snerls]

Loving these, any chance you'll do one for combat? edit: nvm, only now found the Ship design guide, which basically answered all the questions i had. Cheers!

[@Shinypally]

Awesome! I was looking for something like this for a LONG time. How could I have missed it? (I guess the title doesn't say the key words I was looking for.) Thanks a ton for this video. There is something I don't understand though. How do representatives fit into the system-wide population? Are they determined only at elections or is the process gradual, based on what you build in the system? Later when you show the strongarm part, it would suggest the Representatives are chosen only during elections and they stay that way until the next election. It's a huge shame that many-many systems are badly explained or obscured by Amplitude. :( I think they lose a lot of players because of this. Also, does the military ship build stack? It seems that only one event type can be active at any given time. Do you know if building several ships actually stacks for influence or it's enough to build one every 15(?) turns to keep the bonus rolling. Your video explained it to me in a detailed I gave up on ever achieving. Now, if I can nail these last few details, I'll be completely happy! Btw, how do you find out these things? Experimenting? Or do you have a secret source? :D

[@goodgamer13572]

I have a big problem what is "political opposition" and how to negate it?

[@kubermr29]

Tell about specific Minor Factions laws.

[@sdauz]

This sounds like a preferential voting system used in australia

[@webkilla]

Is there any way to counter militarist leanings in the mid and late-game? I'm in a round 150-ish United Empire game, and due to pirates and cravers pretty much my entire empire is leaning heavily militarist - but I need an industrialist majority to win an election for a united empire quest I have (that requres 4 industrialist laws active at the same time) ...there doesn't seem to be any way of doing this - and I need to keep cranking out war-ships because of the damn Academy quest as well. It seems that every game I play is doomed to turn militarist because of all the fighting that happens in the game

[@darkening1093]

become a Dictator

[@ireofdesire7269]

Is there a place where one can see all available policies for each leaning? I have hard time choosing to focus on a party when I don't know the potential benefits.

[@eidolon9625]

I believe you can check them in the government screen, even for parties that are not currently active.

[@Draco-pv8ie]

"Lower Fleet Cost Opinion... Sorry, Law." He's not wrong. Laws ARE opinions.

[@mrbastone1992]

Great video, I never knew about the votes going to adjacent political parties. Also I don't know if you mentioned it here and I missed it, but when there is a tie does the incumbent party win?

[@WaervynsWorld]

Oef, never had a tie! I'll have to try doing this! :)

[@TomorrowWeLive]

I recently started playing this game, and in my very first election (playing as United Empire with Federation government) the two smallest parties (Pacifist and Ecologist) won the election. How does that make sense?

[@alibouk227]

Check the ideology circle for pops notice the smaller parties have each two other smaller parties that divert their votes to the neighboring bigger small parties which means the small parties get the votes of several parties and kablam.

[@KaelWW]

This is actually unrelated, but how do you unlock Titan of Industry? I have a level 18 hero, but none of his tier 4 skills are available.

[@Emicenizo]

8:13 nice

[@sollitdude1]

can you change the political representative for your party? this vid is already quite old, did they change it in the meantime?

[@WaervynsWorld]

I don't think they changed it, at least I haven't figured out a way.

[@LegosDeus]

The highest level hero gets the spot. SO raise level of the one you want or sell the one you don't want...

[@Arthounot]

Fantastic.

[@mattbrassfield2291]

Well Horatio are the like the Ghandi players of Civ 5 they are made to have MONO populations and a Dictatorships because there end game per splice mechanic is spicy 2% per splice on Science and industry brings allot of flexibility to that style of Government.

[@Arthounot]

9:01 jeej

[@abcdef-ln9lu]

I like how you said "global" effects apply to all planets. We need new dictionaries :P