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Let's be xenophobic, it's really in this year

That's the great thing about the latest update, you can genuinely stay in your corner and be peaceful and when that criminal syndicate on the other side of the galaxy wrongs you, you can just infiltrate the governments of the empires with the strongest militaries to goad them into a proxy war against that criminal syndicate.

Though as someone chronically bad at being evil in stellaris I usually end up just using it to make everyone focuse the crisis aspirants before they can snowball.

Everyone is a temporarily inconvenienced genocidal dictator in waiting.

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I am polluting their home to produce more weapons to exterminate them

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Aside from chopping too many trees, that's already how the game works. I don't remember where exactly it is but there's a button somewhere around the minimap or map UI to toggle whether you see a bunch of things on the map like robots, player names, your power lines, trains, and of course pollution.

The pollution toggle is pretty helpful for figuring out where alien bases are beyond the reach of your radars because they absorb pollution and organize attacks after they go above a certain threshold. Since they absorb it, if you see a gap or dip in the pollution for a particular area, there's likely a base there.

You could theoretically make the chopping trees prompting attacks part work too by making a mod where each tree cut down produces a small burst of pollution, assuming of course that a mod like that doesn't already exist.

Edit: when you set up a new save in the world settings you can adjust some of these thresholds and values. You can make the aliens more or less likely to attack, the terrain absorb more or less pollution naturally, the pollution spread more quickly or more slowly, etc.

Edit 2: just remembered that you can check every machine and they'll tell you how much pollution it produces as well. There's even a few mods that include machines with negative pollution production. I used those mods at one point in a previous save to make a fairly large base that didn't have any turrets despite a significant alien presence on all sides of my base. I simply made sure that no pollution ever could spread beyond my metaphoric wall and had several hundred hours of play without a single attack.

If the pollution bothered them so much, why do they building nests in it? That sounds like their problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They can move into pollution free zones. Not my fault that the bugs are lazy and can't pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I've got an industry to run!

That's a neat mechanic, needing to use the alien life for production. It kinda reminds me of the old days when you had to gather alien artifacts from destroyed nests as a resource.

Thanks!

I don't get to game much but have Satisfactory in my library, not Factorio. Every time I go to launch "that factory game" I look under the Fs and am always confused why I can't find it. 10 min later I'll realize I was thinking of Satisfactory... :P

The monsters in that don't really attack you unless you go to them

Mostly true. Mostly 🤫

Deathworlds are fun, my last one I had frequently 100s of buildings on fire and increased production to such a high degree to replenish combat losses. It was only when I came up with an overkill wall design and started implementing that all around the base starting from high risk points that the losses came down. The power demand was insane, GW of power just for the tesla turrets.

Gleba first run as a deathworld was probably not the best idea, but it was fun.