Why only have an offensive or defensive battle trait if this would work for either? Perfect synergy with anything else which boosts ship combat or fleets in general.

This is in my opinion the single best trait for fleets/ships/combat as itвЂ™s completely flexible for all strategies. IвЂ™ll highlight a few exceptionally good choices though: There are so many options/viable strategies for positive traits that I donвЂ™t really want to give you a template for this as you should try and work around your own strengths and weaknesses. Still, itвЂ™s the best negative pick after the вЂmust havesвЂ™. ItвЂ™s not the end of the world, but it can be a bit of a pain later in the game if youвЂ™re engaged in massive wars.

Optional if you are short a few points for your ideal traits: Deep Roots вЂ“ Makes it harder to gain ownership on systems.

The only effect is that your systems take less time to surrender during an invasion, generally by a few turns at most. You should focus on not having your systems invaded in the first place вЂ“ if this does happen, having additional points to spend in both industrial capacity or fleet/combat strength is far more valuable to deal with this.

Feeble Warriors (Defense) вЂ“ Reduces the defense on your systems.

Administrative heroes will never suffer from this, itвЂ™s a no brainer. Secondly, if this happens you have bigger things to worry about than waiting a few turns longer to get the hero back. First, the fleet with your hero on it will rarely get completely defeated.

Sloppy Sawbones (Hero) вЂ“ Increases the time it takes for your heroes to heal after they are injured.

YouвЂ™ll rarely use them and if you play correctly youвЂ™ll have plenty of dust once this becomes an issue. Honestly, this makes no difference at all.

Dust Impaired (Hero) вЂ“ Makes the abilities your heroes can use during battles more expensive.

In order to get the best selection of points for positive traits, there are a few negative traits you can pick which really make no difference at all to your chances.

A lot of choices are perfectly viable, but I would recommend you think of what you want to achieve with your race and try to design some synergies between your chosen traits. You can tailor the race to your play style and the type of game you are playing and itвЂ™s generally the best way to go. In absolutely all cases, a custom faction is better than the pre-made ones. This guide is correct at the time of writing, based on Endless Space v1.0.30. IвЂ™ve played this game quite a bit both before release and after вЂ“ mostly in multiplayer with James Wells, another author at Mana Pool and during this time there are quite a few things weвЂ™ve learned.

In order to help you get more out of the game, and hold your own against the harder AI or even in multiplayer, weвЂ™ll go through some strategies and general tips. Nevertheless this game is a lot of fun and there are plenty of choices to be made when playing it, leaving many players with a huge number of questions. Worse, it has absolutely no carriers, fighters or space stations which is a big negative). ItвЂ™s not as indepth as some other titles in the genre and it has some way to go to really approach the level weвЂ™d expect and want from a proper 4x title (itвЂ™s still a little light on the combat side вЂ“ especially in terms of ship hull and weapon varieties. Endless Space is a brilliant little 4x game by indie studio Amplitude.

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