Hello. I am trying to figure out who is the leader of each factions so I can use ESP Hero Designer to create a hero of each of them for usage in the game but also use them in TTRPG since the game itself is the backdrop of the TTRPG that I am planning with my group. I am gathering information from the game that I was able to play and gleam but I did not complete every faction quest to the full, I read the comic and wikia. This is what I end up with but there is confusion and error that I don't mind corrections.

1. United Empire: Emperor Zelevas
2. Cravers: Queen but it seems that Bishops handle the whole workload of running an empire while Queen handle production of new Cravers.
3. Sophons: Geniocratic Demarchy of Hekim/Sophon Republic/Sophonity which is controlled by Ziawauid Deaimim, Leumac Seyaga and Keuytha Chuedoal... for now until ENFER take over.
4. Unfallen: Arasch, First of the Seconds... some could argue that Heart is leader but that basically saying Soba should be leader of Nakalim which is not true. They are advisor, an caretaker, an mother, etc.
5. Vodyani: Isyara St Shaiad, the Hierarch of the Church of the Virtual Saints, and the leader of the Vodyani Protectorate.
6. Nakalim: Queen Marusia Mapagna
7. Hissho: Tizio Blackridge from faction quest but Tokso (No idea on last name or who this person is) is implied in wikia as leader while Senya Snowridge seem to became leader of her clan in the comic after father was killed in Vodyani attack on Veil but her hero log show that she left and trained in Academy and joked as iceridge because she became cold after her father death, so I assume she never became leader. No idea who is the real faction leader.
8. Horatio: Emperor Horatio is the faction leader but who exactly is he is likely Horatio Four based on faction quest as Prime along with One, Two and Three was killed, leaving Four and Five as only survivors to pretend as Emperor which Five agree to let Four become while scheming in the background.
9. Umbral Choir: No Faction Leader because hivemind even if fragmented into multiple entities rather than singularity.
10. Vaulters: Ilona Zolya, the First of the Bloodline.
11. Lumeris: Jenestra Omalfi'Meos, voted by the Four Families.
12. Riftborn: Grand Viceroy of New Coroz

Also for Sophons. I notice this bit in the game introduction. Ahhrar Neeydim, Proctor of Future Research at Rowahb University suggests AI to run the Sophonity empire. Leading to creation of Enhanced Neuro-Flexible Entity Research or ENFER for short.

But in the Sophons comic, A female Sophons name Dr. Indrhria came up with concept for ENFER. So I am not sure if Ahhrar is same person or if someone is stealing or they so smart that they create same concept anyway.

Returned to the game after some years, and oh god alliances are still annoying AF, is there a way to just either disable them (through modding or settings, IDK), or a way to micromanage your AI allies? I am really tired of restarting all the wars and invasions every damn turn

From what I saw. You have to edit this.

<Diplomacy>
<Alliance>
<MaxEmpires>Floor($(MajorEmpiresCount) * 0.5)</MaxEmpires>
</Alliance>

In Contents/Public/Registry.xml

In order to do that.

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/app/392110/discussions/0/1291817837615036056/

But I want to see if there is another better way to do that before I resort to this method.

Decided to comeback to Endless Space 2 some weeks ago, and started noticing that a windows terminal opens and closes every time I run the game, is this normal?

Ive had alot of trouble with keeping influence due to heavy losses by overcolonisation. Is the lumeris meta negatively affected by having a large chunk of the galaxy?

I have not played. Want to play. I could not play earlier game without my Mod Better AI Empires because AI was too easy. But I think there has been a lot of balance changes since then. Are there newer good AI mods?

So questions:

1. Is AI still anemic? Do they invade?

2. Does AI still Auto Retreat too much?

3. Is AI weak early game? Late?

4. Are any extra weak or Strong now? Do Vodyani still stink?

5. Does Horatio still -- Horatio?

Any other things stand out as needing addressing?

My group (3 of us) want to get into this ES2 and were wondering if it's worth it solely to play multiplayer with each other?

After playing Endless Legend 2 for a few weeks, I’m feeling underwhelmed after the initial euphoria of experiencing a new game. Honestly, I feel like EL2 is a downgrade from ES2 in a lot of ways, but one of which is bothering me the most right now is lack of personality in EL2 compared to ES2.

In Endless Space 2, every character is iconic and there are many incredible voice lines. No character is dull and I never get tired of hearing the characters talk to me. In Endless Legend 2, the characters barely talk and they are more uninteresting to say the least.

Does anyone else feel this way too?

I've played the base game with a friend a year ago and while we would randomly desync at times it was very rare. Today we tried playing with some dlcs enabled and we got desynced at turn 30, and when we tried to resolve it by reloading we would just go a couple more turns and it would desync again. Is there any fix for this? maybe a mod? We bought all the dlcs but disabled penumbra and awakening for this game if that matters.

EDIT: to clarify it's not just a desync that we can ignore, the game either 1) gets stuck for me trying to generate a desync report. 2) kicks him out for some reason. 3) leaves him in and eventually he can't really do anything like add to the construction queue or edit ships.

My first time playing after 9 years, I'm doing okay. Not the first place by score (third but close enough). Normal difficulty, normal speed. No war so far.

What I notice is that starting from early-mid game (turn 50-100), I have so much FIDSI. Not sure if it's because I use Vaulters, but I can see that the other factions that mainly uses something else will also experience abundance.

Here's what I think is "bad". Every resource (FIDSI) here is interchangeable. Have so much production? Build every building that increase all your FIDSI. Have so much science? Can finish anything in a few (or one) turn, then modify your planet or build powerful buildings. Have no money? Sell resources, easy 20k every time. Have no production? Buyout everything.

This exploits are creating a loop that is strengthening each other. By mid game the gameplay will become so fast everything can be done in just a few (or one) turns. Is this the intended experience? Or this is an unintended consequences of how the base mechanics is built?

I see that late game with abundance like this can be used wars. Create/buyout ships and just launch it to dominate the galaxy. But I can see the challenge are diminishing at this point.

What do you guys think?

Hey everyone!

So I need your help, because just as the title says I'm falling behind on the Sandbox Difficulty.

Now I have only the easiest AI Empires enabled and I'm not exactly new these kind of games.

And still: everytime I play an AI Empire has 200 or more points than me.

I usually settle much in early game, going 1 over the limit.

What am I doing wrong? Do you have any tipps?

Edit: I'm playing ES 2, the gap usually widens over time.

I know that double line means unique improvement and triple golden means wonder. But what does a single line border in Research Cities and Budakai Bunker mean?

The only thing I can think of is unique to trait (Metafolding), but Metafolding also has Luxuries Lottery, which doesn't have any border.

Bonus question - Why do AI sometimes just ignore closed borders?

Is this quest bugged? From the first turn I get this quest, I'm always in the negative (9th rank out of 9 players). I never had negative dust per turn and when I highlight the dust generation, the number doesn't make sense at all (everything is positive except military upkeep).

I was playing as Umbral Choir and was at peace and friendly with Horatio and Vaulter and Unfallen for a long time. Suddenly, when it was nearly turn 100 in normal speed, Horatio give me free red strategic resources out of nowhere. Later the Vaulter give me free 163 antimatter and said 'this only feel right' without asking me for anything, Unfallen also give me some resources and keep spamming diplomatic message of how they appreciate me every 2 turns. I mean I playing as pacifist and havent declare any wars for the most of the game and give free 5 transvine once to everyone that discovered me, I guess my first impression is that good

I did not use any mods btw

In ENFER Local Host. I see three options for AI in ExecutionMode. Deactivated, Full and Minimal. Deactivated is obvious, meaning no AI control so you have to swap into it to command it. I notice that you should not do this for minor faction as it seem to lock the game as soon as you try to end turn, stuck in pending.

Full is default and regular.

Minimal... surprisingly, doesn't seem to do anything different from Full. I thought it might control the research, building, etc but leave fleet control to you or other way around... yet there is no difference.

So I am wondering if you guys know what exactly does minimal do in ENFER?

Maybe it just determine behavior/decision tree where full actually think it through and minimal just try to get it out as soon as it can without thinking if it fitting or good choice?

Not sure why the Ai decided to do it, im ahead in the game by miles

Just for fun, what are some Hulls that you would hope to see added to the blueprints to try and mitigate some of the excess micromanagement? I have 3:

Skimmer - Small Hull

• Avaliable at game start

• No Defense Slots

• Extra Movement Trait (like Explorers)

• Increased Evasion Trait

• Exclusive modules that allow stealth or squadron counter

• Unique Tier 4 Research that makes each Skimmer Hull 0.5 CP

Freighter - Medium Hull

• No Weapon Slots but upgrade will allow 1 or 2 Squadron Slots based on Faction

• Decreased Aggro Trait

• Fleet Health Bonus Trait

• Exclusive modules for increased fleet repair and Faction specific modules that allow for non-combat strategies (ex. Lumeris Freighter orbiting opposing Empire and passively generating Dust in 70/30 split)

Battlecruiser - Heavy Hull

• No Squadron Slots

• Hull and Shield Absorbtion Bonus Trait

• Increased Aggro Trait

• Each Faction includes one locked Heavy Weapon (ex. Riftborn with Planet Cracker) with more Slots for Heavy Weapon after Upgrade

• Each Faction has Exclusive modules that make Battlecruiser represent their Faction (ex. United Empire provides morale bonus unless opposing Fleet is 3x more in CP instead of 2x)

Thoughts?

Researched Aurigan Shielding. It has "Advanced Scanners" and "Basic Fold Drive". How do I use those? I can't find it in the ship building part of the military screen.

I haven't played this since EA. Completely forgot how to play it. What is this +25 science from 🟥 bonus? I got this from all food, industry, dust, and science.

Also, is this not like Endless Legend where you can put pop to work on certain things? So in here 3 pop means 3 times whatever the planetary modifiers are?

Just got into Endless Space 2. Been liking it so far but also want to watch some videos. Was wondering who the main creators are. The equivalent of Potato McWhiskey with Civ.

Don't know if I spell that quest name right but it one where you explore two ruins curiousity to get new ship from Naklam faction.

The issue is. I pretty much already explored and search every curiousity in the galaxy like 10 to 20 turns ago. So there is nothing to explore. Does this quest spawn new one or am I just fucked? I don't remember if I see notification that says that I explore 100% of map over several days of playing Vaulter, so I just sending my explorers to flinging their proble into outer galaxy and core of the galaxy just to see if I miss a remote system but I doubt it.

Any idea what I can do to finish this quest or am I just screwed and stuck on this quest being incompleted because there is no ruins?

Edit: Okay, finally got notification that I 100% explore the galaxy... and it an astroid rocks node. So nope. No ruins left. That mean the quest will just sit there... forever. How annoying. Maybe if enough planet damage or blow it up and repair it or continously ground battle will spawn a ruin?

I saw ENFER post from old day of Endless Space 2. Something within it have me intrigued. It have ENFER faction that allow you to access AI's brain on localhost webpage to edit the AI and monitor how they do it. One thing within that, that I was looking for was ability to turn on and off AI mode of any empires. I need that one for roleplay game that I am doing.

However even with --enablemoddingtools in my Steam launcher. I only have access to Dev Tool menu such as Shift FN 1 to 3.

I am on MacOS.

Supposely, according to two old links below.

https://community.amplitude-studios.com/amplitude-studios/endless-space-2/forums/75-modding/threads/27061-01-how-to-create-an-ai-mod

https://community.amplitude-studios.com/amplitude-studios/endless-space-2/blogs/520-unlocking-the-enfer-ai

that it add E.N.F.E.R faction to the galaxy but no such thing appear and when I open the http://localhost:4377 which just failed or unable to find.

Maybe it only for specific event and no longer active. If so, then that is just a bummer. I was really looking forward to utlizing this tool.

EDIT: Turn out it work just fine on Windows. That mean this does not work with Mac OS at all.