Origins are great, add so much more flexibility with mods. Federation update is awesome cause the risk/reward cause you can spend the time and influence to wrangle your frenemies into a cohesive federation under your thumb is a good way to keep them in check. The Galactic Community is a useful place to get boosts and get the AI to respond to threats, plus super fun in multiplayer. But the only thing I don't like is how a Gesalt like the Driven Assimilator can get a massive diplomatic weight cause they just ate half the galactic community and no one is denouncing them.

Also, bug I've noticed. AI tend to create dozens of small fleets instead of creating larger forces, nor do they form into a unified force when fighting say a 100K stack of a Fallen Empire that is three jumps away from their homeworld.

Origins are great, add so much more flexibility with mods. Federation update is awesome cause the risk/reward cause you can spend the time and influence to wrangle your frenemies into a cohesive federation under your thumb is a good way to keep them in check. The Galactic Community is a useful place to get boosts and get the AI to respond to threats, plus super fun in multiplayer. But the only thing I don't like is how a Gesalt like the Driven Assimilator can get a massive diplomatic weight cause they just ate half the galactic community and no one is denouncing them. Also, bug I've noticed. AI tend to create dozens of small fleets instead of creating larger forces, nor do they form into a unified force when fighting say a 100K stack of a Fallen Empire that is three jumps away from their homeworld.