So, citybuilders and the like nonwithstanding, are there actually other games like SoaSE that enable you to win not by simply killing your enemy, but by spreading your propaganda far enough that you don't have to anymore?
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endless games
civ
stellaris, in a way
>games like SoaSE
wait, RTS's? I don't think so
space RTS's are already rare as it is
Victoria 3
Spore
age of empires
offworld trading company
Sword of the Stars
This isn't true at all. SotS barely has diplomacy (and it barely works). The closest to 'pacifism' is just committing genocide with stealth bio-weapon cruisers, but you're still killing planets with violence. There's no such thing as a culture victory in that game, it's emphatically a wargame.
>There's no such thing as a culture victory in that game
Your culture can flip planets to your side. There's a ship whose sole purpose is spreading your culture so planets flip to your side. It's not really culture so much as lowering their morale towards their own faction and raising it towards yours and hoping they join you when they rebel instead of going neutral, but it's the same thing.
>committing genocide with stealth bio-weapon cruisers
There are also bio weapons that just cause the people to convert to your side without killing them.
>killing planets with violence.
You can also force a planet to surrender without actually bombing it.
>barely has diplomacy (and it barely works)
I've had games where I just made alliances with everyone and won too.
yeah but nobody plays the gay lesbian girlboss faction. picrel is for real men.
Basado, always shoot to kill.
The AI pulled this trick on me just a few days ago
I feel so humiliated
lmfao, good edit
I remember once I played a multi-system map and when I invaded another star system late game all of the sudden my conquered planets started dying. Turned out it was my novalith shells finally arriving after travelling light-years through interstellar space. They were automatically firing at those planets while they were still enemy planets but the shells didn't arrive until after my fleets had swept through the area. Welp time to reinstall.
I have had the same problem
fricking love zooming out and seeing like 20 novalith shots all traveling towards a star system I'm currently dunking
is that a ship? and what game is it my good fellow sir?
>not knowing about the absolute ludo that is mentioned in the OP
>is that a ship?
no
based
Don't forget to spam those missiles too
Civilization
Offworld Trading Company not a city builder btw
pretty much any 4x???
Please explain to me how I can win in Master of Orion without waging war. Remember that mind control only works on undefended colonies.
any civ clone has a science or culture victory
you'll probably have to fight a war to win in that way, but it's not like you have to kill everyone