The Endless Space Academy: Endless Space 2 Craver Guide 

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2828917317 Hope this helps!

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Absolutely. You're a lifesaver.

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I'm glad you like them and I hope you learned something!

I'm glad you learned something! I've been pretty busy recently but I will make a new video soon, I've learned some new strategies as well that I think many people could use.

Thanks for the feedback! Personally I'm not the biggest fan of the unfallen so perhaps it would be good for me to learn them.

It's good, would be better with easier starting colonizations! It's nice to have 5 planet systems of course. ;) I did another game that had a very terrible start and it made the video very long so I restarted and rolled this one.

I've tried the new patch and it just doesn't compare to the ESG mod yet, the low animation speed really hurts as waiting for probes to go takes a significant amount of time on 4x compared to 64x speed. Unless it's almost identical to the ESG mod I most likely won't use it.

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The easiest way to win is to take all other capitals and get a supremacy victory. I usually find that to be the most fun way to win, sitting and winning by gathering enough dust feels silly to me, at least in Endless Space. The best way to take capitals is to create your attacker fleet with at least 3 coordinates for support and the rest carriers with beams and shield emps. Then you make another fleet that has as many manpower modules as possible, make sure to give each ship the fastest engine you can afford. Planes are the best troop as they do the most damage so use these. With most coordinators with around 32 CP you should have around 600-800 troops landing which is almost impossible for an opponent to win. You will want seeker heroes to lead these fleets as they get the 1.5 fleet movement speed module and can also accept an extra fleet cloaking module. Then you send both of the fleets right toward the capital you want and just take the capitol first, this is usually the most crippling. Another reason to use cloaking is when you invade, you uncloak your invasion ships and re cloak your attacker ships, this keeps your attackers full on manpower so they can fight at 100% if you get countered. I will likely continue this craver game soon so I can show late game military strategies as it's where I see most people struggle as they don't know effective designs. Thanks for the response!

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I've been very busy recently, I'm likely going to make a guide for a new faction probably hissho.

@@theendlessspaceacademy Good news i can't wait!! Keep Up the good work

The trees are my least favorite unfortunately! They don't really have a unique strategy, their best way to win is to take advantage of an alliance and entwine as many systems are possible, and declaring war counters this fairly hard. Maybe eventually!

The update and mod were made by the same person so the update mostly puts the game in line with it, however the mod is better imo.

If the update covers more of the mod then yes, right now the update is now where near complete, for example the mod has animation speed x64 while the update has max x6 or something low, this can slow the game down a bunch. There are a lot of little things like that. For now I will continue with the ESG mod.

Early game it's a toss up, beams are still the best weapons but if someone goes full beams with full shields to counter beams, a full kinetic fleet would win. Late game kinetics are worse off and laser or bombers are best.

Unfortunately you can't choose, one of the issues with the games population management. You should make specific worlds that you ship only cravers to for the purpose of culling pops. This way, your core worlds have a high chance to spawn non cravers pops while the other crap worlds are there just for resources and to hold pops. You want to move cravers out from your core worlds before they deplete, anything with 3 or less planets I just let deplete.

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Perhaps a change from the mod or being on fast speed?

It's not too bad to manage, husk is already depleted at the start. You just need to colonize ;)