I was tired of this friendly AI following me BS and I had an Idea:

I'm gonna grind myself to get into a nice militaristic bastard FED, pack all my systems with defense stations and

disband all my fleets.

this is how it turned out:
My FED now owns 50% of the galaxy, 40% of those 50% are under my control. 1/4 of the galaxy is mine now.
with 35 to colonized planets, and 4 vassals,

with no fleets!

I'm materialist(for that tech boost), xenophile(for the extra embassy), individualist(for the extra cash to maintain defense stations)
my pop is intelligent(tech boost), natural engineers(to get that warfare tech as fast as I can) and weak (because: robots)
I'm running science directorate because I like the research alternative and that extra leader for my sectors.
I could have gone plutocratic, it would save me a lot of trouble and a lot of tradings and diplomatic work.
but hey, what would I do then? stare at the screen?

Since I don't have any fleets the AI actually does their job at defending them self, me and/or attacking other civs.
I mostly just need build robot armies to invade planets and thats it, this is my active role on war time.
(besides having a suicide science ship packed with shields scouting the fights)
when I feel like I need to accelerate the war I just build one corvette, do some escort jobs and its done.
It was hard to maintain energy costs since I have like 3 to 9 fortress and some random defense stations in most of my colonized planets,
but with some nasty tradings, edicts and also thanks to the new sector improvements, everything is running sweet.
No fleets means sometimes civs want piece of me xD but they all change their mind when sent to oblivion by my defense systems.
20k fleet is no match to 9 fortress, and if they manage to destroy half of my defenses my FED friends arrive just in time to save the day,
and its time to get those construction ships to work.

And I'm not done here.

I actually saw an ally backstab the FED and form an alliance to kick my ass!
never saw this happen before.
I dont have terror bombing rep debuffs, I'm not a threat, I'm a friendly trading guy xD
With some diplomatic work to keep that rep positive, peaceful civs as well as my vassals love me,
I think its because their military power is 'superior', so I can easily maintain constant trading with them to support my defenses and the FED .
I also make sure to import minerals from my soon-to-be-targets,
so they can't have resources to make a proper defense as soon as trade deal goes off.
My 'enemies' have like -100 rep, and its only like.. 2 civs.
16 of 24 empires have positive rep even when my FED takes half of their systems to my control.
All my extra funds go to the FED allies, sometimes for free, so they can have resources to build 'my fleets' xD


Never had so much fun in this game..
Man.. not even in EU.
'Venice-like war style', or in a more recent approach, 'Oil tycoon style',
making the FED do my agenda.

Still...

You guys know where I am getting to.. another reminder to the most game breaking aspect of Stellaris.

This playthrough was all about testing friendly AI behavior without interference of my ships in war time,
if it actually does his job, see how a proper federation work.. check out their struggles during wars.
and at the same time see if I could survive going full 'Venice' and do my shit through trade and diplomacy.

and it works.

They don't 'doomstack' on each other, not even enemies!
they even split fleets guys... to take out multiple targets.
I saw them flanking, doing ambushes, engaging multiple worlds and fleets at the same time.
Behaving like they should when we fight together.
Like enemies behave when they attack u.
All kinds of crazy stuff I bet no one here ever saw your allies do.

And even though it worked, it only did BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T FOLLOW ME.
I could never take part of an actual fight besides sending armies to invade planets.
Because if I had fleets, they would stack on me...
and all the fun would go away... no more AI flanking, no more AI ambushes...
No more multiple AI invasions and defense wars at the same time.
'Doomstack' wars all over again, because enemies would start 'doomstacking' too.

FEDs and allies fell like assets, reinforcements..
and yes they will stack on you even if u have 1 ship.

I want a FED with civs that dont do shit, like me.. stay at home defending..
See AI defending their friends homeworld when the others are invading the enemy
(Like I saw because I HAD NO FLEET)
See the AI taking an actual role on the wars they demand us to be a part of.
I want to be a part of the core.. not the actual general.
the state of this game now is ME against the galaxy.
no need to make feds or allies if thats what u guys want.

Please do something about this guys, don't let it slide.

on a side note:
1) I edited some of the most militaristic personalities so most of them have 1.5 to 2.0 on military spending ;)
to make sure my allies would spend my money and minerals in fleets.

2) we have custom bios now guys.. time to start creating some cool empires, no more random empire generation on new games!

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