>play a payback faction
>it's business as usual except retards commit suicide at your capitals starbase every 15 years
>the enemy faction is on the other side of the map
>whatever, I'll just wait for warp technology
>finally get to a point where i can declare war
>plot choice requires their total extermination, ok.tm
>finally win, only 39% exhaustion
>except there's two other former cuck factions that now have elected one to be the new overlord and they're still at war
>and they didn't do anything the entire war because theyre both at the furthest point away from me
>no way to end the war without getting vassalized status quo is greyed out
well that sucked
flavor text is the only thing i like about this game. diplo menu spam is unbearable, same with the notifications. and voting on random shit constantly in the un and getting pinged for it absolutely blows my ass. i never join it.