Once you have created your empire and are in your game, your first port of call is building extra science ships, aim to have around 4 science ships in total, this way you can explore your neighboring systems much faster and then expand there.

This means that you start the game with a significant bonus to your economy, allowing you to purchase alloys or minerals to expand faster in the early game and get your economy up and running much faster than a normal empire.

Starting with the void dwellers’ origin allows you easy access to trade value from the very start of the game, being able to construct powerful trade districts on your habitats. Gospel of the masses also provides a trade value bonus to all Spiritualist pops, but crucially allows you to build the temple of prosperity within your branch offices, increasing spiritualist attraction to that planet and giving you even more profit. The free traders civic gives you an extra 10% trade value and branch office value, meaning you can make a lot more profit from your trade networks and branch offices. In my opinion, the best civics to start a MegaCorp pacifist game is the ‘Free traders’ and ‘gospel of the masses’ civics. To effectively play as a MegaCorp pacifist you’re going to want to take the xenophile, pacifist, and spiritualist ethics, these allow you to cultivate relationships with your neighbors whilst also giving you valuable spiritualist pops which can greatly benefit your empire when paired with the gospel of the masses civic.

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