Custom Empires - Grand AI Tournament (Finals - 2022)

This mod expands the selection stock of pre-scripted empires with the final best 16 community made AI empires – from 80 participants – of the Grand AI Tournament (Masters of the Universe – 2022-04-19 – Meet the BEST OF THE BEST). When starting a new game, Stellaris will randomly choose empires from the roster to seed throughout the galaxy. List of included Empires(Order by winning points) Mim Super Special Empire Directorate – (Machine Intelligence with pumped up Pop Production and Maintenance / Unity) Robots with increased population production – their only weakness – always perform well. They also have a simplified setup, like the hive minds, they need no or little food and no happiness modifiers which leads to robots always doing well in tech. When they have the population to bolster it with good ship production, they become likely potential winners. (by Gunmim) Sathweer Sacred Theocracy – “Slimy Water Dragon Worshippers” Aquatic Egalitarian Xenophobe Spiritualist Here Be Dragons Theocratic Oligarchy Shining the spotlight not only on this well balanced and only xenophobe of the final that is very well set up to constantly expand, something xenophobes excel at. But xenophobes are bad at making friends, so their weakness is their defense. When they have a Dragon to protect them early on, they can really do consistently well.. like the Sathweer here. Grimer Conglomerate – “Friendly Anglerfish Traders” Aquatic Xenophile Fan. Materialist Corporate Trade League It is deceiving: The Grimer were eliminated in round one. But that was mostly due to bad luck after a great start. Corporations mostly get a great start, and if they can convert that to the later game stages, they are set up for a beautiful game. The Galactic Stock Market of Worlds – “Corporate Hedonist Ants” Arthropoid Xenophile Militarist Spiritualist Dragon Origin Megacorporation Already performing well in a rather peaceful first galaxy, these survived until the end when the Zark took out the whole gal