I think you mean rebel allianceI really love this part, balancing supporting your federation with getting elected, or dealing with an idiotic president who could ruin your federation would be very interesting. Reminds me of my first game of CK2, I had united Ireland as elective monarchy, then I lost the elections and the new leader attacked the much stronger England. It was a challenge
Maybe could a very strong president declare an empire, creating a civil war between the federalists and the imperials.
I envision you quickly becoming the emperor of nothing as your constant genocides wipe your population out.
Not with that attitude I won't, I'm not just mindlessly killing. Just the ones who don't pay taxes or misbehave, if they submit their future safety assured.
I hope that with the amount for randomness (random technologies, random races, random universe) - and a lot of interactions that should come after that - the amount of "optimal strategies" will be limited as you won't be able to get all pieces needed to set up an optimal strategy with certainty required for it to work in an estimated future. Instead people will work with what they have available, experimenting a lot, because the whole rest of the universe will be at work regardless of players' actions.
Henrik did say at the launch that it'll be some time in-game before borders actually reach other. by that stage you would think different civs would have developed in very different ways.
on the other hand they have a whole world of science fiction tropes (from star trek to x-files to anal probes), the clausewitz engine, and no doubt their desire to make something unique and memorable. i'm looking forward to it.
