[PvK]

Originally posted by Dingocat85:

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Originally posted by PvK:
One reason to keep natives alive would be trade. If their production is inferior to yours, they can still receive trade income from full empires, which generates resources which wouldn't exist if they were wiped out.
PvK

But if you made them surrender, then you would control them entirely, get 100% of their resources, planets, etc. - It ought to be impossible to force Natives to surrender.

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I think you misunderstood me. Suppose the primitive produces only 5% of the resources that your empire does. If you conquer them, you will be up to 105%. If you give them a trade alliance, however, you will be up to 101% (after two years), while they will rise to 25%. THEN, you may be able to trade with them to get a good chunk of that 25%, for instance if you have a shortage of minerals but a surplus of orgs, you can trade them 101,000 orgs and get 100,000 mins, or something. Or, you could do intel attacks against them to steal their reserves. Or, you could gift them defense bases that you don't want to have to maintain, but they might... assuming of course you can get them to stay hostile to your enemies.

PvK