Factions/Eni Et Ascendency

Eni Et are resource poor, but have the ability to make other players extremely rich. Recommended for experienced players who are skilled at reading others’ game state and seeing opportunity in it.

## Background

Eni Et are huge whale-like squids. Exotic ices form in their ocean-planet's depths, preventing access to most of the crust. As a result, Eni Et materials sciences never advanced much beyond the neolithic. Individual Eni Et are fanatically driven towards personal ideals, seeking to better their world in their own unique directions. Thirty millennia of coordinating such a population has given the Eni Et a deep understanding of sociology at all scales. Their economy is an interlocking network of charities. .pooling what little resources they have for the common good.

## The Confluence

The careful and efficient managing of resources has made the Eni Et gifted investors; and their desire to help the greater societies has led them to create interspecies charities. These have given the Eni Et an alternate route towards influencing galactic society - one they may need to rely on, if that society is to have a proper moral bedrock.

## Gameplay Information

Interest converters:

* The Eni Et cannot use them.
* Produces more of the same resources.

### Interest Converters

The Eni Et have cards with interest converters, most of which accept wild resources. Interest converters accept a number of resources of a single color and output more resources of the same color. This is an exception to the rule that wild resources need not match.

The Eni Et may not run their own interest converters, although they can upgrade the card. Upgraded interest converters follow the same rules as normal interest converters, although they might not produce more resources than those put in.

### Unity Wild Resources

Unity wild resources can be put into interest converters and they are not destroyed, but the converter cannot output additional wilds.

When running an interest converter with wild resources, slide those resources from the input to the output. Then, fill the remainder of the output with a single color matching the size of the wild resources. As input, wild resources can be mixed with other cubes of the same color and appropriate size. In this case, the remainder of the output must be filled with cubes that match that color.

## Advice

Look at the other players' economies and resources. If a player has enough resources to run one of your interest converters, try to trade it to them. If they have almost enough, see if you can make a three-way trade with someone else in order to get that player both the converter and the resources to run it. In general, you can loan converters for half of their net output.

Universal Applied Metaethics - a converter you start with - is one of the better point producing converters in the game. If octagons aren't too expensive in your game, try to run this frequently. Since the white resources it produces are donations, you'll need to trade with players to get them back.

If you allow a single player to use most of your converters every turn, that player will win. Try to spread the wealth around. The richer the whole game is, the better you will do.

In a game without the Eni Et, players who hoard resources between turns to save for invention have lost some of their economic potential. Your interest converters let players save resources while still making a profit on them. Furthermore, you may be able to convince players to delay invention for a turn and run a big interest converter instead - they'll be able to invent two: technologies later instead of one now, and you make yet more profit.

Interest converters can be upgraded to produce victory points, but those points can't be traded back to you. Delay those upgrades until the late game, when points are more valuable than resources and players can afford to trade for the use of your cards.

If you're having a hard time loaning your interest converters, see if you can get the resources needed for the input. You can't run the converter yourself, but it shouldn't cost more than a small cube to get someone else to do it for you.