In my experience, it's a matter of balancing who you boost using FOCW and by how much. In my game it started relatively slowly (which is what I wanted) cause I gave literally everyone additional defense fleets, but now 4 days in, Xenons are starting to become a major thorn in backside. Not enough to flip the gate network yet, but enough for sectors bordering theirs to be quite unsafe for travel.Szynszyl wrote: ↑Sat, 9. Apr 22, 20:41In my game xenons are not a problem unfortunetly. On last save that was on 4.20 of the game almost whole galaxy belong to xenons. Now i want more ore less repeat that. How you have that strong xenons? I have 3 days of playing time and the borders have not moved one sector
They did wipe half of Hatikvah's Choice 1 out, and also sector north to Heretic's End was lost to them. Also sector just under Guiding Star, and the Split sector to the east of it both are under Xenon control. I forgot their names.
But do note - I play with numerous mods. This includes war balance, VRO and others.