Alright, so playing recent game on 1.006: I managed to create a federation through the commie-monkeys after spamming moons, attitude buildings, and trade routes (after the moons) between Sylax/Pitians/Andors. Then, really all I had to do to get my already superior federation (military wise) to kill all the other races was just spam falsify conspiracy twice (-60 relation) for 3-6k credits on Sylax and Pitians, and watch as they brutally murdered/suicide-podded all the other races. I think that's a bit overpowered if you can just cause a solar-wide war for like.. 3k x 4 = 12k credits. (as a sidenote, how do you start a war otherwise? The political option to get the races to attack eachother is never available for me.)
Also, I tried to get the Evuck to join the federation by spamming "tax breaks" (to get their health down to -2000) like 50 times for 20-30k but then when I tried to make the decision all it did was give me 30 influence with them, they didn't join. I am not aware if this persists across other races.
