All give useful direct resources as well as a pretty big crime boost in and of themselves, because you still absolutely don't want crime to reach zero. If I remember correctly, buildings which give direct resource income aren't affected by the crime equation, so if you're having trouble keeping crime above 50 a great option is to use Underground Clubs, Syndicate Front Operations or Illicit Research Labs.

The aim of this guide is to give some insight and information to newcomers who are interested in expanding their Stellaris experience with some DLCs but aren't sure which ones are most suited to their playstyle. Nowadays, maintaining crime is less of a problem as the AI is less likely to turn into Judge Dredd as soon as it smells one of your branch offices and crime in general seems to have been tuned up a little, but it's still unreliable and your branch offices can be shut down if crime reaches zero. An in-depth description from a player perspective of all the DLCs currently available for Stellaris, sorted in order of importance. Once you're secure from being attacked, the rewards can be pretty giant as you can just systematically crime up the whole galaxy with impunity and there's very little reason not to do so. That's because expropriation is so devastating that you basically need to make it impossible to declare war on you, and by far the easiest and most reliable way to do that is to get allies. The biggest problem I find with criminal heritage, particularly on higher difficulties, is that counter-intuitively you actually have to be even more diplomatic than a normal megacorp.

So I think you've avoided the biggest trap with criminal heritage already by picking xenophile.

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