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[E. Albright]

So is playing as a slaver empire just volunteering yourself for micromanagement hell? I tried it for the first time properly and it seems like it just makes everything about population/job management significantly worse than normal.

[Dunamisdeos]

It has flaws for suresies but I still have lots of fun. Long as I have fun with it, I'm good.

[forsaken1111]

So is playing as a slaver empire just volunteering yourself for micromanagement hell? I tried it for the first time properly and it seems like it just makes everything about population/job management significantly worse than normal.

I do two things to reduce micromanagement in my current slaver game.

1. I turn some slave species into domestic servitude. This lessens their unhappiness and any 'unemployed' pops become servants which gives me free amenities.
2. I use a mod which moves unemployed pops to other planets with jobs. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1617534169

[Telgin]

A lot of people want automatic migration to planets with jobs to be a core feature of the game, and I definitely understand the appeal.  I'm guessing the developers haven't done it because you're supposed to pay energy to migrate pops, and automating that is dangerous.  No idea how the mod handles it.

[Shooer]

Just make it a government setting like how you use trade goods.  Set limits on immigration/emigration with each different setting having a different cost.  Different ethics dis/allow different choices.

[Paul]

The pop mechanics are kind of annoying. I would definitely turn to mods to make things less annoying. The worst thing is if you have a multicultural empire and it just randomly decides to replace ruler and specialist pops with workers of different species, sometimes multiple times, leaving extra unemployed pops that take years and years to finally demote to be useful. Sometimes it replaces people for no apparent reason. Like when I biomodded my race, they were all changed and all the same. Yet every single one of my planets had a bunch of unemployed ruler and specialist pops because the workers suddenly decided to replace them and promote themselves even though they were all equally suitable.

I don't really understand the gameplay reasons behind the years of unemployment to demote pops. It kind of makes logical sense for there to be a penalty for pops being demoted, but it just doesn't make for fun gameplay.

I tried that Stellaris Eternal mod, which has less micro due to fewer buildings and pops and instant migration, but it's still in alpha state and super unbalanced. If it eventually gets fixed up to the point of being a balanced experience it might be a fun alternative to vanilla Stellaris. Right now trade in general and megacorps are ridiculously overpowered in it heh.

[Iceblaster]

Unpopular opinion but I kinda liked the tile system of yore. Planets felt more unique and more consideration with adjacency effects. Would've liked if they tried to combine the two.

Anyways eh! Wonder how the star trek mod's gonna work with the new update.

[ventuswings]

The act of simply moving pops around in same level feels unnecessarily difficult. I don't know why I can just enter number for each jobs instead of juggling around plus and minuses.

[Paul]

So lithoids kind of suck. They grow super slow, can't use any growth traits, can't use the planetary decision that boosts growth, and can't use 3/5 of the biological ascension traits with no traits added to replace the removed ones.

But there is kind of a funny exploit when it comes to playing a lithoid and capturing regular pops (or having them migrate) - you can nerve staple them and then just keep them on as a lower class citizen and never actually feed any of them. The only penalty for no food is happiness and slower growth, but if you're just capturing the pops (with raiding or conquest) and nerve stapling them it doesn't really matter. You can gene mod species to be perfect for clerk jobs or extraction jobs and just scatter them through your planets to have completely free (if slaves) or nearly free (if residence subsistence) workers. You can even do it as a xenophile empire.

[Dunamisdeos]

We ArE aLL HaPPy HeRe.

[forsaken1111]

Yeah that is why one of my mods introduces severe penalties for running out of food. Pops in the lower society tiers start declining/dying off and food riots become more and more common the longer you are without food.

[Loud Whispers]

We ArE aLL HaPPy HeRe.

HhhaVE yOu taKEN yoourrr Joy?

[Telgin]

The galactic community Q&A thread posted today has some really interesting stuff in it: link.

This honestly looks like the most interesting part of the new DLC.  One concern I have is that in single player this is probably going to lead to a lot of alienation of the player empire, due to the opposing ethics generated by AI empires.  In my last game, something like 90% of the galaxy were spiritualists or even evangelizing zealots since I was a materialist.  I was playing inward perfectionists so I probably wouldn't have joined the galactic community anyway, but joining it would have probably been frustrating if it existed and I tried to join.

[Loud Whispers]

I get around opposing ethics by having a wide selection of my own custom factions forced into the game, that way I can get a more random shotgun blast of ethics

[forsaken1111]

I conquer neighbors and then release them as vassals or tributaries.