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[Orange Wizard]

Traits are in dire need of expansion, definitely

[Majestic7]

Fanatic materialism implies the will to do anything for !!Science!! doesn't it? So I think that will do fine, just need some minor trait to balance it out. Perhaps collectivism or militarism.

[Orange Wizard]

In other news, droid pops are treated like pre-sentient natives in the 1.2 beta. So you can't move them or build on their tiles, and purging them causes your other pops to get all riled up.

[Majestic7]

Yeah and they trigger pre-sentient events which is kind of funny when your mad scientists start doing Mengele science on your droids.

[ZeroGravitas]

In other news, droid pops are treated like pre-sentient natives in the 1.2 beta. So you can't move them or build on their tiles, and purging them causes your other pops to get all riled up.

1.2 just officially released. They claim this bug is fixed.

[Orange Wizard]

The local molerat people decided to attack my glorious xenophilic spiritual empire. They never stood a chance, of course, but I forgot to set war goals and now I'm stuck with 100% warscore and nothing to spend it on. I suppose I could let them go free, but then I can't assimilate them until the truce times out.

[PTTG??]

I really hate the fact that wargoals use the same system for everyone. Maybe a democracy needs to maintain a transition of power, sure. But a despotic, militarist xenophobic empire can't go from a defensive to offensive war?

[jocan2003]

The local molerat people decided to attack my glorious xenophilic spiritual empire. They never stood a chance, of course, but I forgot to set war goals and now I'm stuck with 100% warscore and nothing to spend it on. I suppose I could let them go free, but then I can't assimilate them until the truce times out.

If i remember correctly, in the warscore there is a bottom tab where you can switch wargoal on defensive war, i might be wrong, i think i saw arumba once use that when defending or i may be completly wrong.

[Karnewarrior]

I really hate the fact that wargoals use the same system for everyone. Maybe a democracy needs to maintain a transition of power, sure. But a despotic, militarist xenophobic empire can't go from a defensive to offensive war?

This. There needs to be more differentiation by ethic and Government. Honestly, at the tech levels observed, the physiology of the species in question probably wouldn't matter nearly as much as the government they chose for themselves or the ethics that government espouses.

...Can pops revolt? I have yet to feel even the slightest hint of revolution from any of mine, through multiple playthroughs.

[Baffler]

...Can pops revolt? I have yet to feel even the slightest hint of revolution from any of mine, through multiple playthroughs.

You generally have to bait them into it, unfortunately.

[Mini]

I've definitely had pops revolt when they've been recently conquered and want independence, but never outside of that and those aren't particularly difficult to deal with as long as you pay attention and don't lose everything in a new war.

[PTTG??]

Pop revolts make the most sense in large empires with few external enemies. Well-designed, a civil war could be a superb end-game crisis, where psionic warriors clash in the corridors of planet-destroying battlestations and sentient robots toil alongside enslaved alien races.... but that's fringe science-fiction, it might not be popular enough to implement in stellaris.

[RadtheCad]

There just isn't enough weird stuff in the game.  It all feels so vanilla- none of the different races matter, they're all near-identical mechanically anyway;  there's none of the cool weird stuff you get in space IRL either, and definitely none of the fun stuff in Sci-fi.  There's no Von Neumann drones eating your asteroid belts, or rogue planets, or world ships, or matrioshka brains, or turning your people into robots, or even binary stars.  You can only move between systems with boring old ships that are basically boats anyway.  If you could just reskin it and it would be fine as an ocean game with different islands instead of planets, what's the point of making it a space game?

[Zangi]

DLC, wait a few years.  Get Hype.

[PTTG??]

Yeah, Paradox doesn't release games, they put them onto public alpha.