Yeah I was about to say lmao. Last time I watched a Montu list was a while back and I remember Aptitude being much higher and here we are starting off with it as the corpse in the ditch LOL
aptitude is still very good. it's no longer possible to completely block any chance of negative leader traits, so aptitude and harmony are even more important for my build than they were before
And mind you that change happened even with no significant changes being made to Statecraft. Aptitude got nerfed into oblivion, specifically its agenda, and now that Statecraft is one of the only solid sources of FLAT leader XP you can find in the game, it's skyrocketed up high. I'd put Statecraft even higher since there's a kind of obvious boost to it Montu didn't mention, but you can actually freely switch your councilors whenever you want. It costs you nothing and you can do it infinitely. You can't change the actual councilor position, but you can change the person performing it... So, just before launching an agenda, you just swap out your lvl 10 councilors to other normal non-councilor leaders and let them suckle on that agenda launch boost, then immediately put your councilors back into the council.
@@schwingedeshaehers Trust me, I am well familiar with how gestalt machines are. :D We're still completely screwed on unity unless we have biological pets.
They really need to rework genetic ascension. Add more trait points, crazy/esoteric traits like those on machine's modularity (some trait that adds a dark matter gland to your brainstem, so you do more research, or a trait that halts the aging process to make leaders immortal, for example), not just having Euridite, but special traits for each leader class REGARDLESS of the actual traits you slap on a species. I shouldn't have to care if a leader came from a subspecies that's tailor made for mining, he's a commander, so have him specifically modified to be better at fleet combat and ground invasions; like clone soldiers get (obviously not as good as their traits, and maybe buff them to compensate). It shouldn’t matter what species an official comes from, have him modified to be better at governing. In fact, the whole thing with a trait to make pops modify themselves for their job should be replicated on leaders for genetic ascension. If I put a governor as a representative of the galatic community, have him undergo gene therapy to make him better at being a diplomat at the expense of governing skill, and switch it back if I change it back. Do the same if I switch an admiral to a general role, and vice versa. Genetic ascension should have its strengths in flexibility, and stuff like my suggestions would really play into that theme.
Genetic is still my go to tradition because it's easy to get early, and the moment you click the tradition you immediately get cloning vats and thus organic pop growth. You start getting major benefits from it immediately, whereas all other ascensions take a while to get going.
They probably will seeing as how machines got expanded and how much lore was tied together and expanded on we can probably expect psyonics and bio ascensions to get expanded in the next seasons.
I would personally entirely rework how genetic modification operates, in terms of gameplay and research. I'd make it so that, with base genetic modification, you could only switch in/out traits that belonged to species within your empire, or which you could access through migration treaties. In order to gene mod freely, you'd need to go for Genetic Ascension. But even then you'd have to research sets of traits individually, similar to the planetary blocker techs. For instance, if you researched "Age Traits", you'd be able to freely add or remove Fleeting, Enduring and Venerable. But you'd need to research "Breeding Traits" before you could add or remove Fast Breeders or Slow Breeders. But in the later stages you'd be able to research all the Overtuned traits, and also a bunch of wacky "Advanced" traits. Like "Killing Machine", which would give a pop +500% Army Damage, at the cost of making them unable to perform any job besides Soldier (or Duelist). As you've optimized the pop for violence, and nothing else. Or "Living Art", that reduces all job output, except for Amenities which it boosts. As you've modified a pop in a way that looks cool, but is impractical for most kinds of labour. Or "Scratch-Built", a free trait given whenever you created a species from scratch, that gave a free +3 trait points. Because your genetic engineers were able to optimise out a lot of genetic inefficiencies that normally arise in naturally-evolved species.
Really need a genetic/bio focused DLC... rework the ascension, new biotech weapons, living ships, the ability to have machine species gain biological bodies and biologically ascend...lot of potential here
Honestly, Psionics is still powerful with teachers of the shroud, but now that synthetics and cybernetics have their own teachers style origin, genetics really needs their own as well and a needed boost to it.
Genetics needs better management ultimately. With the buffs genetics gives, coupled with being able to just use those buffs in tandem with cybernetic and psionic bonuses you inherent (whether by immigration or buying slaves) you can create some absurdly overpowered pops then begin just cloning new ones as you need. To buff genetics they need to add the ability to restrict certain species from certain roles and promote other ones. Currently you could tailor-craft a "leader" species, but if the RNG doesn't roll one of them, then it's a waste, these can easily be remedied by setting leadership positions off-limits to certain ones (you can already sort of do this, but I mean even within the same species). Plus even though the AI isn't the worst with job assignment (due to how jobs and traits are weighted) it would be nice if you could, in the empire pop menu, set jobs to pursue and ones to avoid. Those things all fit within the theme of a genetically engineered society. As for events and such to flesh it out, maybe seeking out new DNA to use or something? Sort of how you can get a dragonscales (or whatever it's called) trait when you kill the leviathan, but from events. I micro-managed a game once and the genetic pops I made, make the other ascension pops look like a joke. The problem is the management is hell and unviable unless you don't mind playing mega-slow, and also clone vats themselves don't give bonuses like the other buildings do, but I think that's fair enough considering genetically engineered pops are better than psionic or cyborg ones. Genetics has a lot of potential, it's held back more by game mechanics than the bonuses themselves. Genetics needs the following... -The ability to designate species for leaders, that the leader pool must pick from. -The ability to control which jobs pops will go towards/stay away from. -Nerve Stapled trait needs to be reworked or split in to two traits (One suited for dystopian empires, the current one, and another suited for utopian ones that lacks/modifies the happiness negation) -Some sort of assimilation-like citizen right to convert any new ones you get in to the genetic template you make, rather than doing special projects 100 times.
Unyielding is much higher, possibly S Tier if you are a Machine Intelligence with the Astro-mining Drones Civic. Each starbase can have 6 Astro-Mining Bays and an Astro-Mining Hub, for a total of +150% Mining Station output, with the Bays also giving the same energy as Solar Panels. Because your base resource economy is almost entirely centred on starbases, the extra capacity, reduced upkeep and upgrade cost and increased upgrade speed are all very valuable bonuses
Maybe I'm playing wrong but Astromining isn't great unless you can snowball into getting vassals to take care of your basic minerals. You'll hit a wall as your starbase constructions can't keep up with your massive alloy factories and then you just have really bad menial drones.
Even without Astro mining drones, Astral studies network resolution provides 100% solar panel output, and you can pick catalytic processing for 33% more alloys base and popless food production, freeing up a lot of minerals.
@@ohgodwhyamiintheyoutubecom6149 Works great with Arc Welders origin. Multiple powered-up Arc Furnaces will take you easily to the point where Matter Decompressor comes online, and with your ridiculous alloy income, it's trivial to snag a vassal which then gets converted into a Prospectorium.
@@ohgodwhyamiintheyoutubecom6149 Arc Furnaces fix that issue quite nicely, the deposits from which get an additional 150% yield from this. You should also be reducing the upkeep of your foundry drones via planetary ascension anyway
I really wish there was some kind of an egalitarian ascension tradition where pops in your empire can take whatever they want without being forced to be machines, genetically modified, psionically awakened etc. I realize how hard that would be to balance but since I main egalitarian empires I find it weird to go “alright time to upload everyone to the cloud whether they want it or not!” In fact ascension traditions are such game changers and so powerful they’re almost necessary or strongly recommended. They should be separated from traditions and be their own thing in my opinion.
Egalitarian societies are still subject to social pressures and cultural inertia, which is what traditions/ascensions seem to represent. The timetable they occur on is nonsense, of course. Societies don’t pivot on a dime. But that’s true for Stellaris in general.
There is a civic that not allows you to pick any ascension path, but gives +2 species traits and points, as well as some other bonuses, it's called Natural design
I've always envisioned something like an infrastructural/solarpunk ascension. So rather than your pops being forced to change, you just make your buildings, districts and empire life more efficient. Increased recycling so each pop produces some of the consumer goods it consumes (produces cos it's nice to get numbers rather than just reduce them). Total solar conversion so each point of housing generates energy, that kinda thing.
@@MontuPlaysehh I don't know simply because of the synergy with overturned and I think Genetic Ascension by itself has better pop growth speed that gives it a sleight edge
Never bothered with it, short of one play test. It's just kinda lame. U basically adding more buffs to species, at the cost of far more exciting thing to do. Personally, I'm Perma stuck with Slaenesh ascension path.. what's her name in Stellaris, instrument of desire? Don't remb. Basically space magic, and the fact what you can combine it with galactic wonders, and now cosmogenesis... It's perfection. I strongly suggest you start as fanatic authoritarian and materialist, to get AI tech and Neuron sweep planet cracker, and only then switch to spiritual. It's always a rather long game, but it's filled with fun things to do, everytime. Also robots, are now crazy good, with cosmogenesis and virtuality.. albeit it's a much shorter game, basically science victory, and gets you into less fun gameplay loops then my favorite combination. Its not what it needs a rework per say. It does what it needs to do.. modify species. But it's just not terribly exciting to take, because it combines poorly with other things you could do instead. There needs to be a brand new tradition or game mechanic what compliments the existing system, not necessarily change in that system itself.
Day 25 of asking for a Renowned and legendary paragons tier list! Also I haven’t seen this tier list yet but genetics feel REALLY BAD right now. Left in the gutter tbh Edit: oh shit I seem to have been validated. I thought I was just playing my empire poorly. Buff genetics pls
Virtual + Mercantile do feel a bit like a cheatcode. As you automatically fill all jobs, you will have clerks everywhere, and Virtual gives +1% output on everything per clerk. My Virtual Empire Ecunumopolis feels like it alone is more powerful than entire sectors in other games.
Especially on trade rings. The virtual tradition gives even more clerks on habitation districts. So if you have all 3 or all 4 ring sections you can ignore the -50% ressources from jobs because the clerks give like an additional 100%
@Adidas_der_schwanger_war I will be unstoppable, they can't stop me, I'll have enough unity to have the megastructure ambition on-to build more rings, I could have a force ring as well, it's all so powerful, I'd even go as far as to say that psychic isn't the most powerful Ascension path anymore, not even close
How do you kake virtual work? No matter what I try it just seem to completly nuke my economy. Like are you supoose to just have 4 planets with that tradition?
You know, I find it amusing to watch your tier lists and see something I take really frequently (like in this case, Politics) down in the F-Tier while something you seem to adore up in S-Tier (in this case, Enmity) is something I literally never use, it's like you're *reading my mind* and getting the signals reversed lol. In this case, it's generally because I'm decent _enough_ at the game that, unless I'm playing on Grand Admiral with scaling on, I have a hard time being able to Rival any Empires because either their Economy or their Military is Pathetic compared to mine - and if you don't have any Rivals, Enmity literally only gives you a Diplo Weight bonus when _opposing_ Resolutions, which is something I rarely find being a problem (since, between Politics giving me a bunch of useful buffs and my generally-OP Empire anyway, my Diplo Weight is _already_ the deciding factor if something passes or not - or even ever makes it to the Senate floor). So in the vast majority of my use cases, Enmity is literally the worst Tradition in the game because it does _absolutely nothing_ for me 99% of the time. Meanwhile, the Influence cost reductions for both proposing and vetoing Resolutions is pretty handy (especially with Gigastructures where some Megastructures require Influence, and can get quite costly in the later game when also dealing with GalCom), the Veto and Emergency Measure cooldown reductions are _clutch_ for controlling what gets onto the Senate floor and when... and then, once I've got the policies I want in place, I can just support _any_ Resolution, let it pass, and coast on the +25% Diplo Weight buff from Gravitas _forever_ to make sure whatever I don't want passed doesn't. And if something gets too close to the Senate floor without my approval? Veto! Because I can do that faster than any other Empire.
psionics easy S tier for me, the psy space drive is so good, plus all the bonuses you get, immortal and op leaders and all that, and also the better shields too
It's still the best hands down yea. Pretty sure Montu was paid by paradox for this one tbh. Nano is the best overall of the new ones, and it already needs buffed. It's an ascension perk and a tradition, but is weaker then the very similar in build ( as they both involve wiping everything out) crisis perk... Which doesn't need a tradition. Like.. Psy is also both but is more then double power of anything the bots get
@@dj_koen1265 not really If your LUCKY it's decent. If your incredibly good at planning it can be powerful, but. It's honestly weaker then nano or Psy, which are the best. I've played nano with a friend now, it's.... Not horrible but against anything but a player or multiple 20+crisis types/fleets it's plenty. Virtual has nothing different or cool it adds, and can't contend with the production that having a normal bio OR machine race can... Like the virtual empire had technically 600 pops, depending a smidge on colonies and need. Meanwhile a toxic god start psionic bio race had over 2k. That's... Not even counting having more then double the systems. The thing virtual is best at is diplomacy, and even there it loses, tho if you get it early it will have the earlier way to run it. Ultimately it's truly no different then inward perfection, it WOULD be cool... If you could remove it later. But it's just another sad attempt to make "building tall" actually work, which it never will. Except of course, in single player.
@@TruthHunterTeen im willing to believe you have a point but virtuality is starting to get banned in most mp games at an increasing rate, im sure that means something
Recently come across your channel a few weeks ago and love every detail information and build video you do. Keep up the good work. Secret word: Psychic
I like psionic and cybernetic because they don't take much thinking about. Everyone gets a bonus and that's about all you have to manage. No fiddling with what pops have what traits or anything like that. Idk about enmity being so good though. It drops off after a point because you often aren't actually in a position to have that many rivals. The theoretical bonuses are good but how often does it actually work out?
I wish you'd made a mention of how straight busted Driven Assimilator cybernetic ascension is - I've played an "all machine" game a couple days ago with some friends, and I rapidly outpaced both Virtuality empires. Admittedly I was also the best economics player (except one girl who got shit luck) and It's probably still worse if you get a virtuality ringworld/ecu combo with the right civics et cetera, but that's much harder to do than just "grab big world. designate as gestation world. Now Virtuality is not the only AP to get free pops."
I think Aptitude is pretty acceptable if you have Under One Rule since you'll have your leaders for much longer. I also think expansion should be F, since you almost always want discovery first and after the firts ascension its not worth getting. I like genetic ascension, you can have pop assembly without making robots and going materialist. Genetic is there to give you options, which is always a good thing.
I have gotten into a desperate explorers game recently and I was struck with how much I was hopping from tradition to tradition in the early game. From Discovery for faster surveying, to Expansion for faster colonies, Prosperity for quicker build speed to get my evacuees working sooner and even Adaptability for that nice +10% habitability. It all added to the sense of unease and urgency as I struggled to get my people to safety. This is ofcourse delaying my glorious psychic ascension but it will come. Soon.
I have seen a lot of evil Sith-inspired empire playthroughs out there on RU-vid, but I think it would be neat to see a Jedi themed race playthrough. Maybe they pursue psionic ascension as quick as possible and then either form a federation and work for peaceful relations, or in a more hostile galaxy they play defensive and really maximize all forms of turtling to show that aspect of the game off? Psionic Ascension, new Harmony, etc. would be fun to see in action.
Ya, i don't feel like genetics should be that low. As you ignored one Key factor. You can min max your pops better as this is the only accession that allows you to add or remove traits. You also cannot fully utilize the hydro accession path without it. As you cannot add aquatic with any other path. And considering anglers/ catalistic technicians are arguably one of the best trade paths you can go. it seems weird just to denounce that as the worst path. When its the only one you can use to Min max your pops. As with every other ascension you are stuck with whatever random traits they decided to take.
Currently running as a determined exterminator with nanotech. Infinite planets, massive uncapped nanite production and instant defense fleets in emergencies. You dont need to be PSYCHIC to see that it's the ideal ascension to exterminate all the fleshies. Paired with the new crisis path, it's disgustingly powerful.
I'm rather new to Stellaris, but wouldn't exterminator + virtual be even more broken? You conquer planets, wipe out the population and instantly fill in all the jobs? Or does nanite works better long term?
@oumajgad6805 Virtual has huge penalties after around six colonies. Nanotech gains power the wider you get. Determined exterminator play has to paint the whole map. Nanites get stronger the more colonies are subsumed. All bio pops to the Lathe for research.
@@nathanhunt9526virtuality is all about playing tall. It doesn't fit that well with cosmogenisis. Nanotech is definitely absurdly strong, straight up S tier. All 5 years +2k nanit ships (or more with enough star bases) can get you easily to 16k ships. That all with hangars and you won't ask the galactic community for anything, you can just do it.
@AMPS1 it was fun playing wide as a nanite form exterminator. Playing tall with virtual worked well for cosmogenesis though. Tight borders fallen empire ships and a short trip for the needle picking up my colonies. I won that easily. Topped out at six colonies including the Lathe. Found a pre-FTL shattered ring origin and conquered it. Used research rings to fly through the tech trees. Virtual is brokenly powerful on rings.
Give Genetics the superpower of making somewhat-customisable giant space fauna, simlar to how the crisis paths (and technically Nano-Swarmers) give you extra ship types. Home-made Bubbles.
They really need to change a lot of the unith boosts to percentages too. Embassies giving +3 is pretty meh at the best of times but a +1% could be quite useful
1:20 I pick Aptitude as my 2nd tradition, just because of the -1 negative trait chance and +1 extra starting trait. Which also goes Harmony with it's -1 negative trait...
I understood really quickly that all DLC stuff was going to be overpowered, the fact that they nerf stuff later is borderline a scam. LoL does the same but LoL is free.
I just started playing, coming off of a civ 6 binge, and both of these games really need to up their spy games. I love the cloak and dagger stuff, and when i learned that codebreaking helps with first contact I was stoked for subterfuge, but the ceiling is so low for the investment. Let me spend 100 intel to steal a system or something impactful! Let me sabotage enemy hyperlanes and jump drives to strand fleets and give me the sneak attack benefits I would associate with a stealth oriented build.
Psychic Telepaths are cool but there is one play-style that makes Synchronicity, Domination, and Statecraft S Tier and that is -100% Empire Size From Pops as Gestalt Builds. With Virtuality you can have pops that build instantly, become immortal, don't need housing, and don't contribute to Empire Size. Paradox is surely going to nerf this. -10% Empire Pop Size (Domination) -15% Empire Pop Size (Synchronicity) -05% Empire Pop Size (Statecraft) -15% Empire Pop Size (Virtuality) -20% Empire Pop Size (OTA Updates) [Gestalt Civic] -03% Empire Pop Size Per Ruler Level (Gestalt) [-30% Level 10] -10% Empire Pop Size Streamlined Protocols (Gestalt Trait) -10% Empire Pop Size (Balance in the Middle) [Greater Good Resolution in the Galactic Community]
BTW I'm not sure if statecraft stacks additively with these bonuses. Also streamlined protocols is multiplicative with empire size from pops reductions rather than additive.
@@ma3dhr0s44 You take Streamlined Off once you get Balance in the Middle. Statecraft has the 5% but mostly it buffs your Ruler up to level 10 really fast by granting XP when Council Agendas launch.
Personally, I think Psionic ascension is the best-designed because of the Shroud mechanics it gives access to. It seems to me that all other ascension paths ultimately just give you flat bonuses or the ability to bypass some mechanics (looking at you, Virtual).
A good start on how to fix bio ascension is to give you the ability to assimilate pops into a template instead of having to constantly run projects to change every single new pop.
You don't have to do that when you start the project to modify change overall pop growth to new template. Once it's finished it will replace the original in the species screen.
@@andrewsanderson8566 that is how it works now. The problem with that is that when new members of that species enter your borders you have to do it again.
I'd love to have an ascension path mixing a bit of genetic, psionic and cybernetic. It's quite hard to reproduce that kind of typical sci-fi empire (Starcraft?) where there's a bit of all these studied and developed by some human chads that are just touching the surface of their domains...
I really love psionic ascencion - it is my favourite since I really like playing as psychic overlord and it's easy to become Psionic Galactic Emperor :)
Unless nerfed into the ground, Supremacy will ALWAYS be god-tier simply by virtue of how all-around useful its focus is. Conquest is the backbone of mid-game expansion, it helps cow neighbors into vassalage, it's an easy way to up your diplomatic weight, and anyone with a weak fleet is bound to get clobbered when the crises show up.
Oh god I'm picking the wrong trees 😜 not sure Emnity is my play style but I'll pay more attention to the others. Thanks for warning me about Aptitude, I used to take that a lot!
As always waiting as I go. Politics is solid c. Subterfuge is actually very powerful if you spy correctly, it's a. Probs is a, it stacks with harmony to be godly and alone is worth it. Psy is STILL S tier, the techs you get from it are best in game, and bio is better then machine at almost everything, I have never failed to outperform my not loving friend in all categories without even trying. That's... Without even specifically going and building for Psy. I actually say nano is b at BEST... Some of it honestly needs buffed, the ship is effectively worthless. And ludicrously expensive... Montu you alright? Adapt is ALSO a b. Supremacy is a, with reasons to be a b. Looking back slightly, exploration is actually s tier and almost always my first pick. I... NEVER use enmity, because I only briefly have rivals, wether I'm warmonger or not it's always going to be us outgrowing the AI very fast, so the rival parts si play don't work, and make it less useful overall... Might be a if you don't build well? Otherwise it's a at best. Virtual is a if you only want to build tall, but is actually really bad for anything else, as having even 12 colonies at 10 or so pops will have more resources and everything else then a virtual can manage, again if you actually build correctly. First time I've had to disagree this much Montu, your slipping bad. Bots are now actually playable, but hardly a match for a Bio empire that stacks bonuses. I've already played three long games with a bot, psionic and a megacorp. The Telepathic was hands down the highest in resource output, research, and was better at either side of diplomacy. Megacorp as always was a decent time, very reliant on not getting bad rng for the other civs and actually being able to use the branch offices, but once I got a game that didn't have 27 assorted angry woodchucks out of thirty, went very well, and almost outdid the pay with funny Enough, biomodding. Yea. The one that you dissed. It's incredible if used correctly, I think megacorp or pacifist runs are best for it. Finally I ran virtual longer then I did nano, and both went until 4500. Virtual came out ahead in some regards, but had massive resource issues, and shortages that made it impossible to play if you have high difficulty and high aggression... There was no way to keep up with the numbers any normal empire is capable of throwing out, let alone either crisis path. Nano I would say is better overall, I only went further with virtual to make sure it fell off like I thought, as it actually gets resources to work with, and can keep overall better tech in SOME regards than bio or virtual... The nanites parts for ships (except the useless auto cannon) are actually affordable and useful, unlike any other empires. However again, it's single ship is far to expensive, and worse in every regard other than firepower then a base Corvette. If it was cheaper, by a mass amount it would be better, but 500 nanites to build ONE... Upkeep or no is far worse then the resources to build ten corvettes that will last longer, and dish out far more firepower.... A single missile or plasma/laser/disrupter Corvette is a match for 8 swarmers, and cheaper then them to. If you have psionic tech? The shields with hardening to cover for pierce spam (which ai doesn't usually do) will allow a single Corvette to obliterate 20 equivalent swarmers, and virtual has absolutely nothing better... So they lose even worse. I honestly hate saying this, but would you possibly actually look at something other then basic numbers? I've played enough to test and the machine ascensions are now possible, but worse then our Telepathic gods. God help us if the AI actually stacks Psy with rift and or Cosmo.... It goes through dam near anything then... Or it would if it could design ships lol
thanks montu for such incredible videos! you helped get me into stellaris and ive been loving this game for over a year now, i just wish psionic lizards were real :(
4:20 I would still pick genetic ascension just because Erudite has that sweet -1 negative trait. I really, REALLY hate getting negative traits on my carefully crafted leaders. XD
I really wish genetic and psionic had some love at the moment. Psionic used to be my go to ascension path because it was that good. Now it just feels kinda meh compared to cybernetic (especially with the cybernetic species) and synthetic. I just wish there were more special resource generating genetic traits or maybe some more traits that require rare resource upkeep like what synthetic has. Maybe even a very expensive trait that flat out makes your leaders immortal. I would also appreciate some magic inspired psionic traits that do stuff like increase governing ethics attraction, increase alloy and consumer good output, and of course some version of nerve stapled for your psionic -slaves- prisoners with jobs. I would also love to see some special advanced government types for genetic and a rework to the Chosen One event chain for advanced psionic government types.
I think, in my next stellaris run. I will make a playthrough with all F-tier traditions, civics, and species traits. Just to see how much suffering that would induce :P
you know i like that they continually put out new material for theyre games but it really sucks when they completely change the power of every single thing in the game with each dlc and you need to relearn the game each time... this tradition is s tier oh wait its f tier oh now its s tier again or wait now if you take it your screwed...30:35 the machine traditions are just so much better of course they are who would spend 30 bucks on a new dlc if they didnt have to to compete or use the good stuff lol its like the mmo's when a new dlc comes out you basically have to trade in all your epic legendary gear and get the cra**y looking green stuff from the new dlc or you die straight out thats why it sucks for us poor peeps who play paradox games every 3 months spend another 30 dollars or get bored with the game
While I think Genetic is a bit better than you, I do agree it's the weakest outside of Overtuned. I think Overtuned eats up a bunch of the potential design-space for it. I'm not sure what the solution is.
I always take Discovery and Expansion first, and use it to make a big, thin line of an empire, capturing nexus points and sealing off huge chunks of the galaxy by closing my borders before any other empire can get in there. My own private fifth of the galaxy, that no other empire can even think of expanding into until they have jump drives, and then they’re paying a premium on influence.
So I read this in the contacts page in the local newspaper: "Psychic wanted. Needs to know their stuff." No number or anything. I thought it was pretty funny.
Idk, if your really looking for a galactic community build the politics tree giving you those special resolutions can be useful. They can help to entrench you in the top spot and eventually become galactic emperor
In my first game with the new dlc I was wanting to try out Virtuality, but while doing the Synthetic Age decision where you choose between the three, I wasnt paying attention and accidentally went for Nanotech... A few in-game years later, I was dominating everyone in the galaxy with Nanite Swarmers. I added the Nanite Harvester starbase building to a system with an Arc Mining facility in, meaning that one system alone wasnt just producing dozens of alloys and minerals, but also nanites from every single asteroid and celestial bodies. Honestly it is the most fun I have had in this game since I did one of my psionic campaigns
It's a shame there's not a Psychic automodding trait tbh. That'd be neat to pair with Overtuned for instance, especially since IIRC Overtuned can already do comedy by pairing its own Automod, the regular biological automod, and then the cybernetic/robotic automod.
erm, i take aptitude and domination in nearly every game and when i am a robot i take syncronicity alot... I also used to reallly like psionic ascension but recently i have been trying the new ones.
Psionic is sweet but to rip your shirt you'll have to meet synthetic, whilst messing with your head is cybernetic ❤ Hot but useless is genetic i am not that poetic (hope someone sees the references)
Montu has a constant stream of work updating videos that become irrelevant 2 months later. The struggle continues but we appreciate your efforts 💪. Looking forward ro this when I get home!
Alright Stellaris Machines/Cyborgs have been buffed to new heights and the powercreep is real we now need a buff/potential rework for Genetic Ascensions
It’s weird going from exclusively playing psionic to exclusively playing machines but I can’t help but be pulled in by how absurdly powerful the machine ascensions are, especially virtual. I wound up investing too much into raw resources in my first run as virtual and just stopped looking at my energy and minerals because it was impossible for me to spend them faster than I made them.
I really hope virtuality doesn't get nerfed into oblivion, just balanced. Also, my guess is genetic ascension update season 9. You heard it here first.
Federation formation should be removed from Diplomacy. There are work arounds to getting it. some means of improving two other empires would be nice. I expect Genetics/Synthetics to get a Custodian look at. Even then Genetic may get a big split like the new trio of machine types
Montu, subterfuge you understood wrong. Its my number two must yave tradition after discovery. Cloaking Montu. Psionic Cloaking with favor from one of the Shroud Gods (hint) who adds even more cloaking. If you playing a radical isolationist, or some version of Romulan... Its a must have. Espionage is an afterthought. If you going for that, and early cloaking tech, its one of the most important traditions in the game, together with psionics.
