Stellaris Crime Only Challenge 

Ya I want to like it but it's current implementation is terrible. Criminal jobs should basically act as clerks and crime on your own worlds should boost your trade not negatively affect it. Basically there should be no reason not to have crime lord deal on all my worlds.

Should be able to access some type of black market, and have unique piracy options.

Discounted Galactic Market Except your volumes are a bit random. You might have to buy 1000 minerals or 70 at this discounted rate. And the ability to buy some unique modifiers 'acquired' from their neighbor and investment. So purchasable buffs with temporary effects. Like a Science Cache, a Unity entertainment package, half processed Consumer goods, or scrap alloys from somewhere. Granting +x% per turn of resources till 200-10,000 of the resource is produced from a stolen stockpile. So your economy may bounce around erratically based on what's on offer every 5-10 years.

It's kind of a weird situation because if a criminal syndicate was the undisputed leader of a world, they wouldn't really be a criminal syndicate any more. It doesn't make much sense for any political entity that has overt undisputed sovereignty over its own territory to also be a "criminal". It just means that what is illegal in some other regimes is legal in it (drugs or what have you). Because of this, the only way you can really implement it is via flavor, with the empire otherwise acting like a non-criminal empire. So, that's why this is such a difficult thing to do I imagine.

@@JB-xl2jc well, the way I see it, a criminal syndicate that takes over the world would still need to maintain the veneer of a legitimate government. So there would still be legitimate laws, and crimes would still be crimes, its just that syndicated government officials would never be held accountable. For example, the US government's current *[redacted]* *[redacted]* Crisis under Joe *[redacted]* , and the illegal activity around *[redacted]* , and the Hunter *[redacted]* Laptop, and the *[redacted]* Scandal. There's also the *[redacted]* Reide Scandal, the Nancy *[redacted]* Insider Trading Scandal, and *[redacted]* Island; and thats not even getting into all the corporate lawsuits regarding child labour and human trafficking! There's metric TONS of illegal activity that supposedly legitimate goverments are engaged in all the time, its just nobody ever gets prosecuted, or of they do, it's a slap on the wrist like with Hunter *[redacted]* . So I think that for a Criminal Syndicate, there should be high crime rates that provide trade or energy or other resources. Maybe make it so that there are unique versions of buildings for crime syndicates, like the Sacrificial Temple or Chamber of Elevation. Like....maybe Crime Syndicate get a...Black Market Building, or can build Pirate Safe Havens and Illegal Research Facilities on their worlds, things like that.

and prolific slavers, but that's like, 90% of SW universe, everyone is. Close enough honestly, just call em criminal enough to lie about their homeplanet and everything else and it's canon enough.

Hutts like Jabba are not known for being agile. Hutt culture involves being so fat and decadent that you make everyone else do what you want for you. There is an example of a Hutt that doesn't do this and is actually terrifying (his name is Grakkus the Hutt). So while your statement of them being strong, tough, and agile might be true, most of the crime lord Hutts are too fat for that. They still have strength at least, though.

@@kamig2127 I said surprisingly agile for their size.

well, before they became crime lords they were a warrior empire and quite feared

@@kuhluhOG Indeed. That's basically how they became crime lords in the first place.

The hutt jedi He quickly became evil

Took him all of ten seconds to fall to the dark side, though...

@@giaxo1739exactly lmao

Did the hutt jedi jump of the walls and do flips while fighting with his laser sword?

What else do they have to break something? (Besides rolling over)

​@CashFreedman The reason jabba needed to swap out protocol droids so frequently cause he was to lazy to invest in stress balls

​@@jacobsheehan5775He graciously do that to support local droid merchant! Remember to buy from local source people (That include drugs too!)

They must be VERY vulnerable to being choked, otherwise Leia would havr just been dangled like a dolly and then probably eaten.

@@KopperNeoman It's because Jabba was lazy and spoiled even compared to other Hutts

Wouldn't be surprised if the Hutts turn into Meta Hutts

As all crimes should be

Found the "trusty brain dead" robot (montu's words not mine)

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I love this friendly banter between my Stellaris RU-vidr Collective

Clerks are the future

That build got massively nerfed in the last patch tho

Why doesn't this have a heart. Great point dude 😂

Wait, which of the four 'creatures' are we talking about? 🤣

@@MontuPlaysI’ve had a lot of different phases in my life

That's the neat thing, you don't!

@@MontuPlays Ha... Anyway, your ethics are exactly the ones I chose for my own Hutt Cartel empire.

If I recall correctly (please someone confirm) criminal branch offices can be only closed one per criminal megacorp empire PER GALAXY at a time, so if you spam a crappton of them all over galaxy, the chances of each individual one getting closed get very low.

@@lucjanl1262 This is also true. I think its one per 10 years (maybe 5)

@@MontuPlays thanks for confirming, I'm also glad that my explanation was accualy comprehensible for a human brain.

I have become the very thing I swore to destroy....

And now he’s telling everyone to use catelytic processing and to produce as much food as possible. It’s like we don’t even know him any more

And he says he loves clerks.

@@MontuPlays The next path in your evolution is, "Farming Clerks."

robots uprsisings are not fun

Beneath 5 inches of fat is solid wormy muscle.

@@jefferybrown6473 A lot more than five inches lol. At their adult stage they can weigh more than 1100 pounds lol.

Not according to the stats I saw today! I also thought about Space Liverpool but didn't think that would translate well (or be accurate enough)

​@@MontuPlaysBirmingham perhaps? From what i heard the place is a shithole

Im gonna try this because it made me giggle

SoonTM

That's... That's a good point. Oh crap