I doubt that it has worked like this for several updates because Enlightening a species at Atomic Age or Early Space Age take almost no time at all and if they started at YOUR tech level, even if it was the one where you pressed the button, your empire has no time to advance nearly enough to create a meaningful difference in that small amount of time.
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I doubt that it has worked like this for several updates because Enlightening a species at Atomic Age or Early Space Age take almost no time at all and if they started at YOUR tech level, even if it was the one where you pressed the button, your empire has no time to advance nearly enough to create a meaningful difference in that small amount of time.
would still love it if it was a observer action, getting society points + food, avoiding tech malus for less food
But that's like the entirety of what makes the game interesting, having to deal with challenges both internal and external, political, economic and military.
Having your empire fall in line like drones and have no internal mechanics doesn't just deprive you from the feeling of ruling a living empire full of pops, but also makes the game super bland.
I want to have to deal with rebellions. Heck, i wanna have moments like in EUIV where i lost a civil war to a pretender to the throne who then actually ended up being a benefit by hauling my nation into a golden age. I want to see a seccessionist movement succeed and then have the two halves go through the following centuries swinging between bitter enemies and close allies. I want to see the leader of a pacifist federation topple to authoritarian despotism.
Give the politics and factions some real life y'know? It ain't about winning or losing, it's about experiencing the story if your empire, your galaxy.
from what i see, the best move is to make a 25 tile world and cap it with agrarian livestock slaves 
This really needs to be very well and clearly presented beforehand. Before clicking on "shift ethic" button, I want to know what are at the moment all the changes that it will trigger. It is rather simple to know what happens to the main ethic in question, but not the collateral damage due to 3 ethic points rule. And no, the information being available somewhere else does not count, it really needs to be there on the screen when I make the choice.
I'd love to see the ability to have your government overthrown by an uprising, and the option to continue playing as the newly formed empire.
Those percentages aren't the attraction. Attraction to the various ethics are +/- modifiers like other modifiers. The percentages is the amount of your total population expected to eventually follow a given ethic if no modifiers change. More info such as current percentages in tooltips.
That's how I remember it anyway. I think they talked about this and showed the UI in the first of new livestreams.
it'd be cool if leaders in your empire are also able to defect to a rebel faction. That 5 star Admiral sure would like to do some authoritarian restructuring around these parts.
Also, we would definitely be OK if you stole HoI4's mechanic of being able to send military to aid rebels/ other empires in foreign conflicts.
right now, every non-strategic resource is somehow available via space stations/space mines, except food. wild hunting on primitive planets would be the only obvious method i can come up with (that is not "food overriding minerals" on habitable plantes)
Precisely, this Hivemind ethics could be a placeholder of sorts the represent the lack of ethics of a pop, since it follows the Hivemind blindly and thus has no ideology.
The pops developping actual ethics and eventually losing this Hivemind ethics could represent the possible weakening and breaking of the bond between the pops and the Hive Queen / Brood Lord / whatever ruler leads the Hive, when they develop their own free-will.
So... do all armies have the same effect on unrest?
If so, garrison armies will have a use at last!
If so, garrison armies will have a use at last!
Does it matter at this point? The utopia DLC is already awesome enough to buy, I personally wouldn't notice the difference if they made it paid content, since I'm buying the DLC regardless.
All armies do have an effect, yes. @Wiz answered this in stream. Defensive armies are merely the cheapest (and therefore the most efficient) option. It was also mentioned that using slave armies to reduce slave unrest was probably a bad idea. Can't think of why that might be though...
Factions seems to me like a really cool feature, and a great foundation for future systems such as spyionage and more complex leaders. Perhaps they will interact with the yet to be revealed advanced goverments and new policy system?
I was gonna reference a space station and the orbital farms, but make an equivalent for 'Orbital hunters lodge' and the food joins the global pot *chuckle*
But then I realized that wouldn't make sense cause you'd have to conquer or colonize the planet... Unless you built one of those non colony/space station things above it~
Psychic armies should be 2nd or 3rd strongest army that you can train. But be the best at lowering unrest.All armies do have an effect, yes. @Wiz answered this in stream. Defensive armies are merely the cheapest (and therefore the most efficient) option. It was also mentioned that using slave armies to reduce slave unrest was probably a bad idea. Can't think of why that might be though...