[Arkangilos]

Yeah go big or go home.


Because the wierd thign about Venus' orbit is not it's orbit aroudn the sun but it's orbit aroudn it's own axis, which gives it month long days and nights. Quite different from moving a planet to the other side of the solar system. Heck with shades and mirrors you could fix the issue without having to fix the orbit.


No it's not, you create some algae or bacteria that live in Venus' atmosphere and collect carbon and then falls to the ground to form carbon rich sediments when they die. Just like earth's sea algae collected our carbon and locked most of it away in limestone.


Mars is clearly worse, there is no way to fix the fact that mars has only 38% of earth's gravity. You would need a planet wide artificial gravity field to make mars habitable. Meanwhile Venus has 90% of Earth's gravity meaning that while settlers would still probably have to due some high gravity training when going from Venus to earth they could still survive the process.
And of course it has since people keep rehashing the same stupid ideas because they are classics rather than looking at the evidence and coming up with new ideas.


Yeah it does, cyborg invokes the picture of things like the borg or the frankenstein's monster like things in command and conquer.
Yeah I get that it originally was just an abbreviation for Cybernetic organism. Heck I wouldn't mind so much if people actually pronounced it Cyb-org rahter than cy-borg. Why not just use Cybernetic organism then?

Cyborg doesn't have negative connotations where I live (which is often considered the backwards Bible Belt of America). In fact, Augmented usually means genetically augmented (at least that's what my friends and I tend to think) which has a far worse connotation.

Cyborg gives the impression of advanced prosthetics, where as Genemodding is general seen as "playing god".

So yeah, I don't see the problem with cyborg.

Plus, C3PO was human *cyborg* relations.

 

[Seon]

Its a shame that we apparently aren't getting more synthetic and robotic portraits.

Will there be a portrait pack to remedy this in the future?

 

[Dunbal]

Shut up and take my money!

The Time of Titans is coming again and all you Hrethgir won't know what hit you.http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Time_of_Titans

 

[Dakka]

including the ability to terraform Mars.

Looks like I will finally be able to do my AdMech Empire!!!

 

[moglus]

Its a shame that we apparently aren't getting more synthetic and robotic portraits.

Will there be a portrait pack to remedy this in the future?

Unless you've heard something i haven't that's not confirmed yet. Wiz did say he wanted to make a dev diary about "art" for Banks/Utopia if i remember correctly. And every major expansion for a PDS game i can remember (all the way back to victoria 2) has been accompanied by cosmetic DLC. But i did also hear a rumor that wiz wanted to put all the content in one DLC for stellaris (probably to avoid an intimidatingly long DLC list like CK2 and EU4 has on steam, since it's been known to scare of potential buyers of the game.) But if that turns out to be true there's gonna be some salty people on the forums, they've tried that before and certain fans where NOT happy with it. (I don't care either way, i'm a dumb fangirl who buys pretty much every paradox DLC that isn't an e-book )

 

[Rodu325]

I don't know if this has been asked before(if it was sorrry!) but if you transform all of your pops to synths and then conquer another empire, do their pops get transformed instantly or is it like purging?

 

[TheDungen]

Cyborg doesn't have negative connotations where I live (which is often considered the backwards Bible Belt of America). In fact, Augmented usually means genetically augmented (at least that's what my friends and I tend to think) which has a far worse connotation.

Cyborg gives the impression of advanced prosthetics, where as Genemodding is general seen as "playing god".

So yeah, I don't see the problem with cyborg.

Plus, C3PO was human *cyborg* relations.

Well if the bible belt hates on it it seems like a great idea too me. Jokes aside but that's the thing, a cyborg isn't necessarily augmented, but this is clearly about augmentation.

And C3PO is a bit of an odd case since there are no cyborgs in star wars... well aside from darth vader I guess.

 

[Cat_Fuzz]

I'd love these ascension paths if there are negative consequences (eg. spiritualist factions dislike synthetic asenscion and will secede if it's followed. Likewise xenophobic factions would rise ups gainer gene-modding etc.)

 

[Winterwolf00]

Question. Will forcible gene-modding or augmentation of conquered Pops be considered close to genocide as far as diplomatic relations go?
I still maintain that egalitarian empires shouldn't be so quick to force convert all their own people.
Making such things mandatory should be something restricted to authoritarian empires.

 

[Lothmar]

Hmm, if we transform our people to bots or gene mod them, do our armies transform accordingly during the project?
Or will we have army holdouts that we'll have to dismiss and then have to retrain said forces?

 

[Jean-Luc]

It is time.

 

[Untrustedlife]

Again, I really, really hope not all synthetic species will be the tried and tired same robot graphic.

Btw, I guess this was supposed to be reversed:

Misstyping?

No, you couldn't add negative and remove positive traits before.
So it isn't a mistype , this should be great.

Interesting. Has this solved the problem that when you modify your entire current population, any population which grows/is born after the modification is started are still the original species and is unmodded?

This has been fixed since the last patch.

 

[Arkangilos]

Well if the bible belt hates on it it seems like a great idea too me. Jokes aside but that's the thing, a cyborg isn't necessarily augmented, but this is clearly about augmentation.

And C3PO is a bit of an odd case since there are no cyborgs in star wars... well aside from darth vader I guess.

There are actually quite a bit of cyborgs. Lando's right hand man, the victims that that guy at the Cantina (who got his arm cut off) and his associate (the ugly guy). There are plenty others. Those are just the canon ones I can think of off the top of my head. Legends has even more.

 

[Foefaller]

Not sure what the upside is to Synth Ascension over just staying normal and building Synths where needed. At least add in some kind of energy efficiency boost of 5%, anything really.

Apparently, people have noticed on the livestreams that materialists now get a discount on robot maintenance.

Plus, Min-maxing with flesh and blood pops would take a lot of gene modding, something that only those with Biological Ascension could pull off, at it would still leave you with only being best at 1/3 of the science disciplines and 2nd best at energy collection, pull leaders that could still (in theory) die from old age.

 

[chrisjwmartin]

Interesting diary, but it saddens me that @Wiz is less and less involved on the forum. No answers at all? What did we all do wrong?

 

[henzington]

He is probably still asleep as he is in San Francisco.

 

[bronze Void poison]

Perhaps Synth Ascension could benefit from some techs that make you more masters of the materiel universe I do not know may be add some necron and borg inspired tech and nanomachine tech could help balancing? @Wiz

 

[Lothmar]

Perhaps Synth Ascension could benefit from some techs that make you more masters of the materiel universe I do not know may be add some necron and borg inspired tech and nanomachine tech could help balancing? @Wiz

i mean if hiveminds can force 'hive mind' trait upon pops in their territory, I dont see why Synth ascension empires cant 'upgrade' conquered/integrated groups.
*first hits empire with liberation war if they aren't Fanatic Materialist, then vassalizes, integrates and upgrades*

 

[GC13]

So I have to ask: was nerve stapling a thing in science fiction before Alpha Centauri? Because even in that game the idea of nerve stapling is poorly explained; on the one hand its helpful effects are very temporary, but at least one thing implies that its effects are permanent (at least on children).

 

[Untrustedlife]

@ most people asking questions, you guys are forgetting to add @Wiz to get Wiz's attention. Though he's doing the stream atm anyhow.

edit: The stream doesn't seem to be live atm, thought there would be a stream.

Wiz is at GDC this week.