A hive mind doesn't have to conquer and eat people, it can also vassalize etc.
What ethics will an empire have if a hive has liberated it?
What ethics will an empire have if a hive has liberated it?
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Lots of cool stuff! I'm still a bit iffy on the fanatical purifiers being limited to militarist as their second ethic. I feel like spiritualists or authoritarians would also be able to qualify as fanatical purifiers, spiritualists especially.
As with EUIV, I get to play many different iterations of the very same game. Definitely not regretting buying Stellaris. Thumbs up!
Can we have fanatical purifier hive-minds i.e. Tyranids/mini-Prethoryns who are unable to engage in diplomacy?
Purge one-two planets and here you go, -1000 opinion from everyone and unable to engage in diplomacy.
What will the hive's ethics and ai personality be like.
I understand why the authoritarian/egalitarian ethics wouldnt make sense but its disapointing that we cant face a peaceful spiritual hive mind or a militant isolationist one, can you have a fanatic purifier hive mind?
Without ethics its not obvious how ai hive minds will behave, do they have a single new type of ai behaviour or randomly select some old one.
It would be disappointing if they are all zerg like exterminators.
I understand why the authoritarian/egalitarian ethics wouldnt make sense but its disapointing that we cant face a peaceful spiritual hive mind or a militant isolationist one, can you have a fanatic purifier hive mind?
Without ethics its not obvious how ai hive minds will behave, do they have a single new type of ai behaviour or randomly select some old one.
It would be disappointing if they are all zerg like exterminators.
Can materialist get a new building called "factory" that gives you +3 energy and reduces the time of construction of robots/droids/synthethics by 50% which means their growth time would be 1.5 on that planet instead of 1.0. This building would require planet administration.
Looks really great! It was about time that you made the empires more cusomizable. 
Good job!
But how long until we get a pure Robot-Civilisation? I would love to play as Borg or Geth (without using mods)
Good job!
But how long until we get a pure Robot-Civilisation? I would love to play as Borg or Geth (without using mods)
There are so many more things that could be done with Hive Mind, but it's understandable you can only fit so much into this DLC. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing a DLC focused just on hive minds that would add different types, from the benevolent to the Borg. I'd pay $5 - $10 depending on how much was in there.
I don't know about others, but this DD sealed the deal, I'm 100% going to buy Utopia. Man I feel like a little boy waiting for Christmas.
Can Hive Minds choose to displace pops instead of processing them? While certainly efficient, some hiveminds might prefer the more diplomatic approach of sending them off as refugees.
The Hive has no concept of good or evil, just following the nature of the Hive and its Master.
How do the hive minds still have slums on their homeworld? That doesn't make sense, does it?
I am beyond excited for this. Very cool stuff, that all in all seems to add lots of depth to the game.
