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Is this a joke?
The only "alien" thing in stellaris for players, and it's paid?
That tech is more than twice as expensive as robotics. Powered exoskeletons costs 360. Robotics costs 600. Psionic theory costs 2200. They may change those numbers, but I doubt it.
You certainly can make that assumption, it even seems reasonable. I'll still object to stating that assumption as if it were confirmed.
Thank you for the reminder. I am well aware of that. But that doesn't mean anything. Both those techs are FAR more useful than psionic theory. Which only gives you psi warrior attachments and opening the door to psionic ascensions in the future. It is a useless tech as far as impacting your game. Building POPs and a flat +5% mineral output effects the game far more drastically. In addition to opening up the synth victory in the future. Moreover, you can go ENTIRE games without touching psionics. But you are guaranteed to waste time researching powered exoskeleton and robotics at some point in long games.
In addition, if I can make the civic start with 4 POPs with psychic trait that would be the actual worry in balancing. I have no clue what the psychic trait does to a POP (we know what it does to leaders). That will need further investigation.
A Mystics civic is purely roleplay compared to the huge quantifiable advantage mechanists start with.
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No fanatic purifier hive minds? In some way, it makes sense since they're not really fanatical, but on the other hand, a lot of the hive minds we get in science fiction tend to not be open to democracy, and would fit the purifier trait very well. I'd be interested in something similar to it for hive minds.
Will we ever see more complexity in setting up communication with aliens? We shouldn't know how they feel and what are their traits right away when meeting them. This would make unreasonable aliens and hive minds more interesting because you'd have to investigate to know about it. Right now,the diplomacy tend to be too easy to set up and with too many information from the start. Talking to aliens shouldn't be as easy as picking up a phone. At least at first.
Will we ever see more complexity in setting up communication with aliens? We shouldn't know how they feel and what are their traits right away when meeting them. This would make unreasonable aliens and hive minds more interesting because you'd have to investigate to know about it. Right now,the diplomacy tend to be too easy to set up and with too many information from the start. Talking to aliens shouldn't be as easy as picking up a phone. At least at first.
Hm, yeah, you're kinda right. My biggest issue is that I don't like when games get too gamey. Does there have to be a similar psionic thing for every cool robot thing? And vice versa of course. I like when games have the courage to just have different things just be different, where the same rules simply don't apply. Otherwise it feels too contrived.
It strikes me that you could provide this by way of three separate Authorities, eventually. The disadvantage remains in that you have to choose the Ascension path from the beginning (in race design), but the other two options definitely have cool SciFi pedigree. To go with "Hive Mind" you could have "Networked AI" and "Shared Consciousness", perhaps? They choose the Hive Mind ethic plus the appropriate Authority (that cannot be changed and sets the Ascension Path available). Add on specific civics and ways of "assimilating" POPs and you have the Borg and Arisians, maybe? A humble plea for future expansions...
In terms of balance it's a must. If you want to throw that out of the window then go ahead, but state that first. I don't think the devs have said that. There's a start the gives you a leg-up towards a victory condition. Is it so out of the ordinary to have an opposing start, that's optional and limited to spiritualists (like mechanists is limited to materialists). The more options there are the more configurations there'll be for the AI to pick from and less combinations in your games that you might have some objections to. I just want more options.
Interesting. I'm actually starting to get interested in the new government system.
However, I do have some questions if you don't mind me asking @Wiz .
1) Will we be getting new intros when we start a new game? Will they be different from each other?
2) I remember you mentioning that we wouldn't have factions when we start a game, but will get them as we expand and time passes. However, will we be able to know what faction our starting ruler will be part of, or is that random?
3) I know that I might be asking this too early, but will gene-warriors and xeno cavalry be part of the Biological Ascension path, or will they be researchable to all empires, even those who don't take the Biological Ascension Path?
4) Will there be more Ruler Titles since we have more government options?
Oh, it says that Psionic Theory is a requirement for Mind over Matter... wait, no it doesn't.
To be perfectly clear. I think it's very likely that Mind over Matter will require Psionic Theory, it makes perfect sense. But until that's stated and not inferred I'll stick by my objection.
If you don't want to buy the DLC, why bother following the dev diaries?
Just because it's unbalanced, doesn't mean I'm not going to mod it out ASAP. It's unsatisfying to be stuck with a civic that just sits there, taking up a slot. Perhaps give it a very small permanent bonus like +5% happiness on the capital or +5% research speed on robotics. Just so they're not permanent blanks.
Perhaps waging war against the empires which make genocide an end in their existence is a peaceful and friendly act towards one's own kind and for others. Including for the genocidal species itself which will remain preserved, and educated by assimilation.
Nobody is forcing you to pick it. Also why not mod in the +5% happiness instead of taking them out then?
By suggesting that a "head start" civic for each of the three endgame ascension paths (which have nothing to do with victory conditions AFAIK) is necessary for balance, you're implying that taking any one of such a civic would be necessary to be competitive. This is obviously false. You can go cybernetic without machinist just as easily as you can do psionics or engineered evolution without whatever civics you imagine might give you a "head start" in those.
Furthermore, can we stop pretending that machinist grants any sort of a head start in cybernetics ascension? Because the gate for ascension perks is... the ascension perk slot. Not the tech. If you can't manage to get psionic theory or droids by your 2nd ascension perk (in the stream, this was around the 2270s), then jeez.
Cheers for the DD Wiz, more very excellent improvements 
. Looking forward to playing them. Really like the potential for interactions between Authority type and population ethics. One of the benefits of a democratic polity is the potential to transfer power when underlying desires in a population change. With the ethics system for various factions, it looks like the game will model this pretty well (for a space 4X game, but I think that's appropriate ), creating potential tension points between the ethics of a ruler vs the ethics of a population. Very cool (to geeky old me )
. Looking forward to playing them. Really like the potential for interactions between Authority type and population ethics. One of the benefits of a democratic polity is the potential to transfer power when underlying desires in a population change. With the ethics system for various factions, it looks like the game will model this pretty well (for a space 4X game, but I think that's appropriate ), creating potential tension points between the ethics of a ruler vs the ethics of a population. Very cool (to geeky old me )