3.11 beta build benchmarks

[Thirlan]

Just putting together a thread to see how others are doing with their empire builds in the new tech rebalance beta. Also curious to see after so many releases where the various meta builds are with relationship to each other.

I'll throw out some of my results so far and update this table as/if others posts their own results, which I will use as new high water marks. I will also keep adding as I keep trying different builds.

General notes:

1. Ranking is entirely fleet power
2. On the first day of 2230
3. There is a certain level of RNG here, so the more posts the better as we can get an average and standard deviations.
4. Research Speed is the bonus you get from things like Technological Ascendancy
5. Alloys is the alloys per month (not tracking stockpiled because this is a test run so you better use it all up)
6. Fleet Power is in the thousands, so 10 is 10,000

Build Name	Government	Traditions	Science	Research Speed	Emprise Size	Alloys	Fleet Power
Scion Tech Rush with scion fleet	Oligarchic Egalitarian Fanatic Materialist Meritocracy Technocracy Scion	Discovery (completed) Prosperity (2 in) Technological Ascendancy	232	97%	138	10	10
Determined Exterminator, second attempt	Machine Gestalt Determined Exterminators Rapid Replicators Resource Consolidation	Discovery (Completed) Supremacy (3 in) Technological Ascendancy	292	56%	177	57	6.1
Goofy machine build rushed for alloys	Machine Gestalt Determined Assimilators Rapid Replicators Rift World	Expansion (completed) Domination (3 in) Imperial Prerogative	368	25%	137	41	5.1
Determined Exterminator	Machine Gestalt Determined Exterminators Rapid Replicators Resource Consolidation	Discovery (Completed) Supremacy (3 in) Technological Ascendancy	245	48%	185	91	4.9
Overtuned Devouring Swarm	Hivemind Gestalt Devouring Swarm Natural Neural Network Overtuned	Expansion (3 in) Prosperity (Completed) Supremacy (3 in) One Vision	330	11%	222	65	4.5
Peaceful Parliamentary	Democracy Fanatic Egalitarian Peaceful Functional Architecture Parliamentary System Prosperous Unity	Expansion (3 in) Discovery (completed) Prosperity (3 in) One Vision	296	39%	140	55	3.1
Scion Tech Rush	Oligarchic Egalitarian Fanatic Materialist Meritocracy Technocracy Scion	Discovery (completed) Prosperity (1 in) Technological Ascendancy	239	87%	138	10	1.6

 

[Thirlan]

Consensus is forming that Machine will do well in this new environment. I haven't run a benchmark yet on a serious machine build. Wanted to try out Hivemind first to really see where it sits compared to the rest.

 

[Thirlan]

Other things to note. People are now focusing more on exploration which gives stored tech bonuses as well as unity boosts.

 

[IsmaiLOW333]

Other things to note. People are now focusing more on exploration which gives stored tech bonuses as well as unity boosts.

There's no other way to do it.

 

[Thirlan]

Hearing from people that machine and hive variations of this Sovereign Guardianship is the way to go now. They can achieve something like -90% sprawl from pop and they don't have to even do all the things mentioned in Montu's video.