Stellaris - Chimeral Consciousness does not reduce empire size [4.0.6] [aa83]

[Revengeance_oov]

Description
Chimeral Consciousness does not reduce empire size [4.0.6] [aa83]

Game Version


What version do you use?
Steam

What expansions do you have installed?
Plantoids, Humanoids, Synthetic Dawn, Utopia, Leviathans Story Pack, Apocalypse, Megacorp, Distant Stars, Ancient Relics, Lithoids, Federations, Necroids, Nemesis, Aquatics, Overlord, Toxoids, First Contact, Galactic Paragons, Astral Planes, Season 8 Expansion Pass, The Machine Age, Cosmic Storms, Grand Archive

Do you have mods enabled?
No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
The tooltip of Chimeral Consciousness reports that it reduces Empire Size from Pops by 1% per species trait, but has no effect.

Steps to reproduce the issue.
Unlock Chimeral Consciousness, noting Empire Size before and after the government shift.

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[Chytis03]

I also encountered this bug in my vanilla play through on 4.0.10, doesn't look like there is any per trait empire size from pops reduction as shown below. My total empire size actually went up due to the hive mind 25% getting replaced with the 20%. Thanks

 

[Revengeance_oov]

I also encountered this bug in my vanilla play through on 4.0.10, doesn't look like there is any per trait empire size from pops reduction as shown below. My total empire size actually went up due to the hive mind 25% getting replaced with the 20%. Thanks

I actually figured out what the issue is: the pop reduction is applied to individual species, like the Docile trait, rather than the entire government. This means its effect is multiplicative with other forms of empire size reduction, as well as not applying (except to a very small degree) to non-founder pops.

 

[Chytis03]

Oh right since you could have some pops without those traits, well would be nice if that information was conveyed somehow in the empire size tooltip anyways. Could be another nested tooltip, I love me some nested tooltips.

 

[Revengeance_oov]

Personally I think it should apply empire-wide based on the founder species...but maybe that's overpowered.