Why am I not purging these robots and why are they elites

[Kingman]

I am playing a fanatic materialist xenophobic empird with servitude rights to robots

I conquered a machine intelligence empire and took their only world. With this conquest cMe 3.7k pops from their hive mind

Somehow their pops are setup as to be considered normal robot pops now. And they even are taking elite jobs out of my citizens.

Is this working as intended?

 

[RingworldUtopia]

I am playing a fanatic materialist xenophobic empird with servitude rights to robots

I conquered a machine intelligence empire and took their only world. With this conquest cMe 3.7k pops from their hive mind

Somehow their pops are setup as to be considered normal robot pops now. And they even are taking elite jobs out of my citizens.

Is this working as intended?

wait... i thought fanatic materialist forces citizen rights for AI?

 

[Kingman]

wait... i thought fanatic materialist forces citizen rights for AI?

Not necessarily. You can have them under servitude.

Also I thought hiveminded machine pops you conquer would be exterminated

 

[RingworldUtopia]

Not necessarily. You can have them under servitude.

Also I thought hiveminded machine pops you conquer would be exterminated

ok but doesn't materialist prevent you from purging machines then? what makes these machines more undesirable to you than the robots you already have as slaves?

 

[Kingman]

ok but doesn't materialist prevent you from purging machines then? what makes these machines more undesirable to you than the robots you already have as slaves?

These machines are toasters I conquered from a machine hive mind

Toasters dont get opinion on this matter.


(Jokes aside, I do want to purge them as the pops in question are pops I do not want in my empire.)

 

[HFY]

"A politician is nothing more than a public servant! Vote strength, vote Synth!"

"To be dominated by me is not as bad for organic pride as to be dominated by others of your species."

 

[Abdulijubjub]

Since Machine Age, machine pops are no longer incompatible with individualist empires, because they added individualist machines (and the game doesn't track the difference between machine-gestalt and machine-individualist pops).

Machines are treated like regular pops and are fully sapient regardless of your technology level. They don't get purged unless you outlaw robotic workers.

 

[RingworldUtopia]

These machines are toasters I conquered from a machine hive mind

Toasters dont get opinion on this matter.


(Jokes aside, I do want to purge them as the pops in question are pops I do not want in my empire.)

and I assume that you can't assimilate them into your regular robots because not synth ascension, right? can you at least change the species template and make them look like your robots? for roleplay purposes, that should fit into your xenophobic robot slavery empire, right? assuming the game allows you to change species portrait of the machine species without synth ascension, which is something i don't know.

 

[Kingman]

and I assume that you can't assimilate them into your regular robots because not synth ascension, right? can you at least change the species template and make them look like your robots? for roleplay purposes, that should fit into your xenophobic robot slavery empire, right? assuming the game allows you to change species portrait of the machine species without synth ascension, which is something i don't know.

Thats the thing. I dont have any of those options as the game doesnt have that implemented.

I would have liked to roleplay changing them to be exactly the same as my other robots yes.

No assimilation possible

 

[passeris]

Thats the thing. I dont have any of those options as the game doesnt have that implemented.

I would have liked to roleplay changing them to be exactly the same as my other robots yes.

No assimilation possible

What would be the point in that? That's not xenophobia, that's Asperger's. I'm sympathetic you don't have the option to dismantle them (without becoming Spiritualist), but a robot is a robot, their behaviour is programmed. What's the matter, can't write new firmware? Pshh, 'materialists' these days...

 

[balmung60]

You absolutely should have the option to change their portraits and name so long as you have unlocked even basic robomodding. If you're never letting them become leaders, you're never going to see their actual name list, so a robot is a robot is a robot.

 

[RingworldUtopia]

What would be the point in that? That's not xenophobia, that's Asperger's. I'm sympathetic you don't have the option to dismantle them (without becoming Spiritualist), but a robot is a robot, their behaviour is programmed. What's the matter, can't write new firmware? Pshh, 'materialists' these days...

to be fair, they're xenophobic materialists, so this seems pretty on brand lol