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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Military Cabal was a tough one. I was trying to come up with a way to describe a great deal of incompetence and nepotism in the middle-ranks with the effect that ships are somewhat less effective.

-70% Admiral Experience Gain

[IronyOwl]

I like these. They'd no doubt suffer from the usual issues of -military being a given for pacifists and -core worlds being toxic no matter what and so on, but they look like they'd hit the niche of mechanically meaningful but not overwhelming, and be highly flavorful while doing so. It's not just a stat trade, it tells you something about how your empire is run.

[forsaken1111]

New dev diary: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-57-species-rights.995302/

Rights and obligations. Also an as-yet unannounced paid DLC which will contain some additional features like different slavery types and options.

[Retropunch]

New dev diary: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-57-species-rights.995302/

Rights and obligations. Also an as-yet unannounced paid DLC which will contain some additional features like different slavery types and options.

Interesting stuff, I can imagine it being good for sort of 'roleplaying' purposes, but I do wonder slightly about if you'll be messing around micromanaging pop rights for small increases.

[Digital Hellhound]

Ooh. That's more stuff than I expected. The ways to Space Nazi only grow.

I can imagine some deliciously flavorful combinations there. Give your Livestock slaves Utopian living conditions? Sure, you'll want your walking meals to be as healthy and succulent as possible.

[forsaken1111]

I love the introduction of refugees and I hope they expand on that. Imagine a refugee fleet ala Battlestar Galactica or the Quarians from Mass Effect and you can choose to shelter them at the cost of danger and/or diplomatic penalties from their aggressors but you might gain free pops, technology, etc.

Also of note, the next dev diary will cover Orbital Habitats. Get hype.

[Retropunch]

I'm hoping orbital habitats will allow for more 'tall' empires with a few dense systems, however I can't see how they'd balance it as you can basically always defend if you've got a fortress and a few defense platforms + small fleet.

You'd basically end up with zero risk play, so I can only imagine that the orbital habitats might be more like spacestations mk2

[stabbymcstabstab]

I imagine the habits are going to be either a bit fragile so that they might just be destroyed in seconds of a fleet engaging them, or be a fortress upon themselves.


Also this will be a good patch, also love the fact they finally put up another quarantine thread for sectors.

[EuchreJack]

I love the introduction of refugees and I hope they expand on that. Imagine a refugee fleet ala Battlestar Galactica or the Quarians from Mass Effect and you can choose to shelter them at the cost of danger and/or diplomatic penalties from their aggressors but you might gain free pops, technology, etc.

Also of note, the next dev diary will cover Orbital Habitats. Get hype.

Eh, Aurora has Orbital Habitats and it's free.  I'm betting the Orbital Habitats will be DLC-only.

EDIT: And where are my Sex Slaves?

[IronyOwl]

EDIT: And where are my Sex Slaves?

Domestic Servants probably include slutty tentacled maids.

[EuchreJack]

EDIT: And where are my Sex Slaves?

Domestic Servants probably include slutty tentacled maids.

I doubt it.  The game doesn't simulate Hybrids yet.

[PTTG??]

Anyone know a good mod to speed robot production?

[IronyOwl]

Reality interjecting, two species on the same planet can't reproduce and form offspring a lot of the time (Close relatives usually can, there's a thing to get the theory of evolution updated since different, but related, species have been found to interbreed and produce fertile offspring, allowing gene transfer across species). How in the hell would a species with a probably VASTLY different biology produce a viable child with, say a human?

We are talking about a game where Jedi use warp drive to land robot space marines supported by clone commandos on an alien planet in order to occupy it long enough to justify a different planet being liberated as a puppet state. I agree natural hybrids would be considerably softer than most of the game's current stuff already is, but it is and always has been more space opera than realistic.

It could probably fit in cleaner as a policy option (or right/responsibility, once Banks hits) or moddable-only species trait, I suppose. Somewhat in parallel with reality, I imagine making actual, discrete hybrid pops would be prohibitively obnoxious to implement in game, though.

[stabbymcstabstab]

Still don't get how hybrids are softer, if humans and chimps can't have kids while evolving on the same planet, I doubt Humans and Space Fox/Cat/Racoon can with the whole totally different star system bit.

[Culise]

Magic sufficiently advanced science, obviously.  Well, that's tongue-in-cheek, but it's not far off in truth.  Once your genetic engineering is effective enough to allow you to create life forms more or less whole cloth, it's not implausible that such designer life forms might be extended to "children" that exhibit phenotypic traits common to both parents (emphasizing phenotype over genotype also conveniently sets aside whether the two parents even need the same form of genetic material on a "broad strokes" level). 

Which wouldn't exactly be something most masters would commonly do in a master-slave relationship, though.