Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Criptfeind]

Also in stellaris terms displaced pops CAN survive if there's an appropriate empire to receive them, but if not... Well. They just "disappear" into nothingness. Even if you don't count forced migration as genocide, displacement still will result in genocide almost all the time.

[forsaken1111]

With the reworked planet system in the next major update displacement will be less genocidal. Planets will only have soft pop caps rather than hard limits of planet size = num pops so accepting refugees will be a potential way to get immigration but could also lead to a refugee crisis as refugees flood your worlds beyond their capacity to employ and house

[Loud Whispers]

I hope this means you can disgustingly overpopulated hive worlds that are just 100% of the planet's surface covered in kowloon walled cities

[Teneb]

It also means that genemodding pops to breed extremely quickly and then displacing them is going to be even more effective at hilariously crippling your opponents.

[Radsoc]

Growth in one pop at a time is kind of strange. Achieving good population dynamics that doesn't go bonkers over time is difficult. They would basically have to simulate it before they implement something definite.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I hope this means you can disgustingly overpopulated hive worlds that are just 100% of the planet's surface covered in kowloon walled cities

I see no reason why not. Any planet can have as many city/urban districts as it can hold, which is great because they provide the most housing per district too. Throw in as many housing requirement reducing civics, living standards and traits as you can get, and I see no reason why you can't have a population density to rival the Kowloon Walled City over the entire planet. I think that was explicitly a goal mentioned by the developers too.

[Culise]

As psychohistory confirms, Trantor is now an inevitability.

Its fall into a pastoral ruin is also an inevitability, but let's not go into details. 

[Trekkin]

I hope this means you can disgustingly overpopulated hive worlds that are just 100% of the planet's surface covered in kowloon walled cities

I see no reason why not. Any planet can have as many city/urban districts as it can hold, which is great because they provide the most housing per district too. Throw in as many housing requirement reducing civics, living standards and traits as you can get, and I see no reason why you can't have a population density to rival the Kowloon Walled City over the entire planet. I think that was explicitly a goal mentioned by the developers too.

Yeah, the whole idea of an ecumenopolis is well established in the sort of space opera lore that Stellaris is drawing from. Coruscant is probably the widest-known example, although its numbers are as messed up as anything in Star Wars.

[Broseph Stalin]

It also means that genemodding pops to breed extremely quickly and then displacing them is going to be even more effective at hilariously crippling your opponents.

How have I not already done this? My xenophobic slavers are going to create a version of a slave race that's super fertile and terrible at everything, fill a planet with them and then mass deport to screw with those dirty xenophiles.

[Loud Whispers]

How have I not already done this? My xenophobic slavers are going to create a version of a slave race that's super fertile and terrible at everything, fill a planet with them and then mass deport to screw with those dirty xenophiles.

Locust pops are good: But try one better. Make them fertile, utterly useless, solitary & charismatic. Unleash the galactic catsplosion of adorable, useless cats into every enemy Empire

[Egan_BW]

Sapient useless cats that cover the whole galaxy, becoming the most populous species while being utterly useless but adorable.

[pisskop]

Ironically Humans are some of the best breeders in the game; since they spawn in with fixed traits and have a good home system.

[ChairmanPoo]

They spawn with whatever traits you spawn them.

To clarify: you can create custom human empires with different species traits without them stopping being human. But Earth and Deneb humans will share traits when spawning, regardless of the nature of those traits, AFAIK.

[pisskop]

Well yea, but out of the base game's presets humies are ridiculously quick to spread.  Adaptable is totes op, and their systems are stronger than generics.

[Damiac]

Hmm, big changes, I'm sure they're as well thought out as the last few batches.

I'm going to keep waiting until it's a side scrolling beat 'em up, I expect that'll happen around version 5.