Hives

Hives
Ever wondered how Hive-Minds work in Stellaris? This video will answer your question
Edited by @Harinion, Main Channel @Strategiser

This Channel is inspired by Nurse and Trupen's short series on Project Zomboid and Factorio respectively

0:00 Did you know that in Stellaris you can become a Hive-Mind(Redditor)?
0:03 Are you tired of Thinking for yourself?
0:05 Then, let the Collective do it for you!
0:07 You can produce Amenities without Maintenance Drones, as long as you go to Synchronicity Tradition, and get the one which makes your Synapse Drones produce Amenities!
0:16 Added with Artifact-Relays Everywhere and your Planets get close to 90 Stability and have Insane Production!
0:22 Hive-Mind is also Stronger the Longer the Game goes due to their Insane Pop-Growth, Hive-Worlds, and a Decreased Debuff from Admin Cap
0:30 Do note that even if you DO have MORE Pops, your Pops will be LESS Efficient
0:35 This "quirk" is also supplemented by the fact that your Basic Resource Districts, give Three Jobs instead of Two, so Specializing your Planets and Techs that increase Output Per Job is EXTREMELY Important
0:47 Especially the Forge Upgrades, as it would increase your Pop Efficiency by a SUBSTANTIAL Amount
0:52 It's also Recommended to go Executive Vigor, and Research the Edict Capacity Techs so you can run Mining and Capacity Edicts, so your Pop Efficiency increases even more!

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[ethanwmonster]

Machine/hive world forges are only a little bit less potent than forge ecumenopolis difference is they're nearly twice as cheap and you can spam them. You can also spam your basic resource production worlds everywhere you will never need to worry about your researchers being less efficient when you can simply crap out minerals at absurd levels of efficiency. Budding and Phototrophic mean you need only minerals, energy and a minor amount of food, and you are good to go. And unlike the expensive arcology project hive worlds can have wait for it NO HOUSING DISTRICTS how is this possible well with the industrial matience edict and adaptability traditions as well as communal your hive worlds can operate WITH no housing. So you can have hive worlds with no districts wasted on "housing". The true power of the hive world/ machine worlds is versatility as they can produce virtually any resource in obscene quantities.

[flyingbicycles]

I remember at one point as a devouring swarm I got a forge drone to produce 14.1 alloys from 13.9 minerals. I have no idea where the extra 0.2 matter came from but I took it

[TheRambossss]

So, the reddit empire, made of weak individuals that mine more efficiently


The jokes never write themselves

[prematurebat]

Mixing hive minds and lithoids its pretty godly especially with a hive world and tree of life origin. You'll be God pops that can produce resources when you get your hands on the bio tech and traditions.

[shards]

Wait you mean you AREN'T supposed to have 0 stability on all worlds leaving all of your hive pops unemployed building pure fortress complexes on all of your worlds? Huh, maybe I've just been doing it wrong.

[annilator]

Actually, there isn't "let the hivemind think for you", it's one and whole organism thinking for itself.

[grilledchicken]

I recently played a machine empire and desperately looked for the +2 amenities tradition - just to find out it's a hivemind trad.

Drone storages help, though.

[jazzskeletonwithajoint]

Is there any reason to not play hive mind or machine empire? They just seem better than any regular bio build (unless clone army but most games require you to go descended and non militarist)

[sirpompom]

My most recent game had me on the borders of a swarm and some "honourbound warriors". That wasn't my problem, my problem was that all my planets in my sizeable chunck of space were mindbogglingly shit. Revising strategy...

[deityofmeschief]

ive played hive minds from the day i picked up the game i mean its fun and all to worry about politics but "We are Legion"

[spacekicker]

Don't waste your perk slot on edit funds. They only cost extra harmony a month over your cap and you can easily produce so much that it won't matter.

[alexanderzippel]

I remember one game, I ruled. Slowly subjugated everything in my path, until I saw in the endgame the Hivemind that was living on the other side of the Galaxy. Boy that wasn’t a fun war.

[medical-cyanide]

IMO machine intelligence/hives are entirely worth it because less resources to manage and you can pretty much instantly move pops to where you need em, there is no time delay before a pop will degrade from a higher stratum. Makes quickly filling a planet extremely easy. It makes the game where the only resources you constantly have to keep an eye on is pops, cause you can only produce them so fast.

[BluMacaw]

No, don't go executive vigor. Your edicts will cost thousands of unity, +100 unity you only get as a soft edict cap is useless unless you are playing on tiny galaxies. It should scale with player to be viable, but it doesn't.

[ayuwoki]

Omg can't believe I can create reddit in stellaris

[kepprr]

Gestalt Robot empires are very OP. My opinion: if you’re not picking MASS PRODUCED as a trait (+15% Assembly Speed) and RAPID REPLICATORS (+25% Assembly Speed) as a civic then I think you’re trolling. Having the ability to make pops so quickly is unbelievable. Partner Mass Produced (it cost 1 trait point as well) with Logic Engines and Emotion Emulators (with your negative traits being High Bandwith and Repurposed Hardware) you’ve got yourself a strong pop and tech rush build. You’ll find yourself having ammenities issues because of upkeep, so Emotion Emulators are important, as you don’t want your never ending supply of pops working drone jobs. Partner Rapid Replicators with either Determined Exterminator or Driven Assimilator (if you want to kill everyone, Driven Assimilator gives you bio pop growth on top of your regular growth) or if you want to take a more passive path, Rouge Servitor. You’re 3rd unlock-able civic I’d recommend Maintenance Protocols as you’re not going to be making much unity, so gaining bio pops is important.

Been playing with robot empires for so long now, that it feels weird doing anything else. The fact that your can pump out nearly 500 research off the first few years is amazing, and since you aren’t thinking about food or consumer goods, you can push out alloys faster then anyone else.

Machine worlds are very underrated as well. ;)

[deus_vlt]

wow, i didn't know that
i think it's time to play as hive mind

[comradecat]

i never pick hive mind idk I always hated the borgs the most.

[jazmineash]

The based Dying Light soundtrack sigma gigachad ❤️❤️❤️

[nicomauxi]

come on, carry me on a mp game. ty love u