Ascension Perk Elimination

[bunkerman]

Executive Vigor 20
Interstellar Dominion: 30
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 25
Galactic Force Projection: 9 (-2)
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 19
Colossus Project: 12
Galactic Wonders: 18 (+1)
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 7
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 23

another day another vote time to go after galactic force projection while ok early on grasp teh void does it better and its already out
as i said before wonders are pretty good even now and will be even better in 2.2 idk why people downvote them so often

 

[Tyrannical Prince]

Executive Vigor 21 (+1)
Interstellar Dominion: 30
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23 (-2)
Galactic Force Projection: 9
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 19
Colossus Project: 12
Galactic Wonders: 18
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 7
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 23

Executive vigor is just good and I never really went for habitats.

 

[Bobylein]

Executive Vigor 21
Interstellar Dominion: 30
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 9
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 19
Colossus Project: 12
Galactic Wonders: 18
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 8 (+1)
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21 (-2)


Day 3:
While I love Psionic Ascension and it's my most played ascension perk, it's just nothing one can rely on to win because of its horrible rng

Biological Ascension on the other hand can give you a stable, resource pumping slave empire or assimilate other species if you are a hive mind.

 

[ffsffs1]

Executive Vigor 21
Interstellar Dominion: 31 (+1)
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 7 (-2)
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 19
Colossus Project: 12
Galactic Wonders: 18
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 8
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

 

[Maverikfreak]

Executive Vigor 19 (-2)
Interstellar Dominion: 31
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 8 (+1)
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 19
Colossus Project: 12
Galactic Wonders: 18
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 8
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

 

[Enska]

Executive Vigor 20 (+1)
Interstellar Dominion: 31
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 8
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 17 (-2)
Colossus Project: 12
Galactic Wonders: 18
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 8
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

For me, executive vigour is more relevant pick. Terraforming is just an energy dump anyway. I might be undervaluing Gaia worlds though: +10% production is not a trivial bonus.

 

[Silens]

Executive Vigor 20
Interstellar Dominion: 29 (-2)
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 8
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 17
Colossus Project: 13 (+1)
Galactic Wonders: 18
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 8
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

Well then, a new day with new possibilities!

It should be no secret that I highly value the Total War CB, so I think Colossus should get my vote again. (since it is quite underrated right now)

Interstellar Dominion on the other hand loses most of its worth once all borders are set (around midgame). Yes, you can grab a few more system in the beginning, but after that it's quite useless. The real influence saver is the Total War CB, which keeps its usefulness for as long as there are systems to conquer, that means even to the late endgame.

 

[D Inqu]

Executive Vigor 20
Interstellar Dominion: 27 (-2)
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 8
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 17
Colossus Project: 13
Galactic Wonders: 18
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 9 (+1)
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

No idea why ID is so high, sure it's very good for some playstyles, but if you are aiming for liberation wars (federation victory) or you are one of the multiple factions with TW unlocked from the start, or if you want to go tall and only get TW later with Colossus, then ID is pointless.

Biological ascnsion I am picking again, because it's such a good perk for reason outlined before.

 

[Spartakus]

Executive Vigor 20
Interstellar Dominion: 27
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 8
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 15 (-2)
Colossus Project: 13
Galactic Wonders: 19 (+1)
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 9
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

Propably the last time I'll avoid revoting as we're running out of perks I dislike.
World Shaper because Terraforming is usually a waste of resources and forming to Gaia doesn't really help much.
Galactic Wonders on the other hand is a plain old cool way to waste your resources. Who doesn't want to have a Dyson sphere?

 

[Leylos]

Executive Vigor 20
Interstellar Dominion: 27
Technological Ascendancy: 21 (-2)
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 8
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 15
Colossus Project: 13
Galactic Wonders: 19
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 10 (+1)
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

Biological Ascension can be anything you want it to be. The amount of customization it brings is incredible, not to mention how good some of the new traits are.

Technological Ascendancy isn't bad, but it scales terribly into the end game. The longer the game goes on, the worse this perk becomes.

 

[Yeekim]

Executive Vigor 20
Interstellar Dominion: 27
Technological Ascendancy: 21
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 8
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 13 (-2)
Colossus Project: 13
Galactic Wonders: 19
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 11 (+1)
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

Bio-ascendancy deserves some love.

 

[sortulv]

Executive Vigor 18 (-2)
Interstellar Dominion: 27
Technological Ascendancy: 21
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 8
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 13
Colossus Project: 13
Galactic Wonders: 20 (+1)
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 11
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

Vigor does very little, and wonders drives the midgame.

 

[Doctor Bones]

It uses energy, which you really can't use elsewhere and just sits there being yellow at the top of your screen.

Machine Worlds are worse than Gaia Worlds (+20% additive vs. 10% multiplicative) even for machine empires though. (Machine empires are sad for production, poor pop traits, can't use happiness, their pop research bonus is additive vs. bio hive multiplicative, no bonus to match slavery, etc)

I just feel like every energy credit produced is a mineral not produced. Also, I usually use 95% of my EC for ship, building and station upkeep. The rest for campaigns and deals with other empires. Therefore, I never really have enough EC for terraforming anyway. Though this will probably change in 2.2.

Also:

Executive Vigor 16 (-2)
Interstellar Dominion: 27
Technological Ascendancy: 22 (+1)
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 8
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 13
Colossus Project: 13
Galactic Wonders: 20
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 11
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

Always seems to end up picking TA sometime in the game while EV is never really used that much by me. Just never seem to have enough influence...

 

[Vonuggbin]

Executive Vigor 16
Interstellar Dominion: 27
Technological Ascendancy: 22
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 8
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 11 (-2)
Colossus Project: 14 (+1)
Galactic Wonders: 20
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 11
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

 

[WhapXI]

Executive Vigor 16
Interstellar Dominion: 27
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 6
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 11
Colossus Project: 14
Galactic Wonders: 20
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 11
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

My choices, now it tasteful blue and orange.

 

[Mastikator]

Executive Vigor 16
Interstellar Dominion: 27
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 6
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 12 (+1)
Colossus Project: 14
Galactic Wonders: 20
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 9 (-2)
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 25
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

 

[Livigy]

Executive Vigor 16
Interstellar Dominion: 27
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 6
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 12
Colossus Project: 14
Galactic Wonders: 20
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 10 (+1)
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 23 (-2)
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

If I want to play robots I play a robot empire, if I want synths I will build them and make a decent bio race with brainslugs with blue vials in alien boxes. Synthetic Ascension just does not seemed to have aged well for me as the game evolves.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Executive Vigor 16
Interstellar Dominion: 27
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 7 (+1)
Master Builders: 16
World Shaper: 11
Colossus Project: 14
Galactic Wonders: 20
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 12
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 21 (-2)
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

+80 fleet capacity in midgame instantly and without cost is still better than you all appear to realise.

Synth ascension has too many tech requirements, too many special projects, and the productivity isn't good enough to make it worth it given that you can match it for minerals with no ascension and blow it out of the water with either of the others.

 

[y1kdcb5au9rqw]

Executive Vigor 16
Interstellar Dominion: 27
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 7
Master Builders: 17 (+1)
World Shaper: 11
Colossus Project: 12 (-2)
Galactic Wonders: 20
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 12
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 21
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 21

 

[Lord Beyer XVII]

Day 6

Executive Vigor 16
Interstellar Dominion: 27
Technological Ascendancy: 23
Voidborne: 23
Galactic Force Projection: 7
Master Builders: 17
World Shaper: 11
Colossus Project: 12
Galactic Wonders: 20
Biological Ascension (Engineered Evolution + Evolutionary Mastery): 12
Synthetic Ascension (The Flesh is Weak + Synthetic Evolution): 19 (-2)
Psionic Ascension (Mind over Matter + Transcendence): 22(+1)