Blorg stream questions: Armies, Primitives, Leaders and Genetics.

[DahndI]

I've been watching the Blorg streams for a while now and I have got some questions.

1. Is there a limitation to how many armies (beyond upkeep) that you can recruit tied to Pops? In the stream you seem to be able to recruit countless armies but I thought maybe there was something like 1 pop equals 2 armies going on behind the scenes?

2. If those armies consists of a species with the very strong trait (60% army damage) and then are given a general of the same species will that then stack to a 120%?

3. Those bronze age primitives you are enlightening in the Cizar system, will become your vassals. If you'd instead colonized that world with Blorg to be closer to your friends would you then have put them in reservates or just adopted them? Or would they be treated as a blocker, sort of like the dangerous wildlife?

4. Would it be possible with less friendly species to just kidnap some of them and genetically tailor them to your specific needs (Very Strong, Slow Learners and repugnant) so you could keep them as a work/ground force?

5. You appear to be avoiding robots and I get that sentient AI is a bad thing but couldn't you just keep them around as a sort of combat drones (Think Star Wars Separatist robots) where your guys are sitting on the master switch?

 

[Smertnik]

1. No POP/army limitations.

2. General racial traits seem not to affect armies directly.

3. Not sure if the Blorg Friendocracy could colonise that world at all, without some kind of conquest/uplifting/infiltration.

4. So far its confirmed only for non-sentients.

5. Robot armies are possible.

 

[Sam Kwiatkowksi]

I too am very interested in the possibilities of genetic engineering in the game, have we got any substantial information on it?

 

[Darustet]

You can genetically engineer races in your empire. But beware, your own species can get jealous if they start to feel inferior and could revolt because of that.

 

[FLESH HUNTER]

I don't think he could research the Robots without annoying the FE

 

[Randallw]

I thought it was because he doesn't want to give everything away before the game comes out.

 

[Milten]

I don't think he could research the Robots without annoying the FE

Keepers are triggered by AI tech not by everything connected to robots, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Bob_Herzog]

3. Those bronze age primitives you are enlightening in the Cizar system, will become your vassals. If you'd instead colonized that world with Blorg to be closer to your friends would you then have put them in reservates or just adopted them? Or would they be treated as a blocker, sort of like the dangerous wildlife?

No, they were to advandced for that. The Blorg could invade them (Hugers). You can find life on three different development levels and each allows different actions.

1. Not jet intelligent life. This is the life you can do genetic engineering, if you choose so. Other than that there is not much point. It will take those lifeform several million years to develop without interference.
2. Nomadic natives. These are the guys you can put into a reservate.
3. Primitive civilizations. Here you have the options (of course depending on your set of ethics): Passive observation, agressive observation, technological enlightment [= what the Blorg have done], covert infiltration or invasion.

With the exeption of the nomads where the only source so far seems to be Wiz's explenation in the Blorg stream all of this can be found in Dev Diary 13 & 14.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...-dev-diary-13-primitive-civilizations.897491/
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...dev-diary-14-uplifting-and-subspecies.898648/

 

[ikki]

you can colonize stone-agers (and put them in a zoo, lol), but no later ones. They have to be either enlightened,infiltrated or invaded to gain use of the planet.