Can we clone leaders or Saving Mercedes

[Jerev]

In the stream Mercedes Romero should be around 160 years old and while that is the best age for a venerable Blorg there is the possibility that she will eventually die of age.

So here are my questions:
- is it possible to clone leaders with the right tech?
- do the clones keep some skills?
- or will there be an influence cost to make it balanced?

Please don't hit me if I guessed her age wrong. I know that she doesn't look a day over 99!

 

[Mordaith]

In the stream Mercedes Romero should be around 160 years old and while that is the best age for a venerable Blorg there is the possibility that she will eventually die of age.

So here are my questions:
- is it possible to clone leaders with the right tech?
- do the clones keep some skills?
- or will there be an influence cost to make it balanced?

Please don't hit me if I guessed her age wrong. I know that she doesn't look a day over 99!

While I really want to know. Part of me wants stuff like this to be a surprise still. I can only imagine how much they are still holding back on us.

 

[13Foxtrot]

Duncan Idaho......

 

[13Foxtrot]

or if you do it wrong you wind up with the guy in the back seat

 

[Jerev]

or if you do it wrong you wind up with the guy in the back seat

That should be a possible late game crisis in which your empire becomes like society in the movie 'ideocracy'. If you fail to meet it's problems you end up to be a fallen empire.

 

[S.C. Watson]

Duncan Idaho......

 

[13Foxtrot]

That should be a possible late game crisis in which your empire becomes like society in the movie 'ideocracy'. If you fail to meet it's problems you end up to be a fallen empire.

Yes you create a clone army of the third guy from multiplicity....he calls everyone Steve.

 

[SobakenKusaken]

Sounds rather imbalanced. What would the purpose of all those traits for experience gain and longevity be, if you could just replicate a single max level leader?

 

[Jerev]

Sounds rather imbalanced. What would the purpose of all those traits for experience gain and longevity be, if you could just replicate a single max level leader?

Well if it is possible to get sentient AI leaders which seem to be highly talented and ageless (IF they are possible to get) then cloning leaders would be a slightly less powerful biological approach.

 

[aitaituo]

Sounds rather imbalanced. What would the purpose of all those traits for experience gain and longevity be, if you could just replicate a single max level leader?

Don't be silly, a ghola isn't born with a max level. You have to give it PTSD before its genetic memories return.

 

[Ifreann]

Well if it is possible to get sentient AI leaders which seem to be highly talented and ageless (IF they are possible to get) then cloning leaders would be a slightly less powerful biological approach.

Having sentient AI pops can start a late game crisis. There'd need to be some kind of limits or drawbacks to cloning skilled leaders, or it would make the "leaders gain experience" feature pointless once you get the cloning tech.

 

[Jerev]

Having sentient AI pops can start a late game crisis. There'd need to be some kind of limits or drawbacks to cloning skilled leaders, or it would make the "leaders gain experience" feature pointless once you get the cloning tech.

That could be the risk of the clones to secure some sets of clonin metrial and then trying to kill all members of your species that aren't them. After that they will try to conquer some planets of other species and start their clone faction with whom they will immediately form a federation.
I guess it would be a similiar crisis to an AI uprising because e.g. spiritual empires who didn't use robots aren't as severe damaged by disappearing sentient AI workers.