This is something I've wanted for a while now and while it may not end up included in Banks, it would be nice if I could just domesticate an alien race as a form of livestock instead of having to uplift and enslave them.
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Can we domesticate non-sentient species please?
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You mean with a potential planet of the apes-like event chain? Could be fun.
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I mean, the option of a planet-of-the-apes-like event chain for a scenario like this would be rather interesting...
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Every race gonna be space cattle in 1.5.. can set how you want each race in your empire to be treated. Nobility? No problem! Get 'em high! Slaves? No problem! Work 'em to death in the mines! Food? No problem! Serve 'em up with coleslaw! As for primitive species, i could be wrong here but I think if you land troops on their planet, it considers it an 'invasion' and they become part of your empire, from which point you can treat them however you want.
You're kinda missing the point. It would be nice if I could just take a pre-sentient species and turn them into food rather than having to go through the uplift and enslavement rigmarole.
Also just to clarify, we are not discussing primitive species.
You could just terrorform their planet to something else to eradicate them.
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But the point isn't to eradicate them. =/ Ideally the point is to use them as a food source that doesn't piss off xenophobes (Because they're space-cows) and that doesn't contribute to the aggregate science penalty. (Because they're space-cows) Although perhaps that's why you can't domesticate them...
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As already said in this planet, if you just want livestock, you could 'already' (assuming 1.5) just invade the planet in question, which strikes your livestock with the 'stellar culture shock' penality, which however is completely irrelevant to livestock (which doesn't work anyways). Albeit I could see why, thematically, you would want to have a pre-sentient livestock species, so this is definitely something Paradox could throw an eye on.
Somehow, domesticating chimpanzees as livestock seems neither efficient nor impressively decadent.
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Friendly nudge to all since I have just deleted 2 posts in this thread.
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Guys, please keep on topic. Discussing if a topic itself has merit is fine but to go and say "That's wrong lets discuss these other things instead" (the other thigns being off topic things), is just plain against the rules.
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