Devouring Swarm Colonization Problem

[m3n3lli]

So I know no one is going to take this suggestion seriously but I need to air my thoughts on the general idea of this Civic...

Playing as a Devouring Swarm I always imagined that when I invade a planet I eat the existing population (which is what happens at the moment) and THEN I am given the option to colonize the planet or leave it devoid of life instead of forcing me to add the planet to my Empire. The outcome right now is having 200-300 planets to manage Late Game and it takes both a portion of my computer's calculating power as well as wasting my time in micro-managing them and constantly expanding the Empire Sprawl limit...

I'm a DEVOURING SWARM which means I want to DEVOUR, not deal with the infrastructure later on. And I don't want to waste an Ascendancy Perk just to get the collossus project so I can destroy the planet. I don't want to destroy them in general! That is not how I envision playing this kind of species. I want to eat the pops and leave the planet barren and that is what should be allowed to players.

Thanks for taking the time to not read this

 

[hart30]

Just play a smaller galaxy or lower the amount of habitable worlds via slider at gamestart.

 

[GOLANX]

There is a similar suggestion floating around for Determined Exterminators who have the same problem (invading is faster than bombardment).

 

[Objulen]

That may be an issue with migration settings. ou'll only keep the planet as a colony if you have your own pops there already. It'd be better if there was a Planetary Decision you could use to ban migration to that planet. If you don't have pops migrating to a planet you are purging, then you'll abandon the colony anyway when the final pop is removed/killed. But with the focus on automated pop resettlement, keeping migration controls on isn't the greatest option.

 

[m3n3lli]

Just play a smaller galaxy or lower the amount of habitable worlds via slider at gamestart.

That is not really a solution to my problem because I will be still forced to either destroy a planet or indirectly colonize it...

 

[SeraphAscending]

Not a solution, but a temporary workaround:
Disable all jobs and pops will not go there and local pops will resettle eventually, abandoning the planet.

 

[m3n3lli]

Not a solution, but a temporary workaround:
Disable all jobs and pops will not go there and local pops will resettle eventually, abandoning the planet.

Not a bad idea however the planet will still be taken over and added to my empire increasing my sprawl until it is abandoned giving me possible penalties and a revolt if I don't stabilize it immidiately.

 

[InvisibleBison]

Not a solution, but a temporary workaround:
Disable all jobs and pops will not go there and local pops will resettle eventually, abandoning the planet.

This wouldn't work, unfortunately. Gestalts can't turn off land appropriation, so whenever they conquer a planet some of their pops always automatically move there.

 

[GOLANX]

This wouldn't work, unfortunately. Gestalts can't turn off land appropriation, so whenever they conquer a planet some of their pops always automatically move there.

I've used that trick as a DE my pops generally leave before the purge is over, devouring swarm should be doing the same thing, all your pops leave and the undersireables feed themselves to the meat grinder. It sounds like an exploit doesn't it? You'd think with nobody there to control them they would effectively revolt and free themselves not continue to enter you Picknick baskets like lemmings.

 

[SeraphAscending]

I've used that trick as a DE my pops generally leave before the purge is over, devouring swarm should be doing the same thing, all your pops leave and the undersireables feed themselves to the meat grinder. It sounds like an exploit doesn't it? You'd think with nobody there to control them they would effectively revolt and free themselves not continue to enter you Picknick baskets like lemmings.

Put them all in a big funnel on top of the meat grinder before you leave.

 

[Colonizor48]

Devouring swarms and determined exterminators should gradually turn worlds they colonize into a new world type that would be like tomb world but not radioactive. This world type would be easier to terraform into a hive or machine world. And devouring swarms would have +50% habitability on this world type while all other empires would have 0% on this.

 

[Lorenerd11]

Personally I feel that pops should put up more resistance to being purged, especially if the victim pops vastly outnumber the conquering pops and the stationed armies alike.

I actually think that while pop purging is ongoing, there should be recurring invasions every now and then on the planet, proportional to the number of purged pops. The more purged pops there are, the more armies you'll have to repel.

A similar mechanic should be used for slave rebellions.

Purged pops should also use little or no housing (0 or 0.1), since obviously the empire wiping them out doesn't care much for accommodating them.

That's what I think the maintanance of purged pops should be all about – less about housing them the way you would citizen pops, more about putting down potential resistance.