Hive-Minded Questions

[IntelligentDesire]

1. Edited. Nevermind, I confused rulers and leaders. No bug there.

2. Anybody have some ideas on synergies in traits with hive-minded?

I am kind of new and I played one game out as an extreme spirtualist without race research bonuses and got kind of dragged down by 60-100 months of research later in the game despite me grabbing all the research bases, making research treaties, and research deals with the one research race. I want to take +research everything now so I don’t get bored in the endgame. Is intelligent + engineering mandatory?

 

[Methone]

It's not mandatory. You just need to, well, build research buildings on your colonies. My rule of thumb is "Fill in the tile's bonuses, empty tiles are first 1 of each Unity building, then all science labs, unless I DESPERATELY need something else".