Hive Minds' only possible ascension path is Biological, which means the only way to get better leaders is to go Erudite+Talented etc. Unlike other Bio Ascension empires, however, everyone is either a Drone with Full Citizenship or a Livestock Slave, which means your dedicated leadership species is just one in a sea of available leader candidates. It's even worse if you Nerve Staple some integrated xenos (or make a subspecies from your main one) for minerals and have them appearing as candidates, I mean wtf guys go back to the mines please. So I'd like to see some possible differentiation so that I can have only one species in my Hive producing leaders.
The only issue I can see with this is that maybe Residence wouldn't fit flavor-wise... but Full Citizenship already doesn't either (I mean, "each and every individual"?). So I think we could get a text swap for both citizenships just like Traditions already have (if it's possible) or just make two citizenship clones for them and make them Hive-only. You don't even need to be very creative, something like
Hive Mind
-Species can produce Leaders
-Default for Hive Minds at game start
-At least one primary subspecies has to have it
"The Mind is greater than the sum of its parts."
Workforce
-10% Consumer Goods Cost
-Species can not produce Leaders
-Available the moment a second species/subspecies is added to the Hive
"Too much drone autonomy tires the Mind."
would be enough.
If this is unacceptable to the devs, at the very least stop Nerve Stapled species from producing Leaders, I'm tired of getting memed by them.
The only issue I can see with this is that maybe Residence wouldn't fit flavor-wise... but Full Citizenship already doesn't either (I mean, "each and every individual"?). So I think we could get a text swap for both citizenships just like Traditions already have (if it's possible) or just make two citizenship clones for them and make them Hive-only. You don't even need to be very creative, something like
Hive Mind
-Species can produce Leaders
-Default for Hive Minds at game start
-At least one primary subspecies has to have it
"The Mind is greater than the sum of its parts."
Workforce
-10% Consumer Goods Cost
-Species can not produce Leaders
-Available the moment a second species/subspecies is added to the Hive
"Too much drone autonomy tires the Mind."
would be enough.
If this is unacceptable to the devs, at the very least stop Nerve Stapled species from producing Leaders, I'm tired of getting memed by them.
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