How about a Thanos-like Endgame crisis?

[monkeypunch87]

I know, I know, I'm a stupid Marvel fanboy and everything (can't wait for Avengers 4), but wouldn't something similar to the Thanos-SNAP be a worthwile addition to the selection of midgame or endgame crises?

We now have the situation with 2.2 of unlimited population growth, overpopulation and an interesting economy system in the mid and later stages of the game. Image a SNAP and half of the population of the Stellaris Universe is gone. It is a hard setback, but probably handleable and, a huge difference to all other crises right now, you might even embrace it and you let the Thanos-like villian procede, because you are prepared for it ansd your enemies are not. Or you fight it like all other crises.

What do you think? It doesn't even have to be so close to the MCU, you could probably imagine something similar in the Stellaris lore.

 

[Pyoro]

I wouldn't mind space plagues that occasionally ravaged stellar civilizations and killed off a bunch of pops.

But nothing like this.

 

[monkeypunch87]

I wouldn't mind space plagues that occasionally ravaged stellar civilizations and killed off a bunch of pops.

But nothing like this.

The idea behind this suggestion is a to establish a crisis in Stellaris that you might actually want to happen. I know, the Khan is something close to this idea, but only if he isn't close by and goes on rampage against enemy empires.

 

[Eled the Worm Tamer]

So we could solve it by giving him a coppy of any of the books written since the 1800s that refute the predicted Malthusian colapse?

 

[monkeypunch87]

So we could solve it by giving him a coppy of any of the books written since the 1800s that refute the predicted Malthusian colapse?

Even if you prove his motive is wrong, it doesn't mean that he is stopping.

 

[Eled the Worm Tamer]

Even if you prove his motive is wrong, it doesn't mean that he is stopping.

No but if I die while smashing him in the face with an academic work on the green revolution screaming "Malthus was a mysanthropic imbecile you gorm-deficent git!" I will die happy.

 

[monkeypunch87]

But seriously, wouldn't this be a nice addition to the crises?

Also, I would like to see some economic midgame/endgame crises.

 

[Losttruppen]

So we could solve it by giving him a coppy of any of the books written since the 1800s that refute the predicted Malthusian colapse?

Did you even read An Essay on the Principle of Population or just get a predigested opinion from your university? Despite the title most of the essay argues against the idea that humanity will achieve a state of Utopia (a common belief among enlightened scholars was that technology would solve any and all problems and lead us to Utopia) simply by wishing it to be. He uses population as an example, and the fact that with a limited resource (land area of england) you will ultimately encounter a ceiling on your growth and anything beyond that will be dividing fractions into fractions. It doesn't really change his argument to say that we now have crop cycling and vertical hydroponic farms, because he is ultimately still right. These new technologies may have increased the ceiling but they still have quantifiable inputs and outputs in a closed system(earth). We might not be limited by land area and soil quality as much, but now we have other limitations like power consumption and water availability.

He wasn't predicting the end of the world by saying humans are going to grow unchecked like rabbits in a growth year and then die off when the famine sets in, he was suggesting we not just blindly forge on into the future with only hopes and good intentions to steer us. Sick of this guy getting ripped on for being a pessimist when most of his essay is actually pretty inspiring philosophy with an emphasis on the Reduce portion of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.