Hyper Assimilation - farming out pops to be converted to cyborgs

[HydroAC]

When Driven Assimilators take over a planet it can take quite a while to turn the pops into cyborgs. During this time the planet suffers from low productivity and deviancy, which can be especially painful on very large worlds. I had one large world revolt with 15+ armies.

A solution is to move cyborg to the new planet and the to-be-assimilated pops to established worlds. This hyper-drives the assimilation since you get the up-to-4 assimilation at multiple planets instead of just one. Moreover, farming out the non-cyborgs to multiple planets and stabilizes the newly occupied planet much more quickly.

 

[Wolfgang I]

Unless it was patched gene modding pops with a template with the cyborg trait is more effective once you have decent society research income. You get such a template after assimilating the first pop of a species.

 

[faljen_isus]

by resettling you can offset most planetary penalties

 

[Princess Katherine]

Much easier to just build a colossus and spam shoot your own planets to assimilate them instantly. Does that work with synthetically ascended empires or just normal Machine Empires?

 

[InvisibleBison]

Much easier to just build a colossus and spam shoot your own planets to assimilate them instantly. Does that work with synthetically ascended empires or just normal Machine Empires?

That's easier once you have a colossus and assuming you are willing to limit your rate of expansion to the colossus's relatively slow movement speed.

 

[HydroAC]

Of course, moving your pops costs energy. So care (or a huge energy reserve) is needed...

 

[Astax]

Of course, moving your pops costs energy. So care (or a huge energy reserve) is needed...

And, of course, is a total micro pain in the arse.

 

[PG908]

It honestly seems as if a decision or edit would be useful: a tradeoff of a pile of resources for faster assimilation.

 

[#Tukuro]

Of course, moving your pops costs energy. So care (or a huge energy reserve) is needed...

You can use Nihilistic Acquisition instead: Instead of resettling, you just steal pops through bombardment and resettle them throughout the empire for free.

 

[HydroAC]

And, of course, is a total micro pain in the arse.

I agree to some extent. I transfer excess pops to the new planet to kick start it, and then move some of the to-be-assimilated pops to established planets for processing.

The interface for transferring pops makes this rather easy, and getting the Versatility/Operational Proxies Tradition lowers resettlement energy by 33% - which is nice.

The biggest issue is getting the pops productive and not having my assimilation of another culture grind to a halt because I have a few 60-pop worlds that are huge energy sinks for many years.

 

[Madbadger]

If you do this on a pre-ftl planet, make sure you don't resettle all the original pops--I did that in order to make the Stellar shock modifier go away, but it didn't. In order for it to to be removed before the 10 years are up, the last non-cyborg bio pop must be assimilated on the planet. I later confirmed this by moving in a not-yet-assimilated pop from a different planet, and the planetary modifier went away as soon as it assimilated.