So, when I first read about this thing I was very, very hyped. As a Hive Mind player, it seemed like a godsent to finally be able to play a truly diplomatic Hive, a social creature who doesn't get ostracized just for existing.
Then I see the upkeep cost.
So uh... Where am I supposed to get a hold of consumer goods as a Hive Mind? Yes I can find the First League's homeworld, but that's only 1/5th of my games. Why would I wanna restart over and over until I begin in the right region to get an ecumenopolis just for the sole purpose of maintaining this megastructural monstrosity?
Buying consumer goods off of the marketplace is a bad idea for multiple reasons. First of all, you literally cant buy it from the internal market before a galactic one is established, because the internal market only allows you to trade what you can produce. Second, the price will skyrocket and make the upkeep of the Interstellar Assembly be in the thousands of energy credits in short order, which is literally insane for a megastructure's upkeep cost. I'd need a dozen dyson spheres just to keep the thing running.
Seems like a lot of stuff to go through just to be a diplomatic hive mind.
Speaking of diplomacy, why was the old charismatic species trait that gives bonus to opinion modifiers removed? (sorry, changed, since I know people are gonna be pedantic about it.) Was there a good reason for that?
tl;dr
Why can hive minds build the interstellar assembly?
Then I see the upkeep cost.
So uh... Where am I supposed to get a hold of consumer goods as a Hive Mind? Yes I can find the First League's homeworld, but that's only 1/5th of my games. Why would I wanna restart over and over until I begin in the right region to get an ecumenopolis just for the sole purpose of maintaining this megastructural monstrosity?
Buying consumer goods off of the marketplace is a bad idea for multiple reasons. First of all, you literally cant buy it from the internal market before a galactic one is established, because the internal market only allows you to trade what you can produce. Second, the price will skyrocket and make the upkeep of the Interstellar Assembly be in the thousands of energy credits in short order, which is literally insane for a megastructure's upkeep cost. I'd need a dozen dyson spheres just to keep the thing running.
Seems like a lot of stuff to go through just to be a diplomatic hive mind.
Speaking of diplomacy, why was the old charismatic species trait that gives bonus to opinion modifiers removed? (sorry, changed, since I know people are gonna be pedantic about it.) Was there a good reason for that?
tl;dr
Why can hive minds build the interstellar assembly?